PREGNANCY COUNSELLING: Health Minister Abbott’s initiative attacked*

Tony Abbott has introduced a pregnancy counselling service that is in accordance with community wishes, writes John Morrissey.Can pregnancy counselling be value-neutral? The furore produced by the announcement that Catholic agencies were to be involved in the new Commonwealth-funded pregnancy counselling service gave rise to many spiteful attacks from friends of the abortion industry — and much uninformed debate.Once again, defenders of the unborn were put so much on the defensive that the…

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