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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?

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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
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