It's part of women's health care, and it should be talked about so women get the best advice and don't feel they are marginalised or that their actions disgust people.

Well, good luck with that one, Doctor. It is humanly impossible not to be disgusted by the act of abortion. Further, it appears to be lost on this woman that it's possible to lovingly support women who are grieving from an abortion but to also feel disgust at the action of killing children. It is possible to separate the sinner from the sin. But when there's no sense of sin, then the legitimate shame that we are supposed to feel when we behave badly morphs into an overwhelming heaviness that either threatens to suffocate us or is fashioned into a weapon made ready to strike at the innocent. And in the hands of an unrepentant abortionist, that weapon is usually aimed at the pro-life community.

'We know it's a baby' 

Dr Portman is one of the growing number of abortion advocates who readily admit that abortion kills babies. [See our article, '16 times abortion advocates admitted that abortion kills babies.'] Having misled abortion-minded women for decades, by claiming at their businesses, in their literature and in public statements that a fetus is 'only tissue', a 'clump of cells', or 'not really alive', these advocates now more commonly state that, yes, it is a baby that is being killed, but the mother's human rights trump the those of her children.

On Wednesday 17 April I attended an event at QUT put on by the groups, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, and Health, Ethics and Law (HEAL)). The guest speaker was Cairns abortionist Professor Caroline de Costa and there was also a panel discussion involving Ms Tracy Pickett, Dr Glenn Gardener (a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist at the Mater hospital) and abortionist Dr Carol Portman, on the legal and ethical issues around implementing Queensland’s abortion reforms.

When the question time came I managed to get in first and asked the panel the following: “Just when was it conclusively established that abortion does not destroy the life of a child?” They all looked a bit stunned and hesitated to answer so I took the opportunity to point out that the Queensland Criminal Code, the Termination of Pregnancy Act 2018, and the new Queensland Human Rights Act 2019, all acknowledge that the entity carried by a pregnant woman is a “child”.

When Brisbane abortionist, Carol Portman, took the microphone she readily conceded that she does not dispute that abortion kills babies. She said that just that day she had a woman come in who wanted an abortion. Dr Portman said that the woman recognised that she was carrying a baby and that she herself, Dr Portman, recognised the woman was carrying a baby. Nevertheless Dr Portman was willing to give her the abortion.

None of the panel members expressed any contrary view to that of Dr Portman’s.

There were maybe 70 – 80 people present and none them appeared to blink an eyelid that there was a person sitting right in front of them who openly and unrepentantly confessed, on her own terms, to killing babies. Incredible. Sickening.

 

She has also admitted that she does abortions on women whom she thinks may be being coerced to have the abortion. [More on this below.]

'God gave me these gifts'

Dr Portman also claims to be a Christian and took part in an SBS program about contemporary Christians in Australia. As she told the ABC:

"How God may judge me is in the back of my mind. But I believe that I am doing the appropriate and right things, and I am hoping that's how I will be judged. I also believe that only God can judge me."

While it's true that only God can judge a person's heart and their ultimate destination after death, all people are called to rightly judge actions, and actually have an obligation to do so. If no actions were ever judged as being right or wrong, then our legal system would not exist, and rape, theft and fraud would not be crimes. This misrepresentation of the nature of judging has been co-opted by many progressive causes and is being effectively used to silence Christians. A bitter irony is now embedded in our culture which has no qualms when it comes to judging Christians - even to the point of considering it to be obligatory - but which also claims that it's 'not Christian' to judge.  And this failure to judge actions has led, among other things, to an explosion in the number of abortions, both within and outside marriages.

As a doctor, Carol Portman knows better than anyone how stressful and disorienting a crisis pregnancy can be, whether it was unplanned or is due to a feotal abnormality. She also believes she has a certain insight as to how common these situations are:

"I also wanted to make clear that you can be a person of faith — whether that's Christian, Jewish, Muslim, agnostic or anything else — and still find yourself in a circumstance where you might have to make a difficult decision. And I am there to support that decision, whatever it may be."

But Dr Portman is merely acknowledging what the pro-life community has known for years: that any woman, from any background, can find herself facing an unplanned pregnancy. The difference is that, while prolifers will offer a woman the concrete help she requires to continue her pregnancy, this medical doctor - who was trained to defend life at all costs - will attempt to dispose of the problems by disposing of one of her patients. The patient in the womb, that is.

How strange then, when Dr Portman claims she is not opposed to pro-lifers offering help to women outside abortion facilities. She said,

"If someone wants to stand there and ask, "Can I help you, do you need money, do you need food, what can we do so that you don't need to consider an abortion", those are great people. Fantastic. They are trying to support women by giving them options that may provide alternatives."

'They are being coerced'