Minor Party MPs Seek Anti-Abortion Vote

Friday, July 20th, 2018

Katter’s Australian Party MPs will vote no to de-criminalising abortion in Queensland, and are calling on other parliamentarians to do the same.

It comes as the state Labor government prepares to introduce a bill to de-criminalise the procedure next month.

The minor party’s state leader Robbie Katter has emphasised that the stance is about protecting life, saying they’re against any changes to the law as it stands.

“We are of the view that those babies have a right to life,” says Mr Katter. “We spend so much time in parliament, say, on workplace health and safety legislation and all this other type of legislation trying to save lives, but everyone seems comfortable with the fact that we can give someone the right to kill these unborn babies.”

Mr Katter says it’s already easy to get an abortion but that he is very strongly against the weakening or compromising of the status quo.

Mr Katter and fellow KAP MPs Shane Knuth and Nick Dametto will oppose the new laws, set to be debated in October.