Fed: Danna Vale isolated on Muslim comments=2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2006
Fed: Danna Vale isolated on Muslim comments=2

Ms Vale later denied telling ABC radio that Muslims were having too many children.

"I was verballed this morning by the ABC," she later told Macquarie Radio.

"I would never say such a thing and I did not say it.

"I did say that Australians are aborting ourselves out of existence, and that is an
entirely different thing to say."

Ms Vale said a lot of people were concerned about the high rate of abortion and its side effects.

"It does have a ramification on our nationhood. You just can't get away from that," she said.

"It has moral, social and political ramifications."

Because of this, Ms Vale said a bureaucratic body should not be responsible for making
decisions about abortion drugs.

"The TGA does not have the capacity to actually deal with such things," she said.

"It should be right at the feet of the minister responsible, the elected member of parliament.

"This is a particular drug that can actually end a developing human life."

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KEYWORD: ABORTION VALE 2 CANBERRA (REOPENS)

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