To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives in the Parliament assembled.

The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth:

That every abortion kills an unborn human baby.

That the right to life of all humans is the most fundamental and essential of all human rights.

That in 1988/89 the Federal Government paid $6.9 million from taxpayers' funds for 64,788 abortions under Medicare Items 6469 and 274/275 alone.

That in the same year Federal Government grants to the States indirectly financed the deliberate killing of thousands of other unborn babies in State Public Hospitals.

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Australian Parliament will carry out its duty to protect the right to life of Australian babies by supporting the Abortion Funding Abolition Bill 1989 and by all other means at its disposal.

And your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.