Media Release
28th
February 2011
By Trevor Grace
Church leaders and the bloody abortion industry
The abortion industry in Australia is a morally corrupt and evil industry. It is a massive billion dollar a year business which profits by distorting and
hiding the truth about abortion. More precisely, by providing false and
misleading counselling to distressed mothers, and ripping little babies out of their mothers’ womb or dropping them in a bucket of formaldehyde - and finally collecting their broken bodies and incinerating them like garbage. This is the abortion industry exposed: bloody, callous and shocking. So what do we say then, when we find prominent church leaders managing a company that is involved in such a horrific industry? Because this is exactly what has occurred.
In early February this year, 2011, a Melbourne woman accidently discovered that leaders in one of the largest Churches in Australia: City Life Church Melbourne, were actually Board Members of a clinical waste company called SteriHealth. No problem here, well, until she found out that the company was also profiteering from servicing abortion clinics - which included the collecting and incinerating of aborted babies. For this woman (and other Christians) this is just something that Christians, especially Church leaders, are not involved with.
This woman approached the Chairman of SteriHealth Lorenzo Coppa and the
Senior Minister of City Life Church Mark Conner raising the situation the best way she could. She also told a handful of people who likewise contacted the Chairman and the Senior Minister of City Life Church.
What ensued from there was that several of the company’s Board Members
admitted SteriHealth was indeed involved with servicing a number of places that did abortions; although they could not say how many. They were quick to add, however, that they were not aware of the situation until this woman had brought it to their attention. The Chairman of the company, and others, gave assurances that they would take the necessary steps for SteriHealth to get out of contracts which had anything to do with aborted babies; after all, and in their words, “We’re prolife.”
It was interesting to note that even the Australian Christian Lobby waded in to defend SteriHealth and its Board Members. For example, when a former Family First candidate tried to talk to ACL’s Director Jim Wallace about SteriHealth and its link to ACL, Mr Wallace was not prepared to speak to this person. However, another ACL’s spokesperson did respond to the former candidate and (in a rather firm manner) pointed out, “These are reputable and upstanding Christian men ... you cannot make accusations …” But no one was making accusations, merely stating what was already common knowledge at this stage, that SteriHealth was involved with servicing places which performed abortions. The Chairman of the company admitted it. The CEO admitted it. And even one of his ACL bosses admitted it.
Whether this kind of defence or nervousness had anything to do with the fact that SteriHealth regularly placed full page advertisements in the Australian Christian Lobby’s quarterly magazine: View Point, is hard to know. Just as it is hard to know whether ACL have received large donations from people heavily associated with SteriHealth, as the Family First Party has. That is, evidently Family First has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a number of the company’s leading shareholders, employees and CEO.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/court-case-taints-party/story-e6frf7l6-1225882015068 , etc.)
It should also be mentioned, that ACL’s Victorian Director (evidently an unofficial spokesperson for SteriHealth) phoned a woman in Adelaide on Thursday the 10 of February 2011; no doubt because he had been notified that she had become aware of the situation. He insisted SteriHealth was getting out of its involvement with servicing abortion clinics, and, in short, suggested that she and others had no further reason to be worried over the matter.
Not convinced, the very next day the woman sent an email to SteriHealth head
office in Victoria. Pretending that she was going to set up an abortion clinic in
Beenleigh, Queensland, she asked:
Will your company SteriHealth pick up all medical waste from our facility?
This includes aborted babies, body tissue, body fluids and so forth?
The Victorian office quickly forwarded the email onto a SteriHealth sales
representative in Queensland, who responded enthusiastically on the same day:
“We are able to offer you the services you require. We have a range of bins
for collection ranging from a 20L pail to a 240L clinical bins. … Beenleigh is
practically down the road from where our treatment facility and office is
located.”
When this was pointed out to the ACL representative and SteriHealth Board
Members, they accused this woman as “acting in an unethical manner”. Never
mind that she was merely trying to find out, for her own peace of mind, whether SteriHealth was still willing to service abortion clinics. And never mind how the email response from SteriHealth confirmed her fears.
Apart from this, another matter arose at the same time, which raised further
suspicion to an already series of troubling events. It was noticed that David
McCracken Ministries and City Life Church had removed Board Members and
Board of Elders from their website pages who were Board Members of SteriHealth, or associated with the company. When this rather unusual situation had been raised, it was said to have been “coincidental”.
So what do we make of all this? At the very least SteriHealth was involved in something it should not have been apart of: the abortion industry. That is, servicing businesses that were/are performing abortions, and collecting the aborted babies and disposing of them in incinerators. This is horrific, particularly as the Board Members of the company are all professing Christians; furthermore, church leaders.
Whilst it is commendable, since this has come to the Board Members’ attention, that they are doing something about the situation and attempting to change their company’s practices, it does nevertheless raise some serious questions. Perhaps the main one being of how a group of Board Members of a clinical waste company did not know what their full line of business was, especially when their sales staff apparently did? Moreover, if any business collected clinical waste from a thousand places, wouldn’t it be obvious to find out exactly what it is you are actually collecting, so you can ascertain what is profitable and what is not?
Nevertheless, most would agree that the Board Members (comprising of Christian leaders) now have a moral responsibility - even a moral obligation, to tell their shareholders and all people associated with the company that SteriHealth has been involved in the abortion industry and profiteering from aborted babies. This is regardless of whether the company had done this inadvertently.
Others, such as myself, further believe that because these Board Members are
Church Elders, or in high leadership roles, they have a duty to set an example of confessing to the Christian body what their company has done. Why? Because any major involvement with the abortion industry by a company that is managed and directed by church leaders is of grave concern, not only for their immediate churches, but also for the broader Christian community.
Hopefully this will be the case, particularly as SteriHealth Board Members are
“reputable and upstanding Christian men” in prominent churches.
This media release was written and authorised by Trevor Grace
Mr Grace can be contacted on 0432862865
Or through http://www.humanrightsforunbornchildren.com/
PLEASE NOTE: As of Friday 11th February and Monday 14th
2011, a number of Board Members and Board of Elders from David McCracken Ministries and City Life Church were removed. Compare the new web pages below to the previous web pages (see PDFs attachments) -- which highlight changes in leadership.
http://www.davidmccracken.org/Board-Members.php
http://www.citylifechurch.com/church/elders.aspx
http://www.sterihealth.com.au/ click on main tab Investor Centre and then scroll to Board
** Trevor Grace is a South Australian High School teacher and has been actively involved in the prolife
movement for over 10 years.
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