By George Christensen
On 15 October, the Victorian Labor government promised to make abortions free.
Labor wants you to pay for every abortion in Victoria. The procedure, the pills, the scans, even the travel for women from the regions.Thirty million dollars of your money, so that the killing of a child in the womb costs the person doing it nothing at all.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.
Within hours, the leader of the Victorian Liberals, Jess Wilson, said she’d do the same.
The woman who wants to be Liberal Premier on 28 November looked at Labor’s taxpayer-funded abortion scheme and copied it. Same day. No debate. Not a word to the pro-life voters the Liberals have relied on for decades.
She even added that “there would be “no changes to abortion laws under a government I lead. Full stop.”
The Victorian Liberals have never been a pro-life party. But they were the only major party where a pro-life Victorian could still vote with any hope of being heard. In a single afternoon, Jess Wilson took that away.
Let me be blunt about what Labor’s scheme will do: It will see many more Victorian babies being killed in the womb.
When something is free, you get more of it. Labor’s plan makes abortion before 16 weeks free at the point of service. It pays for travel costs for women from the regions. It widens the window for state-funded chemical abortions.
Every one of those measures has one outcome: more dead babies, and your taxes paying for every one of them.
The Liberals’ Jess Wilson matched the core of it, no out-of-pocket costs up to 16 weeks. So whoever wins on 28 November, abortions in Victoria become free, and every Victorian who believes a child in the womb is a human life will be forced to fund it.
Your conscience, overruled by your own tax bill. And the party pro-life voters have been loyal to for decades signed up without blinking.
Now ask yourself one question.
What did either party promise the mother who wants to keep her baby?
Nothing new. Not one dollar.
Yes, Victoria has public maternity care. But the state’s own health advice admits pregnant women still pay out of pocket for GP visits, scans and tests. Then there’s rent. Then there’s the cot, the pram, the nappies. Then there’s a landlord who doesn’t want a baby in the flat.
For a woman who is scared, broke and alone, both major parties have now made one path free and left every cost on the other. That isn’t choice. That’s a thumb on the scale, pressing down on the side of death.
Melbourne’s Archbishop, Peter Comensoli, said as much in the Herald Sun last month. He asked a simple question: if the government will pay for everything to end a pregnancy, will it pay the same to help a woman continue one?
Neither party has answered him. The Liberal leader didn’t even wait for the question to be asked.
Add your name to our petition now: Demand the Liberals’ Jess Wilson scrap her free abortions pledge.
Here is what I’m asking the Victorian Liberal leader to do, and it’s not complicated.
Withdraw the pledge. Say publicly that a Liberal government will not spend taxpayers’ money making abortions free in Victoria. That’s it.
She doesn’t need a new policy. She needs to un-say one sentence she rushed out in a single afternoon to avoid a bad headline.
Here’s why this has to happen right now.
Victorians vote on 28 November. Liberal candidates are locking in their positions. Preference deals are being done. The Liberal copy of Labor’s scheme is currently costing the party nothing, because the Liberals are betting pro-life voters will grumble and then vote for them anyway.
I want to prove them wrong, and I need your signature to do it.
Here’s the plan. I’ll gather as many signatures as this petition can carry and deliver them to Jess Wilson’s office on Friday 13 November, fifteen days before the election. I’ll make sure every Liberal and National candidate in a marginal seat knows exactly how many pro-life Victorians signed, and that we’re watching how they respond.
That turns a free headline into an electoral problem for the Liberals. And it gives Jess Wilson an easy way out: withdraw it.
If she does, I’ll say so publicly. If she digs in, I’ll make sure every pro-life voter in Victoria knows it before polling day.
But picture what happens if you and I stay quiet.
Taxpayer-funded abortions become the settled position of both major parties. The next expansion gets sold as routine healthcare. And every Liberal strategist in the country learns the lesson: pro-life voters can be ignored at zero cost.
The delivery is on 13 November. The election is on 28 November. After that, your leverage is gone for four years.
