An important petition that you should consider signing is one that is asking the Government to repeal the law that does not allow doctors to have freedom of conscience so they don't have to refer a woman to a doctor who will perform an abortion.

Click here to go to change.org to sign this petition.

A compelling article about sex selection and the role abortion plays.

Redefining Personhood

Daniel Farrugia, 2nd May 2013

"What defines a “you”?

Ultimately, the discussion regarding the rights and wrongs of abortion hangs on two questions:

    Do persons have the right to life?
    What defines a person?

The first question is actually more complicated than you think, and your gut reflex answer, if you’re reading this in a Western context, will actually be influenced by centuries of cultural conditioning that has its roots in Christianity. But that’s another post on its own, and this one is already longer than I’d hoped. But the second… well, do they look like a human being? Do they act a certain way? Possess certain qualities of thought and reaction that differentiate them from animals? Do they possess a particular genome? All of these definitions have their own problems, and I could give examples to prick holes in all of them, as I’m sure the careful reader could. Do they possess a human soul? At present, not a measurable quality, so not really helpful in this discussion unless you can be sure when it occurs. I recall a teacher at school, who justified abortion prior to the formation of a particular neural region in the developing foetus, as prior to this there was no nervous activity. I personally disagree with all of these, as the only person who has a right to define what a human being is, is our maker....."

Click here to read the full article.

Article by Cameron Spink

The front page article on today's mX (you know the little tabloid that is littered over Metro's trains each afternoon) discussed how “half of all pregnancies in Australia aren't planned, with young women sticking with the most unreliable forms of contraception”. The article goes on to state that the contraceptive pill and condoms were the preferable method of preventing pregnancy for women aged 18 to 23 yet women should be considering impants and Intra Uterine Devices as they are a more complete protection against getting pregnant.

But let us explore this so-called “more effective” method of using intrauterine devices. Here is a short introduction into how this contraceptive device works:

Article by Cameron Spink

Emily Timbor, over at Huffington Post, would have you believe that Christians have been misinterpreting John 15, which reads:

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

John 15:18-19 (ESV)

Timbor argues that Christians are playing the victim card by employing this verse and delighting in the hate they are receiving. She says the “world” referred to in this verse is actually in reference to the religious leaders and the Roman Government. I'll let Timbor elaborate herself:

“When you dive into that Barna Group study, or really any study that's come out in the past 50 years about the world's view of Christianity, you'll see that Christians aren't being hated because of the radical, faithful way they're following Christ. They're being hated because they've spent 2,000 years telling the world what Christ died for, but then doing the opposite. Often in His name.

It's time that Christians stop accepting this label of "hated" as a badge of pride, and start viewing it as a warning. It shouldn't be a chink in our armor against darkness. It should be a call to cause us to examine the weakness we have before we go into battle. Because it's true that if we're following Christ, we'll be hated. But it's important to pay attention to just who will be hating us -- and why.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emily-timbol/christians-arent-right-just-because-the-world-hates-them_b_3215031.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

Article by Cameron Spink

Proponents of pushing same-sex marriage are getting impatient. It appears that the conventional methods of undermining marriage, namely parliament and the courts, are going to fail them here in Australia for the time being. Instead, the idea of having a referendum on the issue has entered the fray. And it has done so from a very unlikely source. Independent MP Tony Windsor raised the suggestion to the press again this week. This is an interesting tactic by Windsor who is almost-surely out of office come September. Perhaps it is a last gasp attempt to sway voters to him?

Labor's Finance Minister, Penny Wong, doesn't like this idea. As a lesbian her note of caution is telling. The steps it takes to get a referendum passed are strenuous and, even if a majority of Australians voted for the referendum it would still likely face the same fate as the majority of attempts to change our Constitution.

This whole discussion raises a very sick reality. No longer do some people pushing same-sex marriage believe that it should be the role of parliamentarians to decide the role of marriage but many now believe it is completely appropriate for marriage to be determined by a general consensus in the population.

An excellent article begging the question whether the civil rights argument in the same-sex debate is valid.

Same-Sex Marriage as a Civil Right — Are Wrongs Rights?
Article by Albert Mohler, April 24th 2013

"From the very beginning, marriage was designed as the union of one man and one woman. Every human society has recognized this meaning of marriage, and all successful civil societies have honored, protected, and defended heterosexual marriage as the union that should govern human sexuality, reproduction, intimacy, and rearing of children.

Those pushing for the legalization of same-sex marriage have been tremendously successful in convincing many people—and several courts—of their argument that same-sex marriage is a civil right. But this is a confusion of categories that Christians cannot accept.

The argument for the legalization of same-sex marriage fails in terms of any constitutional logic that our nation’s founders would have conceived. Beyond this, faithful Christians cannot accept such arguments because an even greater authority—the authority of the Bible as the Word of God—binds us.