Political debate on abortion has been turbocharged by conservative pushes to change the law in Queensland and South Australia.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price wants abortion on the national agenda as debate engulfs state politicsCoalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price wants abortion on the national agenda, declaring pregnancies ended after the first trimester are immoral and arguing late-stage abortions were akin to infanticide.
“Late term is anywhere past the trimester as far as I’m concerned … Full-term becomes infanticide and I cannot agree with that,” she told this masthead at the conservative ARC conference in Sydney. Protesters outside the South Australian parliament last week before a narrowly defeated bill to outlaw terminations after 27 weeks and six days.Price backed her Coalition colleagues, Matt Canavan and Alex Antic, who along with United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet have seized on the issue and tried to introduce “born alive” laws that protect fetuses when a woman seeks a late-term abortion.
Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton did not venture into the debate when asked by ABC radio on Tuesday whether Katter had “done the Coalition any favours” by resurfacing abortion as a political issue.
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