Miles Lies - Dr Joanna Howe

Stop Miles Lies

Stop Miles Lies

Queensland Premier Steven Miles is the architect of abortion up to birth in Queensland. As Health Minister in 2018 when this new law was introduced, he told the parliament it would not result in more late-term abortions.

This is a lie. In just three years, the raw number of Queensland babies killed through late-term abortions has doubled.

Read the facts

In 2018, before the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018 was passed, there were 152 late-term abortions in Queensland.



In 2021, the year we have the most up-to-date data for, there were 304 babies killed through late-term abortion.


The reason late-term abortion is so horrific is because it kills a gestationally-viable baby who could survive if induced alive. A 2023 study of 29 babies born at 22 weeks found that with active intervention at birth these babies had a survival rate of 82.8%.


Data from Victoria and South Australia demonstrates that many of these babies killed at a late stage are perfectly healthy and do not have a condition that is incompatible with life.


Sign my open letter to Premier Steven Miles demanding he launch an inquiry into the doubling of late-term abortions in Queensland since the passage of his abortion up to birth law in 2018.

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Dear Premier Miles,

I am writing to you to ask for your urgent investigation into the extraordinary increase of late-term abortions in Queensland since the passing of the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018, at which time you said that abortions would not increase. 

Data collected from both before and after the Bill was passed shows that, not only has there been an increase, but this increase has been almost twofold. An inquiry into this substantial increase is needed because late-term abortions kill gestationally-viable preborn Australians.

Late-term abortion is the killing of the child in-utero via “feticide” and the inducing of labour to produce a child delivered vaginally, intact and stillborn. 

Data from South Australia and Victoria shows that between half and 80% of babies killed through late-term abortion were perfectly viable, healthy and did not have a “condition incompatible with life”. 

When you were Health Minister in 2018, you said that late-term abortions would not increase under the Bill. An investigation into this increase is needed to avoid more needless loss of life.

As a former Health Minister, and now as Premier, we are holding you to your word as this is a serious miscalculation during debate on a pivotal Bill.

We urge your urgent investigation into this matter.

Yours sincerely