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niyad

(113,303 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:57 PM Oct 2015

Australia Deports Anti-Abortion Extremist Troy Newman

(we don't want him, either!)


Australia Deports Anti-Abortion Extremist Troy Newman

Anti-abortion extremist Troy Newman has been deported from Australia after an appeal to remain in the country failed to convince the High Court.




Newman was scheduled to speak at a 10-day Right To Life Australia event, but was detained in Denver, Colorado after Immigration Minister Peter Dutton cancelled his visa citing as grounds for revocation Newman’s prior history of promoting violence against abortion providers and their patients. Ignoring Dutton’s order, Newman rerouted his trip using a different airline and was able to touch down in Melbourne on Thursday where he was detained by officials. Newman’s attorneys immediately filed an emergency injunction to halt his deportation, but a High Court judge denied the bid and Newman departed Australia Friday morning.

Prior to Newman’s visit, several Australian politicians expressed fear of increased harassment and violence against women and women’s healthcare providers with his presence in the country, including Australia’s Labor MP, Terri Butler, who wrote a letter to Immigration Minister Dutton warning Newman could inspire “threats or the commission of acts of violence” during his stay.

“I am most concerned that Mr. Newman’s call for abortionists to be executed could lead to threats or the commission of acts of violence against women and medical professionals,” said Terri Butler, Australia’s Labor MP, in a statement. “To think he is above the law gives us insight into the sort of person we are dealing with. We don’t welcome extremists into our country and we don’t welcome extremism.”

Despite his claims that he “has never advocated violence,” Newman, president of Operation Rescue and Center for Medical Progress board member wrote in a 2000 tome called Their Blood Cries Out, “In addition to our personal guilt in abortion, the United States government has abrogated its responsibility to properly deal with the blood-guilty. This responsibility rightly involves executing convicted murderers, including abortionists, for their crimes in order to expunge bloodguilt from the land and people.”
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http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/10/06/australia-deports-anti-abortion-extremist-troy-newman/

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Australia Deports Anti-Abortion Extremist Troy Newman (Original Post) niyad Oct 2015 OP
Good for them! Kath1 Oct 2015 #1
love your images. niyad Oct 2015 #2
Thank you, my sister! Kath1 Oct 2015 #3
all the little fundies around here would freak--have to find them as necklaces! niyad Oct 2015 #5
I would LOVE to find the necklace! Kath1 Oct 2015 #7
not exactly the same, but found this: niyad Oct 2015 #9
Close enough! Kath1 Oct 2015 #10
again, not exact: niyad Oct 2015 #11
and here: niyad Oct 2015 #12
I love that one! Kath1 Oct 2015 #13
it would certainly make heads explode up at fungus (aka, "focus on the family") niyad Oct 2015 #14
And that is always a good thing! Kath1 Oct 2015 #15
it is one of my pleasures here in fundieville. niyad Oct 2015 #16
Good for you! Kath1 Oct 2015 #17
I can think of a few places he'd LOVE to go jmowreader Oct 2015 #4
I know where I would LIKE him to go. niyad Oct 2015 #6
Same here. Kath1 Oct 2015 #8

Kath1

(4,309 posts)
17. Good for you!
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 10:10 PM
Oct 2015

Thank you. We need it.
(See my response to your "GOP outrage" post, which was an EXCELLENT post!)

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
4. I can think of a few places he'd LOVE to go
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 10:08 PM
Oct 2015

Unfortunately, he probably doesn't speak Spanish so El Salvador is out.

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