According to a preamble to the bill on Christensen’s website, “If they do not act to save the child they will face significant financial penalty and probable deregistration as a medical practitioner.”
The preamble explained that the bill sought to give effect “to international agreements with which Australia is a signatory, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”
“Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child dictates that, ‘State parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life,’” it said.
Christensen’s website said that in the state of Victoria in 2016, 33 of 310 babies aborted after 20 weeks were born alive. In the state of Queensland, it said, 204 babies were born alive after abortions between 2005 and 2015, but none appeared to have received life-saving medical care.
The Guardian newspaper reported on July 5 that the Australian Catholic Medical Association had asked its members to support the bill.
The association did not respond by press time to CNA’s request for comment on the bill.
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