Newman said, “The pro-abortion left in Australia does not want the people to hear the truth about the center for medical progress videos”.
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That’s because Newman and Operation Rescue, the prominent anti-abortion organisation he runs, use tactics several grades above the already nasty stuff we’re used to seeing from anti-abortion activists in Australia.
“I can confirm that my Department has cancelled the visa for Mr Troy Newman under Section 128 of the Migration Act”, Mr Dutton told News Corp Australia.
‘Mr Newman can appeal for a revocation of this decision and no further comment will be made during this appeal period’.
The Right to Life Australia website says Mr Newman was due to speak in Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns.
In the book he questions why doctors who perform abortions are not executed and asks why women or men who request the procedure are not charged with murder.
Labor’s Terri Butler wrote to Mr Dutton this week calling for Mr Newman to be banned from the country.
This afternoon Newman was removed from a United Airlines fight from Denver to Los Angeles and was told by a gate agent that the “Australian Embassy” had canceled his visa.
Labor MP Terri Butler welcomed the decision, saying it “sends a strong message to those who would seek to cause discord in the community, and disrupt the ability of women to access lawful reproductive medicine”.
“Anyone who advocates the execution of doctors or compares women who seek terminations to murderers clearly fails the Australian community’s character test”, she said in a statement.
Newman received the notification of his visa cancellation when he was on his way to Australia, and recorded the conversation on his phone. Going off a video he posted a few hours ago, featuring bored flight attendants laughing while he berates them and accuses them of being in hock to the Australian government, it seems he has not taken the news well. “What are you afraid of?” he said.
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Mr Newman’s group Operation Rescue is urging supporters to lobby the Australian embassy in Washington to overturn the decision.
