INDEPENDENT MP and key powerbroker Geoff Shaw wants radical changes to Victoria's abortion laws but the government says it has no plans to amend them.
Mr Shaw, whose vote the government relies on to stay in power, wants to outlaw gender-selection abortions and for doctors to resuscitate babies who survive abortion attempts, the Herald Sun reports.
"We've got some of the worst, probably the second or third worst, abortion laws in the world," Mr Shaw told Fairfax Radio on Thursday.
But Premier Denis Napthine said he had not seen any proposal from Mr Shaw on the matter.
"Until and when we see a proposal I won't comment," he told reporters.
Mr Shaw had indicated over a number of months he had concerns with abortion laws.
But Dr Napthine said the issue had been debated at length by the parliament and the government had no intention to change abortion laws.
"People were given a conscience vote, the law was passed by the Victorian parliament and this government has no intention of introducing any legislation on this matter," he said.
Mr Shaw said he is uncertain what strategy he will use to try to affect a conscience vote on the explosive issue, six months out from a state election.
"If I do choose to bring in a bill, I would have to go through the procedure of trying to persuade it to be put on the government's business program," he said.
He conceded having the issue debated in parliament would be difficult after the premier made it clear neither he nor any member of his government would change the legislation.
Opposition leader Daniel Andrews labelled Mr Shaw as "off the reservation yet again" and said Labor would not support any debate on rewriting abortion laws.
"The Labor party will have no part, no part whatsoever in a dirty grubby deal between Geoff Shaw and Denis Napthine to change the abortion law in our state," Mr Andrews told reporters.
"We're having absolutely no involvement in that because it's wrong, it is fundamentally wrong."
Mr Andrews said "no one that quite frankly has any decency" would be involved in the proposed changes.
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