‘Tony Abbott is right’

The
Catholic Weekly
Online

Sydney
4 April 2004

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‘Tony Abbott is right’

TIMELY: Mr Abbott’s comments deserve wider audience

By GREG SMITH

I’m amazed at the lack of care feminist commentators have for their fellow sisters.

One of them recently dismissed Health Minister Tony Abbott’s arguments about why 100,000 abortions annually is a national tragedy as being of “low calibre”.

She then used emotive terms in claiming to translate his intentions.

She said he meant that women make abortion decisions alone, treat the decisions lightly as if removing a “wart” and that they have abortions to disguise the sluttish behaviour that got them pregnant in the first place.

She further claimed that Mr Abbott argues that women who have abortions do it to avoid laying in the bed they made for themselves by becoming a mother, while those that have the baby are long-term financial burdens on the community, creating dysfunctional families.

Greg Smith, a Sydney barrister, is a former President of the NSW Right to Life Association