Comments on: AusAid conservatives have blood on their hands

By: Patricia Weston

Patricia Weston — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Well said, Bernard. What’s wrong with Crikey subscribers who think like you? I rushed to see their comments and join the numerous pro-choice supporters who were bound to want their say. If they don’t come forward to express support in a forum like this what hope is there that they’ll get onto their local members about this issue. Are they all so complacent about their own ease of access to terminations that they they can’t imagine the agony of a mother already with too many mouths to feed risking death
rather than bring another into a world promising only starvation? And politicians on both sides claim a “conscience” vote on this issue!

By: Bernard Keane

Bernard Keane — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Patricia I admit I thought I’d be inundated with emails abusive and supportive and there’d be a flood of comments about this. Just goes to show you can never pick what will get people excited. Or at least, I can’t.

By: Marion

Marion — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Religious fundametalists control women by using their children as hostages. Women who try to assert their right make decisions about their own lives and their own bodies are forced into submision by pregnancy and the dependancy of their children.
I understand Brian Harradine fathered a large family but he wouldn’t have spent much of his own time fullfuilling the day to day chores that children bring to a household.
Priests and politicians who refuse to permit all women to plan the number of children to whom they give birth are abusing their power.

By: Venise Alstegren

Venise Alstegren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I must register a complaint about Bernard Keane's comment that the Catholic/politicians of Australia are medieval dellusionists. (if there is such a word) Au contraire their beliefs come from about 10,000 BC, when shepherds, bored out of their wits by the clear desert nights, would sit around inventing stories. It was all too much to imagine that the world was not created by a single vengeful God.: thus religion was born.

That the Catholic Church is continually forcing its olde worlde dictates, via the Jesuit trained politicians, men such as Tony Abbott , as was the charmer, Bartholomew Augustine Michael-call me Bob, Santamaria, to whom the Catholic Church used to grovel. We used to live in the same street as the school Loretto Convent. As soon as an election was immanent the good nuns would hit the street running, with their DLP signs and bill boards, soliciting votes.

Why the good sisters were so anxious to support candidates whose hostility to women was on a par with Islamic fundamentalism, is a mystery. Sheer ignorance I suppose. They had the most lovely dog who waited outside the side gates, to greet the school kids. He had, of course, been de-sexed. Once I asked the head nun, Sister Bernadette? I can't remember. Why it was OK to de-sex animals, but not humans. She was a very nice lady who took the comment in good heart.

Just as Australia heaved a sigh of relief when 'call me Bob' Santamaria kicked the bucket, along came Brian Harradine, followed by Tony Abbott, good Jesuits to a man. I suspect Nelson Eddy. Oops, Brendon Eddy, I'll get there in a minute. Brendan Nelson. Who was so quick to be anti-euthanasia to be another one. The names you mentioned Bernard are a chilling reminder that we Australians are, in fact, despite our much vaunted constitution, living in a rabid Catholic theocracy.

Bernard, a good Catholic never says that a child died, as a result of an abortion, No; that child becomes 'a poor innocent life'. Children die as a result of small pox, starvation and disease. But never because of an abortion. All those hypocritical and bent violin strings have to be plucked.That they die in misery, despair and squalor, together with their wretched mothers, is the most vile sentence to be handed out to women after the multiple rape and stoning sentence of women handed out by the mad mullahs of Islam.

If anyone imagines that Kevin Rudd, another self-righteous Bible basher will do anything to stand up to these depraved monsters, you have another think coming.

These comments of mine are a result of our beloved leader, being as big a hypocrite as his inglorious predecessor.

By: mike smith

mike smith — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Read Bernard’s comment again John. He didn’t say it would excite him, but possibly (or not) the readers.

Sentencing the unborn to a lifetime’s starvation is better, of course.

By: mike smith

mike smith — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

No, not too radical, rather emotive language, though, but you’ll no doubt “defend” that by claiming it’s an emotive subject.

By: JohnJames

JohnJames — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Getting excited about killing unborn children and parading that as aid for their mothers? Bernard, is there no end to your loveliness?

By: JohnJames

JohnJames — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

How about we feed them Mike instead of tearing them limb from limb in their mother’s womb! Bit too radical for you Mike?

By: Bernard Keane

Bernard Keane — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

JJ Jeans, your socialist tendencies are showing. Doling out free food to the starving won’t encourage them to become entrepreneurial and hard-working.