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I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

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