This Pro-Choice MP Is Being Targeted With Inaccurate Anti-Abortion Flyers
“It suggests the debate is not as well-informed as it could be.”
"As a father, son and husband" Queensland Labor MP and environment minister Steven Miles believes abortion should no longer be a crime in his state.
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"I think with this issue, like lots of others, society has moved on much faster than politicians have," Miles told BuzzFeed News.
He said will be voting in favour of a bill introduced by fellow MP Rob Pyne to decriminalise the procedure, provided it includes a more detailed "package" that addresses community concerns about gestational limits.
"Nobody wants to see the removal of abortion from the criminal code without an associated framework for how to manage abortion as a health issue and we want to see a framework that empowers women and medical professionals to deal with health issues as they arise."
When the father of three was dropping his kids off at school last month, other parents told him they had found flyers labelling him the "abortion MP" in their letterboxes.
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"These mums were disgusted [that the flyer was distributed] but my worry was whether an eight-year-old might have seen it and asked my eight-year-old about it," he said.
"It was distributed across my entire electorate."