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

One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, who appeared at the Church and State summit in Brisbane along with Pauline Hanson, has said his party should move to ban abortion entirely. Photograph: AAP View image in fullscreen One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, who appeared at the Church and State summit in Brisbane along with Pauline Hanson, has said his party should move to ban abortion entirely. Photograph: AAP One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts says he will push for party to adopt blanket abortion ban Senator tells Brisbane Christian conference the party needs to ‘reconsider some things’ on abortion, contradicting Pauline Hanson’s position Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast 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 wants to roll back abortion rights in Australia – and is emboldening activists seeking US-style laws Read more 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. At the weekend summit Roberts said he had learned more about abortion from the Church and State founder, Dave Pellowe, who describes himself as a “writer and speaker on Christian engagement in the public square, specialising in what Almighty God says about complex social issues”. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Roberts was in the front row as Pellowe told the crowd women who committed “child sacrifice” were condemned by God and guilty of murder and that “feminism has had a demonic influence on the culture that has normalised, medicalised, subsidised and industrialised child sacrifice”. “My job here this morning is not to condemn women who have killed their children, for God already does that,” Pellowe said. “Every murderer knows they’re g