THE name of Queensland Premier David Crisafuli was yesterday repeatedly booed by a large pro-life crowd outside State Parliament.
Speakers at the rally accused him of running a protection racket for the abortion industry.
Crisafuli and his LNP backroom boys are dealing with a major public backlash after a nurse at Townsville University Hospital, risked her job and took a photo of a 16-week-old live-aborted boy named Samuel left to die, gasping for breath on a table.
It was sent to national anti-abortion campaigner Dr Joanna Howe who published it on her Facebook page. Crisafuli and his power-drunk minders, already in the process of banning pro-Palestinian slogans, then attempted to get Meta Australia to take the photo down. It was too late – the photograph is everywhere.
Crisafuli and his parliamentary gang will also today try to shut down North Queensland MP Robbie Katter who will attempt to do what MPs are elected and paid to do – table a bill in the parliament.
Katter was repeatedly cheered by the same crowd of several thousand people carrying anti-abortion placards and white balloons, when he said defending the unborn – and born – should be standard practice for a government.
The crowd broke into chants of “end the gag” – a reference to Crisafuli’s unlawful gag order on abortion debates in Parliament that he notably imposed on his first session in office.
But Crisafuli and his backroom boys have badly miscalculated the mood of the conservative electorate. Mr Katter reminded those present that their power was in their vote.
National anti-abortion campaigner Dr Joanna Howe, an Adelaide academic, says the mother of the 16-week-old Samuel was given deliberately induced labour. “(They) delivered him alive. Breathing. Moving. Sucking his thumb. No doctor came. No nurse held him. He died alone after 30 minutes,” she said.
“This wasn’t an accident, it was the plan. This is how Queensland hospitals kill babies when they can’t be injected with poison. They deliver them alive and leave them to die.
“Samuel is not alone. This is still happening to other babies in Queensland hospitals today.”
Dr Howe meanwhile has launched a fund-raising campaign. “One of our amazing donors has pledged to match every donation up to $25,000 for the next 24 hours (until 6.30pm Tuesday, February 10th) to fund our campaign to end this censorship.”
Funds raised will go towards:
– A new digital advertising campaign to show baby Samuel’s face to every Australian
– Leading a national campaign to introduce a federal law to protect babies like Samuel
– Campaigns and hard-hitting ads to expose politicians whose actions led to babies like Samuel being killed.