Anti-abortionist denied visa to Australia

Bowerbird · Oct 4, 2015

When Australians see an opportunity for self-congratulation, we usually take it. And so it is that we regularly thump ourselves on the back for the fact that we have not imported two of America's most controversial, potentially lethal policies: broad access to guns and narrow access to healthcare.

But women have long been grateful for a third; that our politics here is not defined, warped and made uglier by hateful debates about abortion in the way America's is - where almost every election, every candidate, in some way deals with it.

Much of the relentlessness of the reproductive debates in the US is due to the likes of the prominent, pugilistic American anti-abortion campaigner Troy Newman, whose visa was denied by the Australian Government this week.

Federal Labor MP Terri Butler had written to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton arguing his visit should be cancelled in the interest of public safety. She wrote:

I am very concerned that his presence in Australia will incite some to harass and intimidate women accessing reproductive services and those professionals offering them at medical clinics.

There is a real risk that Mr Newman's conduct may cause discord within the community and disrupt the ability of women to access lawful reproductive medicine.

Newman has threatened to sue; legal issues may be now addressed in our High Court. But the cultural issues are stark.

First, inciting violence in the name of anything is wrong. Let's be clear: Mr Newman does call for people to be killed (and for laws to be changed so this can happen). In Their Blood Cries Out, he and his co-authors call for God's judgment - in this life - on those who bear "bloodguilt" for abortions
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-...tes-are-civil---lets-keep-it-that-way/6823348

We don't let holocaust deniers in either

AND we do not apologise for being stubborn about this

Though I am surprised there is not more outcry on the net about it

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