Doctor Who Fought COVID Jab Issue, Takes Aim at Victoria’s Abortion Laws

Suspended Melbourne Dr. Mark Hobart has spoken out against Victoria’s abortion laws.

Hobart is currently prevented from practising after he wrote medical exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccinations for his patients in 2021.

“You’ve got legal abortion up to the full term. It’s legal for any reason at all up to 24 weeks,” he told The Epoch Times.

“We’ve got really bad laws here. This law where they deny your conscience and you have to refer a patient for a treatment that you think is not in their best interest–that is a form of civil conscription in medical services,” he said.

“You’re basically directing a woman to kill her baby.”

Hobart said the thousands at the March for the Babies rally in Melbourne last month was proof that many want to see change.

According to the organisers, approximately 3,000 people showed up.

“When I was walking here I thought it wasn’t going to be a big crowd. I was prepared to be disappointed,” Hobart said.

“Then I saw all these people, and much younger. I thought, ‘This is very good.’”

Dr. Hobart was joined by firebrand Family First party member Bernie Finn.

“We’re losing 90,000 babies every year, and that is deplorable,” he told The Epoch Times.

“Close to 20,000 here in Victoria alone. It is unbelievable.

“What we’ve been looking at in the past 10 years is close to 2 million babies killed just in Victoria.

“If anybody is not upset about that, you’ve got to ask where their minds are.”

Fighting to Clear His Name

Meanwhile, Dr. Hobart is still working to clear his name.

“I was suspended in 2021, but mainly because I was writing medical exemptions for the COVID injection,” he said.

“Patients were terrified of the injection because by that stage, myocarditis had been identified as a possible side effect … and they were caught between having the injection or not having a job.”

Hobart worked out of his own practice in Sunshine North from 1985 to 2021.

A sign was posted on the window of his clinic reading:

“The Victorian government has banned patients from entering this surgery because Dr. Hobart refused to surrender your private and confidential patient files.”

He said he finally got granted a trial to appeal his long-term suspension at VCAT after four and a half years.

“I’m still waiting for my trial. My trial will be in April next year,” he said.

“It’s a trial that the medical board alleged that I’m a danger to the public, and that I’m guilty of professional misconduct.”

Hobart said not being able to practice as a general practitioner over the past four years took a big mental toll on him.

“It does get you down,” he said.

“Because I was working a lot, it was taking up six days a week.

“And I did enjoy my work. So when I stopped working, it was a big hole out of my life.”