Women's protest 14 September 2019 Sydney: Abortion illegal in NSW: How can this be?

This is the truth, the whole truth and nowt boot truth...choice means choice

And I get to make my own decisions!

 1970s New Zealand a woman's right to choose and a men rarely taking any responsibility in contraception were hot topics. As were the religious zealots telling folk they were murderers fer even debating issue. So ter see this issue again dominating the NSW parliament is sad, retrogressive and disrespectful ter the rights of women ter choose. And I say choose. If yer don't want this then that is your right, boot don't impose religious values on oos secular folk. It is worth remembering in 1970s New Zealand it were well off, often religious families sending their daughters ter Australia fer a termination. As always with religious folk, the hypocrisy is mind blowing. I don't see many of those getting their kaks in a knot oot there working with abused children. And I do see some of the institutions they worship at being named and shamed at Royal Commissions and fighting the good fight ter not address abuse within their ranks. Not ter compensate the bairns who were abused by priests, pastors, religious homes, lay volunteers the list goes on. Belgo Geordie was one of those mites and never, ever received even acknowledgement, an apology or owt from yon Catholic Church. I was six years of age. Where is yer rage aboot that? And where I was incarcerated, St Vincents orphanage in Newcastle Upon Tyne, I were not a lone scrap of abused misery. Boot, I were told it were me own fault like fer being six with a 'doorty mind' and sick in the head ter make sooch stoof oop. Aye, tha explains the nightly nightmares oontil I were twelve, the oot of control teenager who hated authority, the adult with as mooch knowledge on wot were a health intimate relationship...aye, I have nee truck with religion as the salvation, or the righteousness believing it can impose choices on oother lives. Sort oot yer own hoose! Heal those yer almost destroyed before trying ter make women stay criminals fer terminations because all life is sanctified. Bollocks because yer don't practice what yer screech.

You go young uns, you're our future

Aye and again in this abortion debate it is the buffalo men of righteousness leading the charge on abortion legislation telling women what they can and can't do. Step back and let women decide. This is what emancipation and equality looks like. As ever, it is pleasing ter see te young uns oot in force. Boot this were sedate- a lot of conversations, women talking ten women young and old. Boot 1000 attended and there were menfolk there, the usual socialist alliance and left youth wanting me ter buy oop issues of Red Flag. Tall tree from CPSU were there as were a few other unionist women. As always I was there with me MUA support credentials, boot on me own. Come on me old commo mates, this is one to get out be counted on and give our silent support that the rights of women and our young women in particular continue to grow.

Unambigious

Conversations on the grass in the sun and lots of intergenerational presence

Blokey quiet support.

And across the road people being religiously reasonable...

Over the road were half a dozen protesters showing their usual churchy tolerance to diversity. Like many speakers said. If you don't want an abortion, then don't have one but don't impose your narrow view on others unless you walk the walk. Take a leaf from sum of the religious sisters addressing social injustice, poverty and the consequences of those religious and capitalist men screwing oop the world and creating a future of despair and subjugation for our daughters. Yer not pro-life (for life). Orthodox religion, based on fairy tales of paradise, is and has always been anti-life and pro suffering. Enough! We want change, not more of the same.