One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts says he will push for party to adopt blanket abortion ban

One Nation should move to ban abortion entirely, Senator Malcolm Roberts has told a Brisbane Christian conference. His comments are at odds with those of the party’s leader Pauline Hanson, who told the National Press Club on Wednesday it was only “too late to have an abortion” after 20 weeks. The weekend Church and State summit heard how anti-abortion groups formed an alliance about two years ago to campaign for changes to the law and replace politicians who were not on board. An audience member asked Roberts why One Nation wasn’t aiming to “get rid of it altogether”. “That’s becoming my goal,” Roberts said . “That’s something I’ll be putting to the party. We need to reconsider some things [but] it will be a conscience vote.” One Nation’s current policy is to “seek every opportunity to roll back brutal and extreme abortion law”. Its new recruit Barnaby Joyce recently spoke at a rally against sex-selective abortion. Hanson has previously said she is not against abortion in the first trimester , which is up to 12 weeks’ gestation, earlier than the 20 weeks she nominated on Wednesday. “I’m not against … women that need to have an abortion for medical reasons, for some circumstance,” she said at the press club. “I’d rather educate women to use contraceptives than to go through an abortion. Too many abortions in this country, anyway.” One Nation did not respond to a request for policy clarity. …