Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Justice): Thank you, Madam Chair. I expect we're going to have a good, intense scrutiny of this bill this afternoon, so I want to just make some opening remarks. There are a number of Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs). I won't comment in detail on each of them, but I just wanted to make a number of opening points. First of all, the way the debate has been conducted over this bill so far has, I think, been constructive. I know that there are very strong views held and there are members of the House—like many members of the public—who are opposed in principle to the idea of abortions, but that is not what this bill is about. We have a legal framework in place in this country for women to get an abortion. Roughly 13,000 abortions are carried out in New Zealand today, and this bill is about changing that framework, and the objective of it is to make it safer for women—to make it safer for women by enabling women to get access to an abortion earlier than is currently the case, because the average time in which women in New Zealand get an abortion is one of the longest in the OECD. So that is what that is about.