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    SURROGACY BILL BECOMES LAW – FEB 11TH 2010

    So what did Kids Rights Count have to say on the day this piece of cultural vandalism was approved by the Labor Government?

     “This act of legislative child abuse by the Labor Government will be neither forgotten nor forgiven at the next election.” 

    “We have told the Labor Party that this is something for which family groups will go to the barricades. This is an assault on the deepest relationship between a mother and child.”

    What, then, is to be done?

    First: please follow up with immediate action as advised by ACL’s Jim Wallace AM

    Quick action:

    • Write a short letter to the Courier Mail expressing outrage that children’s rights have been trampled by extending surrogacy to singles and homosexuals
    • Thank ALP MPs Margaret Keech (email: Albert@parliament.qld.gov.au ) and Michael Choi (email: Capalaba@parliament.qld.gov.au ) for their great courage in crossing the floor to vote against the surrogacy bill
    • If you live in a Labor electorate other than Michael Choi’s or Margaret Keech’s, please phone or e-mail to tell them you will not vote for them at the next election. MP’s details here. 
    •  Congratulate the LNP for its commitment to repeal this law should they win government. MP’s details here.

     Second: please donate to this campaign, to build it for the next phase – and ask concerned friends to do the same. Every dollar will be spent on the campaign to restore the fundamental rights of every Queensland child to enter this world with a mother and a father.  The Family Council of Queensland will manage all funds raised by donations.

     Third:  watch this website for news and developments in the campaign – which will last until the next election and beyond. Because Kids Rights Count, this issue will not be going away.

    Please do your democratic bit, because Kids Rights must Count at the next election, and the LNP Opposition must be encouraged to right this wrong.

    Please read on further info on emailing, and contacting your own MP – but make the above ‘quick action’ your priority in the first few days after the new law has been passed.

    Thanks from KRC – Friday 12thFeb 2009. 

    Stay with us on this one! We’re not going anywhere, and this issue is not going away…

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    What else can you do?

     INFORM YOURSELF!

    • Read the experts’ concerns with surrogacy
    • Listen to these medical, ethical and legal opinions on the dangers of surrogacy
    • Keep visiting us at this website – especially as the campaign builds up towards the next State election - and check for news on the issue here
    • Spread the word about this sinister new law, and why surrogacy – especially same-sex surrogacy – is wrong: as the opportunity arises, consider letters to the editor (of major papers, or church and community papers), talkback radio, and getting friends up to speed and involved! [use our social bookmarking links in the bottom right of this page!]

    TELL YOUR STATE MP & THE PREMIER (NICELY) WHAT YOU THINK (simply follow these links):

    • EMAIL your MP & the Premier (you can find your State member’s contact details HERE - for the email address click on the ‘electorate’ link) or RING your State MP’s office and ask to be put through. If you ring and the MP is not available, leave a message stating your opposition to the new law and ask that the MP phones you back. Be polite and to the point – and your input will be very carefully noted by the MP.
    • Best of all – VISIT your MP, perhaps with a group of friends, to express your concerns

    KEY POINTS TO MAKE TO YOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AND THE PREMIER

    • Surrogacy itself is inherently wrong, since it involves the premeditated intention to separate a child from his or her birth mother – a violation of nature that traumatises both the woman and the baby and defies our obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
    • Legalising surrogacy carries the risk of creating another “stolen generation”, like those children of adoption and artificial insemination who feel a deep unmet need to know their lost biological parents and possible siblings.
    • The Government’s determination to allow surrogacy for homosexual couples and single persons breaches the fundamental right of every child to at least begin life with a mother AND a father.
    • Research clearly shows that children develop best, both physically and emotionally, when they are reared in a stable heterosexual Mum and Dad family.
    • To deliberately set about to deprive a child of their mother and father is to subject the child to a social experiment, an experiment to which they are unable to consent.
    • This new law has become a Trojan horse for the normalisation of same-sex parenting – establishing in law the absurd proposition that two men or two women are just the same from a child’s perspective as a real mother and father.
    • The best interests of children are paramount and supersede any perceived ”right” same-sex couples and single persons may claim to parent children.
    • Eighty-six percent of Australians (in a recante Galay poll) believe that ideally, wherever possible, children should be raised by their biological mother and biological father.
    • This new law is unnecessary as children born as a result of a surrogacy arrangements can have their rights protected under law through amendments to the Succession Act and through parenting order applications under the existing Family Law Act.
    • Further, if Parliament wants to remove imprisonment as a penalty – and Kids Rights Count agrees with that, since it is not in the interests of a surrogate child to have her carers incarcerated – that can be done by simple amendment of the current surrogacy laws.
    • The Surrogacy Bill 2009 was not only wrong, but unnecessary. The new law must be radically amended, or fully repealed, under the next Government.

    DONATE to this campaign, to multiply our effectiveness – THANK YOU!

     

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