Q&A tweets Labor's lines against Abbott The ABC's Q&A promotes tonight's show with this tweet, straight out of Labor's playbook to make Abbott seem a religious bigot: But click the link and you find it's to a very old story - from 2005: PM - Tuesday, 15 November , 2005 18:34:00 Reporter: Catherine McGrath DAVID BANNERMAN: The Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says he will not approve the use of the abortion pill RU-486 in Australia. Mr Abbott has told PM he's received advice from the Chief Medical Officer that RU-486 has a higher rate of "later adverse events" that could require urgent intervention, than surgical termination. Abbott's position today is very different from the one Q&A tweeted: Tony Abbott said he would not intervene as prime minister to try and prevent RU486 being provided on the PBS, despite his past opposition to the abortion drug. The Opposition Leader said he would not oppose expert advice from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. "When I was the health minister we invariably took the advice of our professional advisers when it came to the safety and efficacy of drugs," he said... I certainly have always said the whole issue here was to try and ensure that we empowered women to try to ensure that we gave women in a very difficult position all the support the needed to make what was for them the best possible choice. Thanks to reader Garth. The editors of The Age seem stuck in adolescence, still editing a student newspaper where all bosses are cruel plutocrats, all Liberals are lackeys and only the poor (and students) are noble: From the same edition, more peurile AbbottAbbottAbbott: