“It is necessary to become courageously ‘pro-woman,’ promoting a choice that is truly in favour of women.” Blessed John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, 1995.

The acceptance and legalisation of the medical termination of pregnancy remains one of the most complex and divided ethical issues in our contemporary society.  This topic raises questions about the status of unborn human life, the situations in which women choose abortion, pregnancy “reductions”, chemical abortifacients and alternatives to termination.

For additional information see:

•  Abortion Fact Sheet
•  Beginning the Journey - The Wonder of Life Within
•  Changing Hearts & Finding New Alternatives 
•  Defending Conscience and Protecting Life
•  Healing the Broken Hearted - Sowing the Seeds of Hope after Abortion
•  Pro-Woman and Pro-Life
•  Questions & Answers on RU486
•  The Myth of the Perfect Child
•  The Unborn Child
•  Vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted human fetuses

Downloadable resources sourced primarily from the Archdiocese of Melbourne Life, Marriage & Family Office, the Life Marriage & Family Centre of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and the Queensland Bioethics Centre.