DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise on this conscience vote, on behalf of myself, to support the first reading of this bill, but I note that all ACT MPs have adopted the same position of supporting this bill at the first reading. I want to also make a preliminary comment that I doubt there are many members in this House who can claim to have given as full-throated support for a woman's right to choose on this issue as I have. I was one of very few members of Parliament who voted for model A as recommended by the Law Commission. I believe that the law that this Parliament passed is actually too restrictive. I believe that not because I am pro-abortion, as some people who email me seem to think, but because I am pro-choice, and, more specifically, I do not believe it is practical for the State to improve matters around abortion—in fact, it is probably one of the most evil and futile and actually counter-productive things the Government can do, to deploy its apparatus to try and force women to take pregnancies to term against their will. It's completely nuts. So that is why I oppose prohibitions on abortion and I'm very happy to support this legislation today.