Choose Life Australia

However, the parent of the 5-year-old, compliant with government direction, is not sacrificing self at all, but is risking the life of the child instead, including to that uncertain and unknown future.

Covid-19 Vaccination, Moral Injury, and The Fracture of Conscience (as at 9 December 2021). Moral injury is an event that violates deeply held moral beliefs or values. It can cause a profound psychological distress that results from actions, or lack of them, which deeply impacts one’s moral code (Williamson, Murphy and Greenberg, 2020). It may […]

Upholding the Honour and Integrity of the Medical Profession
For the Future of Medicine – Reflections on 56 years
My Colours to the Mast. Will you join me?

Upholding the Honour and Integrity of the Medical Profession For the Future of Medicine – Reflections on 56 years My Colours to the Mast. Will you join me?     The Passion of Medicine. Which was it? the thrill of the chase of the elusive diagnosis? the triumph of solving the puzzle? the entrée into people’s lives? […]

The Independence of the medical profession is critical – belief in practice as enshrined in the international covenants of the UDHR and ICCPR, that cannot be overridden even in national emergency . The future of medicine is at stake. When Medicine falls, so does society.

Good Medicine is the heart and soul of Good Medical Practice… When Medicine falls, so does society.
When Medicine loses its heart and soul, society is the poorer.

Infringement of conscience is a serious challenge facing modern medicine. Medical codes of conduct must never be subject to degradation by government. Governments may legislate to permit certain practices or procedures but governments must never force doctors to violate their conscience by compulsory engagement in such practices or procedures.”

Humanity’s greatest crisis, medicine’s greatest challenge, society’s greatest risk – our future is under attack in three critical areas with interlocking themes of risks to freedom of speech, belief and conscience, the manipulation of life and death, and the re-shaping of Australian society by minority group pressure.

• Does it matter that governments legislate for evil?
• Does it matter if governments compel evil?
• Are these matters “defining issues” as to how I should vote for politicians or parties that have supported these matters? (And, if not, then what is a defining issue?)
• Is there a role for this church and for the body of Christ as a whole?
• Will these matters make a difference in my ordinary way of life? Will they make any difference as to how I spend my spare time?
• Will they make a difference as to my future directions, even occupation?

A Christmas present recommendation The other day I saw and immediately bought the newly published Bonhoeffer – Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxos who also wrote Amazing Grace the story of William Wilberforce. In my eagerness to have a 5 minute squiz I thumbed over to the chapter on “The Church and the Jewish […]