The following is a letter which Denise Cameron, the President of Pro-Life Victoria, wrote to the press before a bill was unfortunately passed by the Victorian Parliament outlawing protests outside the state’s abortion clinics.

Prince William and his wife the Duchess of Cambridge have announced the name of their newborn baby girl and it’s a good one- befitting a little girl who is one of the most anticipated babies not only in Britain but around the world. Royal officials say Britain’s newborn princess has been named Princess Charlotte Diana…

The current uncertainty concerning the continuity of Tony Abbott’s prime ministership has raised the distinct and welcome possibility of Malcolm Turnbull succeeding him to that high office. Should there be a Turnbull prime ministerial succession then hopefully the leadership uncertainty which has bedevilled Australia since the Howard government’s demise in 2007 will end.

The crisis situation in Iraq has inevitably resulted in the assertion that it was inherently wrong for the United States led coalition in 2003 to have liberated that nation from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny. This analysis has in turn led to an implicit, if not actual, opposition to the United States taking military action via air support for the Maliki government in Baghdad against the brutal fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

Newspaper reports consistently describe the Victorian Independent MP Geoff Shaw, who has announced his intention to introduce a bill to outlaw partial-birth abortions, gender selection abortions, oblige doctors to administer pain killers to babies undergoing abortions, resuscitate any who survive, provide better information to mothers contemplating abortion and restore to doctors their right of conscientious objection, as a “maverick”.