Published: October 16, 2018
Rosemary Kyburz suffered abuse and harassment from anti-abortionists in 1980 at the height of the Bjelke-Petersen era. She was far from alone
“Was I brave or stupid?” Rosemary Kyburz has mostly bitter memories of 1980, the year she became the villain of anti-abortionists in Queensland. They filled her mailbox with vile messages, used sanitary pads and polaroid pictures of penises. Someone shot her dog.
“They shot a rifle over my fence and got him in the back legs,” Kyburz, a former Liberal MP, told Guardian Australia. “He lived, I took him straight to the vet. There are some very fanatical people about abortion, they’re poisonous in that way. Righteous people will never change.”
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