Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is Australian comedian Geraldine Hickey. To be fair, I didn’t know of her until a viewer pointed out one of her posts—thank you. This is her Instagram where she writes: “Hello, I’m a comedian and I like Birds.” I don’t know if she means the feathered kind or women, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
By the looks of it, she was on the Australian version of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in early 2025. But the post we’re actually interested in is this one in the middle. She wrote: “Took my wife out for fancy dinner to celebrate her doing 300 abortions for the year!”—punctuated with a single exclamation mark.
This wasn’t just a one-off. She published this same post across her social media including Threads and Facebook. She clearly was making sure this ‘milestone’ didn’t go unnoticed.
Her wife, Catherine Bateman, a Nurse Practitioner, also posted about this on LinkedIn. She wrote: “300!!!!!”—with five exclamation marks—“I just completed my 300th medical abortion prescription consult for 2025!”
The excitement is palpable.
Just to be clear, she wasn’t performing surgical abortions. As a Nurse Practitioner, she was facilitating the prescribing of abortion medications.
But here the happy couple are clinking glasses to a “job well done.” 300 human beings never to see the light of day.
My take on this is simple: A person of reasonable mind would never celebrate the loss of life, even if they agree that an abortion is a perfectly ethical procedure.
It would be like a palliative care physician celebrating 300 terminal sedations. Of course, a person of reasonable mind would naturally feel that is not appropriate. Terminal sedation is viewed as a medical necessity rather than some kind of ‘achievement’ to be cheered.
Or it would be like a trauma surgeon celebrating 300 amputations—except, of course, the amputees lived to tell the tale. The loss of a limb is considered a serious and sombre clinical event. Publicly celebrating the volume of amputations is a direct violation of the professional duty to treat every patient’s case with gravity rather than as a statistical trophy.
That makes me think that these two ladies aren’t particularly secure with their stance. They feel that in order to justify their crusade, they have to act in a celebratory tone and post it all over social media. I think they know that what they’re doing is at least morally questionable, but in order to mask their cognitive dissonance, they play up abortions as some kind of ‘fun’ or empowering lifestyle choice.
Abbie Chatfield, another Australian “celebrity,” didn’t mince words when she shared her view on abortion. She said: “I love abortion. I think if you’re pro-choice, you should love the medical procedure… If you say you are pro-choice, yet you go, ‘I’m not going to say that I love it or celebrate it’, then you aren’t quite there… Because realistically, you still have a lot of shame around abortion, and you still see some sort of loss from an abortion.”
Again, it would be like saying you ‘love’ amputations. That you should be celebrating the medical procedure of cutting off limbs. But I should point out the obvious: an amputation is a procedure designed to help someone survive. An abortion is a procedure designed to ensure someone doesn’t.
Usually, reasonable people and medical professionals celebrate lives saved or illnesses prevented, not body counts. Ethics clearly isn’t this couple’s strong suit.
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Allégro by Emmit Fenn
This is Australian comedian Geraldine Hickey. To be fair, I didn’t know of her until a viewer pointed out one of her posts—thank you. This is her Instagram where she writes: “Hello, I’m a comedian and I like Birds.” I don’t know if she means the feathered kind or women, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
By the looks of it, she was on the Australian version of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! in early 2025. But the post we’re actually interested in is this one in the middle. She wrote: “Took my wife out for fancy dinner to celebrate her doing 300 abortions for the year!”—punctuated with a single exclamation mark.
This wasn’t just a one-off. She published this same post across her social media including Threads and Facebook. She clearly was making sure this ‘milestone’ didn’t go unnoticed.
Her wife, Catherine Bateman, a Nurse Practitioner, also posted about this on LinkedIn. She wrote: “300!!!!!”—with five exclamation marks—“I just completed my 300th medical abortion prescription consult for 2025!”
The excitement is palpable.
Just to be clear, she wasn’t performing surgical abortions. As a Nurse Practitioner, she was facilitating the prescribing of abortion medications.
But here the happy couple are clinking glasses to a “job well done.” 300 human beings never to see the light of day.
My take on this is simple: A person of reasonable mind would never celebrate the loss of life, even if they agree that an abortion is a perfectly ethical procedure.
It would be like a palliative care physician celebrating 300 terminal sedations. Of course, a person of reasonable mind would naturally feel that is not appropriate. Terminal sedation is viewed as a medical necessity rather than some kind of ‘achievement’ to be cheered.
Or it would be like a trauma surgeon celebrating 300 amputations—except, of course, the amputees lived to tell the tale. The loss of a limb is considered a serious and sombre clinical event. Publicly celebrating the volume of amputations is a direct violation of the professional duty to treat every patient’s case with gravity rather than as a statistical trophy.
That makes me think that these two ladies aren’t particularly secure with their stance. They feel that in order to justify their crusade, they have to act in a celebratory tone and post it all over social media. I think they know that what they’re doing is at least morally questionable, but in order to mask their cognitive dissonance, they play up abortions as some kind of ‘fun’ or empowering lifestyle choice.
Abbie Chatfield, another Australian “celebrity,” didn’t mince words when she shared her view on abortion. She said: “I love abortion. I think if you’re pro-choice, you should love the medical procedure… If you say you are pro-choice, yet you go, ‘I’m not going to say that I love it or celebrate it’, then you aren’t quite there… Because realistically, you still have a lot of shame around abortion, and you still see some sort of loss from an abortion.”
Again, it would be like saying you ‘love’ amputations. That you should be celebrating the medical procedure of cutting off limbs. But I should point out the obvious: an amputation is a procedure designed to help someone survive. An abortion is a procedure designed to ensure someone doesn’t.
Usually, reasonable people and medical professionals celebrate lives saved or illnesses prevented, not body counts. Ethics clearly isn’t this couple’s strong suit.
MUSIC
Allégro by Emmit Fenn
