I want to take a moment to acknowledge Dame Margaret Sparrow. You are an extraordinary New Zealander. For half of your life—more than 40 years—you have fought for abortion reform, and I want to acknowledge how hard that has been at times. I do acknowledge there have been 25,000 submissions in this House, of which a majority are opposed. But we cannot consider those submissions without considering the many silent voices: the many women who email me, who come up to me in airports, and who come up to us in constituency clinics who are too afraid to speak up publicly, for which the leading lights like Dame Margaret Sparrow have put their bodies literally on the line to fight for what I consider are basic equality and women's rights. 