Tony Abbott does not need to defend his comments in AWW

Federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, when asked in an interview with the Australian Women's Weekly, what advice he would give his three daughters on sex before marriage, he responded: "I would say to my daughters, if they were to ask me this question … it is the greatest gift you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don’t give it to someone lightly."

TONY Abbott’s advice to young women about not giving away their virginity lightly would confirm, frothed deputy prime minister, and childless Julia Gillard "the worst fears of Australian women" about him.
"Australian women don’t want to be told what to do by Tony Abbott. Australian women want to make their own choices, and they don’t want to be lectured to by Mr Abbott."

Gillard has somehow managed to extrapolate from Abbott’s response, that he was giving a sermon to all of womenkind on the repercussions of pre-marital sex, when in fact he was doing no such thing, and was actually giving a very reasonable and well-considered answer referring to, as most intelligent people would be able to tell, his own three daughters.

By saying that Abbott’s remarks “confirm the worst fears of Australian women” illustrates to me that Gillard is a gormless opportunist, whose ideologies and rampant perfidiousness pose a far greater threat to society than Tony Abbott ever would.

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