Right to Life Australia
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Right to Life Australia is an organisation which advocates pro-life positions in issues such as abortion, euthanasia and human embryo research.
Right to Life was started in 1973 by Margaret Tighe as Right to Life Victoria. It became Right to Life Australia in 2001. It is non-denominational, non-party political and defends the civil right to life. Its main objective is to provide an organisational structure for collective citizen action to maintain the right to life from conception until natural death. Since the 1970s and 1980s Right to Life has run political campaigns and public demonstrations against abortion, euthanasia and destructive human embryonic experimentation. [1] Their members also lobby politicians, give talks to achools and community groups and support women facing crisis pregnancies.
Right to Life Australia organises an annual conference and a newsletter every two months. They fund Pregnancy Counselling Australia which provides free pregnancy counselling, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with trained counsellors. Margaret Tighe is Vice-President and Dr John James is President. Right to Life Australia was closely involved in the passing of the Euthanasia Bill 1996 and the Research Involving Human Embryos Bill 2002. In 2005 Right to Life made a statement on the Maria Korp case.
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- ^ Lyle Allan (2010). The Right to Life campaigned in Victoria in the 2011 election in 9 seats, in 7 pro-abortion politicians were replaced with pro-life politicians. “Margaret Tighe. The most powerful woman in Victoria,” in Tasmanian Times, 30 November 2011. http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/weblog/article/margaret-tighe.-the-most-powerful-woman-in-victoria/
