Labor MP Penny Sharpe’s Safe Access to Reproductive Health Clinics Bill was read in the upper house of the New South Wales parliament this morning, and debate adjourned until next week Tuesday. There are a number of profound ironies here worth mentioning.

The first irony is that Penny Sharpe should have the gall to claim that the Bill is “not a Left or Right issue” and supplement that statement with an allegation that those in the pro-life camp contribute to the supposed ‘coercion’ of women into not having an abortion.