Family First is renewing calls for the Queensland LNP to immediately lift its parliamentary gag on MPs speaking about abortion.
At a time when yet more serious and disturbing allegations are emerging from inside Queensland's health system, silencing elected representatives is anti-democratic.
Multiple Queensland health workers have now come forward as whistleblowers. What they have revealed should chill every decent Australian.
A chilling image of dead "baby Samuel" (pictured), provided by a whistleblower, is circulating online.
Yet instead of transparency, accountability and open debate, the LNP has imposed a gag — preventing its own MPs from speaking freely in parliament about abortion.
The LNP did this in the wake of whistleblower Louise Adsett's harrowing testimony before Parliament in 2024 about her first hand experiences of watching babies born alive after abortions and left to die, sometimes gasping for breath for hours.
Parliament exists to scrutinise power, to give voice to the voiceless and to confront injustice. When politicians are muzzled on matters of life and death, democracy itself is diminished.
Family First believes Queenslanders deserve the truth — not secrecy, not political management, and not party discipline enforced at the expense of vulnerable children.
Family First encourages everyone to join a rally being held next Monday, February 9, to shine a light on the latest whistleblower revelations of babies being born alive in Queensland hospitals and left to die.
Monday 9 February
5.30–6.30pm
Speaker's Corner, outside Queensland Parliament
2A George Street, Brisbane
Here is a list of the LNP MPs, taken from Hansard, who in December 2024 voted to ban discussion on abortion in the Parliament for the entirety of this term:
AYES, 50: LNP, 50—Baillie, Barounis, Bates, Bennett, Bleijie, Boothman, Camm, Crandon, Crisafulli, Dalton, Dillon, Doolan, Dooley, Field, Frecklington, Gerber, Head, Hutton, Hunt, B. James, T. James, Janetzki, G. Kelly, Kempton, Kirkland, Krause, Langbroek, Last, Leahy, Lee, Lister, Mander, Marr, McDonald, Mickelberg, Minnikin, Molhoek, Morton, Nicholls, O'Connor, Perrett, Poole, Purdie, Rowan, Simpson, Stevens, Stoker, Watts, Vorster, Young.
Family First urges Queenslanders to contact these MPs and urge them to either overturn the gag or defy it in the wake of the latest revelations of babies being born alive and left to die.
