Coalition Against the Decriminalisation of Abortion (Codoa) outted.

Sleuthing by journalist Kate Mannix has revealed that the Coalition Against the Decriminalisation of Abortion (Cadoa) has the same Dandenong address as Catch the Fire Ministries: Shop 30, Level 1 Arcade, 17-23 Langhorne St. Dandenong.

Catch the Fire Ministries, whose stated mission is to "take the good news of the gospel from town to town, city to city, state to state, country to country and proclaim the name of Jesus through prayer and action" is entitled to hold faith-based views about women's reproductive rights, and to seek to advance those views into law and policy in Australia. What they don't have a right to do, argues Dr Leslie Cannold in an article in both the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald is to deny those on the receiving end of the approximately $34,000 worth of anti-choice ads run on a single day in Victorian newspapers, "full, accurate and relevant information" about who they are. Argues Cannold, "credentials of individuals and organisations give us important clues about the expertise and motives of those seeking to influence us. They give us the chance to evaluate for ourselves whether an individual or organisation's contribution is influenced by memberships, affiliations or sources of funding and, if we believe it is, to adjust the weight we give to those views accordingly."