Since Tony has put it out there, lets get his views on women in his own words
“The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.”
“Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?”
- From an address to the Adelaide University Democratic Club, 17 March 2004.
“The problem is backyard miscarriages if unscrupulous doctors prescribe these drugs for desperate women. “
“If an application did come to me, I would have to satisfy myself that compelent do ctors would administer the drug in safe circumstances to women who had fully considered the alternatives and understood the risks”
- On RU486, 6 February 2006.
“I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons”
- Quote from an undergraduate piece he wrote on feminism, featured in this GetUp ad that also highlights other quotes.
“You don’t have to be a Catholic to be troubled by the current abortion culture”
- From Sunday Profile, 12 June 2005.
On whether a national celibacy campaign would be helpful to counter the rise in teen sexual activity, sexual infections and pregnancies:
“I think that it’s very important that we empower people to reject this kind of rampant sensuality.”
- From Q&A, 19 March
Mr Speaker, we have a bizarre double standard; a bizarre double standard in this country where some-one who kills a pregnant woman’s baby is guilty of murder, but a woman who aborts an unborn baby is simply exercising choice.
- In Parliament (pdf), 15 Feb 2006.
“What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year….”
- Previously covered here at TDC, March 2010.
” I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak”
- From Q&A, 19 March 2009.
So Tony thinks women do not have an absolute right to say "no"
