"The Australian government is facing fierce criticism from pro-life advocates for a welfare policy that pays women up to $22,754 to abort their healthy babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy.The policy, administered through Centrelink, allows women who undergo late-term abortions to claim either a Stillborn Baby Payment of $4,327 or Parental Leave Pay totaling $22,754, provided the abortion is certified as a stillbirth.
This payment structure, originally designed to support families grieving a stillborn child, has been extended to cases where women intentionally kill health babies after 20 weeks, often by injecting the baby’s heart with potassium chloride or digoxin to stop it before inducing labor.
“Killing a baby after 20 weeks and up until birth entails injecting the baby’s heart with potassium chloride or digoxin and is followed by the early induction of labor of that now stillborn baby,” said Dr. Joanna Howe, a pro-life lawyer, in The Daily Declaration. “This is a deliberate and wilful act to kill a healthy baby very late in pregnancy and deliver them stillborn.”
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