In 2016-7 former Labor MP and independent Rob Pyne proposed radical liberalisation of Queensland’s abortion laws as a private member’s bill. The public uproar about the harms of such a change led to the referral of the issue to the Queensland Law Reform Commission. Some opponents of abortion believed that the process would result in, at the very least, the moderation of Queensland’s approach taken to the issue.
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