Crisafulli wedged on abortion as Katter party flags vote to criminalise terminations
by Andrew Messenger and Ben Smee from World news | The Guardian on (#6RB5Y)
Exclusive: Robbie Katter says he will immediately sponsor a bill to amend the current legislation if the LNP is elected this month
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The Queensland crossbencher Robbie Katter says he will consider forcing a vote to recriminalise abortion if the Liberal National party wins government at this month's state election.
Katter says he will table legislation to wind back current laws with one option a clean repeal" of Labor's 2018 Termination of Pregnancy Act, a move that would return abortion to the 1899 criminal code.
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