In 2019, before she was pre-selected to represent the Liberal National Party in the seat of Rockhampton, Donna Kirkland posted on social media ‘abortion is the greatest human rights abuse of our time’.

She is, of course, right.

How could any humane person watch Queensland midwife Louise Adsett’s testimony to a recent Parliamentary inquiry into late-term abortion and not agree?

Adsett wept as she described babies in Queensland hospitals being born alive after the abortion attempts on their lives and then left, gasping for breath sometimes for hours, to die.

At least one baby per week in Australia dies this way.

But LNP leader David...