Free Vote on RU-486 in Australia

Austrialian parliament will be holding a free vote on RU-486 in parliament later this week.

You've got the Catholic-former-seminarian kind of member of parliament on one hand (no direct quotes from him...):

The debate is looking at whether to free up the use of an abortion pill, which is effectively controlled at the moment by Australia's health minister who is Catholic and opposes abortion. . . Two years ago, Australia's Health Minister Tony Abbott, a former Catholic seminarian, said the nation needed a debate on abortion.

And then you've got the feminist-it's-my-body kind of member of parliament on the other hand:

"It is galling listening to the men, and it is mostly men, who have such contempt for women who terminate unwanted pregnancies, who have neither compassion nor understanding of the huge and, for many, daunting task of taking an embryo the size of a grain of rice to adulthood," she said earlier."

Most things worth doing in life are daunting. It's a daunting task to take a newborn weighing a few pounds to adulthood, yet does that justify infanticide?

While I'm not a man, personally I don't have contempt for women who terminate 'unwanted' pregnancies but rather deep and profound sorrow.