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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Victorian upper house MP’s post about abortion described as ‘deplorable’

Upper house MP Bernie Finn
Upper house MP Bernie Finn has been criticised for a Facebook post in which he said he was ‘praying’ for abortion to be banned in Australia. Photograph: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

Victoria’s minister for women, Gabrielle Williams, has described a Facebook post by Liberal MP Bernie Finn as “deplorable” after he wrote that he was “praying” for abortion to be banned in Australia.

The post was published on the upper house MP’s Facebook page on Wednesday night, after the leak of a draft decision showing a majority of US supreme court justices may overturn Roe v Wade, which makes abortion a constitutional right.

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