Are abortionists a protected species?

Meanwhile, the Greens give Children by Choice the big tick. This is the same agency that referred Sarah to her near-death experience. The Greens attack community based non-profit groups, which have helped countless women, while letting abortionists who turn women’s insides inside out get off scot free.

Why is there such silence about Sood and others like her? Why is it that the activities of pregnancy support agencies deserve strict regulation while horrendous cases of maltreatment of women by abortion providers go un-noted?

A lot of time would have gone into putting Kerry's list together. But it seems it’s not worth adding an alert for women about abortion doctors who could injure them.

And if an abortion clinic advertises itself as providing safe abortion and it injures women, should it be allowed to keep advertising in the same way? Where’s the Bill on that?

If the Greens really think “Genuine Pregnancy Counselling [is] A Right For All Australian Women” why don’t they say anything about the deception and pressure applied to pregnant women by those with a vested financial interest in selling abortion?

Often there is no counselling at all, as came out in Senate committee hearings on the Stott Despoja bill. Many clinics provide a same day service - walk in, abort, walk out. No opportunity to explore issues likes relationship and financial pressures, to look at alternatives and sources of support.

Some clinics even charge women extra for counselling if they decide to keep the baby and not have it terminated. Others charge over the scheduled fee, telling women to bring “$200 to 300” cash to cover “the gap” when there is no gap.

Kate Mannix (who supports the bill) told the Senate committee that it is “insulting and degrading to mislead a person in a state of extreme distress into believing they will receive counselling which is impartial”. The women who contributed to my first book Giving Sorrow Words, agree.

Cathy from Sydney: “No options were presented to me. She [family planning counsellor] said I was stupid to get pregnant and as I was 18 and at university she ‘presumed I wanted an abortion’. Her negative and unsupportive attitude is something I will always remember ... I don’t remember making the decisions just that this is what I was expected to do …”

Sam from Melbourne, “I had to stumble through a system which was not supportive of my emotional needs … At no stage did [they] discuss the alternatives, or the procedure, possible effects or how I felt ….”

Pro choice campaigner Marie Coleman told the Senate committee “there are some absolutely shabby [termination services] that we could all be deeply mortified about …”

If only that mortification could be turned into action and she and her friends did something about exposing these clinics.

Anyone concerned about abuses of women’s health and lack of care, should look first at the anti-woman activities of abortion providers.