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Currency Lad is keeping a keen eye on the fatuousness of our legislators in the RU-486 debate, and thinks he has a winner: the head of the Democrats Lyn Allison has described the passage through Senate of a bill effectively granting freer access to the abortifacient drug as a "win for women and their families".

I think I have a close second to that, from last year, when a minor scuffle occurred outside a Melbourne "fertility clinic". (It took me a while to realize, while watching the news report of this incident, that what they meant was "abortion clinic".) Approached for a quote, Democrats senator Natasha Stott-Despoja gravely remarked that "fertility clinics" needed to be the kind of places "women felt safe to attend with their families". Safer for the women, than for their families, perhaps. Or, to paraphrase the old cartoon, "Two go in, but only one comes out".