The story so far

In early 2002 a few friends from around Brisbane, Australia, met together to discuss whether the taking of non-violent direct action to stop abortion was the right and responsible thing to be doing. Each of the group had already been involved for many years in opposing abortion in a variety of ways.

The discussion that day led them to the conclusion that it was not sufficient to be just saying that abortion kills children. If that statement was correct, as they believed it was, then direct intervention to try and stop that killing needed to be taking place. Thus the group, Protect Life, was formed to carry out that specific objective.

On April 16 that year four people carried out the first sit-in in front of the doors of one of Brisbane’s four abortion death-houses. On subsequent days that week similar actions were conducted at the other places of death. In the years since then about 60 sit-ins have been held.