Last week in Queensland we saw an extremely distressing scene where a young midwife, Louise Adsett, gave a disturbing account of what she claims are numerous examples of babies being born alive after a failed abortion and then discarded into plastic Petri dishes and left to die. These late-term abortions go under the tortuous euphemism of ‘social terminations at later gestations’. Ms Adsett gave several accounts of such deaths. ‘A mother made a decision to abort her baby at 21-plus weeks gestation. The process took all day and the baby was delivered in the early hours of the night shift. This baby moved vigorously. He gasped for breath and had a palpable heart rate. He was a good weight. The parents did not desire to see or hold this baby. Midwives and doctors were left holding this little life while welcoming other babies into the world. This baby boy fought for five hours before taking his final breath.’

Schoolchildren were once taught that  the Spartans would place weak or disabled babies overnight on the mountain to ensure survival of the fittest only. Several years ago a study published in the journal Hesperia argued that this was not the case, other than in rare circumstances. So even the ancient Greeks, it would appear, would view as barbaric what is alleged to be going on in certain Australian hospitals.

‘This is not an uncommon occurrence,’ said Ms Adsett, fighting back tears. ‘Recently a mother decided to abort her baby at 19 weeks. The midwife was distressed and shocked that the baby was alive. The baby was taken to the dirty pan room… covered and left to take its final breaths alone.’

So according to these allegations, a baby human fought alone for his life for five hours in the neonatal wing of a modern Australian hospital, surrounded by the most advanced medical equipment and the best doctors and nurses on the planet.

Abortion is of course a vexed topic, with the argument essentially boiling down to at what point does a mother’s rights over her own body take secondary place to the rights of the baby. It’s a sliding scale where religious beliefs, or lack of them, play a decisive role in where you place the marker. Added to which are debates surrounding disabilities or the health of the unborn child. But it is surely the height of depravity for any adult to wilfully allow a living, breathing and potentially viable child to die in a pan room, treated like hazardous waste.

Full credit to pro-life activist Dr Joanne Howe who posted Ms Adsett’s filmed testimony online. The video went viral, and the next day United Australia party Senator Ralph Babet introduced an urgency motion into the Australian parliament asking senators to vote on the importance of medical care for babies who survive abortions, based on a bill that he and fellow Senators Matt Canavan and Alex Antic first introduced in 2022. Had that bill passed back then it would have provided every Australian newborn a right to medical care, potentially saving many Australian babies’ lives.

As Senator Babet said, ‘In this country, every single week, at least one baby is born alive after a failed abortion. In some states and territories there is no legal requirement for that living human being to receive any medical care.’ The motion demanded babies born following a failed abortion receive normal medical comfort and care.

So how did our senators vote? Those guardians of morality who make our laws, who obsess over what pronouns to use, who insist we must at every possible opportunity show our respect to past and emerging indigenous leaders and revere traditional custodians, who get all hot and bothered if a man looks at his watch while they are lecturing us about climate change or the latest woke cause, who ban plastic straws to save the planet, who don’t seem particularly bothered by riotous mobs screaming ‘Gas the Jews’? How did these virtuous senators vote on the simple question of whether a newborn baby deserves care and comfort?

Unsurprisingly the Greens voted against the motion, as did most of the Labor party. There are no Teals in the Senate but one of them tweeted against the motion. Disgracefully, around 20 Liberal senators abstained or couldn’t be bothered attending the vote. Even more disgracefully, Simon Birmingham and Andrew Bragg (the two chief bedwetters in the Liberal party) voted against the motion as did two female Liberal senators, Jane Hume and Maria Kovacic.

Congratulations must go to the following senators who voted for the motion. And it is worth naming every one of them. Wendy Askew, Slade Brockman, Matt Canavan, Michaelia Cash, Jonathan Duniam, David Fawcett, Pauline Hanson, Sarah Henderson, Hollie Hughes, Susan McDonald, James McGrath, Bridget McKenzie, Andrew McLachlan, Jacinta Price, Matt O’Sullivan, Gerard Rennick, Malcolm Roberts and of course Ralph Babet. Alex Antic – whose wife had just given birth – also tweeted his support.

Outside the recent Democrat party convention in Chicago, the leftists were offering and performing free abortions and vasectomies, in some perverse celebration of the ‘coronation’ of Kamala Harris.

When asked to choose between ‘democracy’ or ‘abortion rights’, a typical young Democrat woman struggled but eventually chose the latter. Kamala Harris refers to abortion as ‘reproductive freedom’, which is yet another tortuous and somewhat Orwellian euphemism, and unbelievably when she boasted about it in her speech – about killing babies – the camera zoomed in on a little Democrat toddler cradled in a sling in her father’s arms.

That’s the modern left for you. Valiant warriors for female emancipation or infanticidal psychopaths? You choose.