The Melbourne diocese of the Anglican Church in Australia has recommended to a law reform commission that abortion should be legalised.

Archdeacon Alison Taylor said yesterday the church recognised there were circumstances, especially foetal abnormality, when abortion was "the least problematic solution".

Except for the dead baby.

Archdeacon Taylor went on to disavow the “pro-choice perspective” and offered other incoherent comments.

"If we are serious about reducing the number of abortions, paradoxically we shouldn't make it more difficult legally because we will go back to the days where poorer women resorted to underground means and corruption was rife through the police, medical practitioners and hospitals," she said.

"The knee-jerk reaction is to make the legislation very restrictive, but the way you reduce abortions is with contraception and sex education. The other thing is to support families — we need to be a pro-child society with a pro-child government."

A "pro-child" society and government with legal abortion?  Right!

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