“I want to make it clear I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion. There would not be anyone under 50 in this country who has not come up close and personal against this issue. I accept that resolutions made in church often wilt under the hot breath of passion – I think I know that as well as any person in this chamber – but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation’s legacy of unutterable shame.”

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“I want to make it clear I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion. There would not be anyone under 50 in this country who has not come up close and personal against this issue. I accept that resolutions made in church often wilt under the hot breath of passion – I think I know that as well as any person in this chamber – but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation’s legacy of unutterable shame.”

Quoted in "Abortion a Badge of Liberation Says Abbott" on www.theage.com.au, Feb 16, 2006.