Those who felt a surge of revulsion at Senator Stephen Fielding’s puerile comments (Wednesday 16 June) about women becoming pregnant and having an abortion to exploit the federal paid parental leave legislation should be asking the ALP why it bumped him into parliament.  The reactionary Family First man is only in parliament because the ALP inflated his vote with a grubby preference deal. It was never the intention of Victorian voters to put him in the senate.

Fielding’s most recent offerings on paid parental leave surely confirm that he knows nothing about women and doesn’t deserve to be in the parliament. Despite claiming to be pro-family he has supported anti-family IR legislation and offered not one progressive thought during his time in the Australian parliament. The ALP might be proud, but I doubt that Victorians feel the same way! Hopefully he'll he dealt with at election time.