VICTORIAN Liberal MP Bernie Finn believes laws legalising abortion should be overturned because they allow pregnancies to be terminated “right up to the point of birth”.
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The Victorian member for the Western Metropolitan Region will visit Albury on Monday to argue Australia is home to the “worst” abortion laws in the western world.
He said he believed abortion equalled murder.
“We should accept that unborn children are people and they have the same rights as the rest of us,” he said.
Mr Finn said he supported pro-life groups who protest outside Albury’s abortion clinic.
As a young man he spent time demonstrating outside clinics in Melbourne and said he knew a number of women who had changed their minds because they were approached by anti-abortionists.
“That’s what I call a close call, when your mother is standing at the door of an abortion clinic,” Mr Finn said.
“If there was a place in Albury that people were taking three-month-old babies and chopping them up and there were people protesting outside would you look at them weirdly?”
He said he would also march on a Melbourne abortion clinic, which he termed an “abortionary”, when he protests the passing of Victoria’s Abortion Law Reform Act on October 8.
He founded the “March for the Babies” event when the reforms were legislated by the state’s parliament in 2008.
“Everyone has the right to protest, as long as they’re doing it in a peaceful way,” he said.
Mr Finn believes abortion should be banned altogether, although he acknowledged it was unlikely to ever happen.
“In my personal view the only circumstances that it’s OK is if continuing the pregnancy will endanger the life of the mother,” he said.
Mr Finn has been invited to speak at the Commercial Club by Life Network Australia at 7pm on Monday. He will also visit Deniliquin and Finley the following weekend.
