Abbott claims that his advice was meant for his fake son, not for a nation.

January 25 2010

CANBERRA: Tony Abbott has today moved to clarify his advice to women promoting the virtues of virginity as personal advice for his own daughters, rather than the nation.

The Opposition Leader claims that he was honestly answering questions he had been asked by the Australian Woman’s Weekly, and was speaking as a ‘parent, not a politician’.

In regards to a similar interview, this time with Zoo Magazine, Abbott puts in a similar claim. “This advice, too, was fatherly. But honestly, who tells their daughters the same things that they tell their sons? Sons don’t get pregnant, simple as that.”

Comments in Zoo Magazine were in stark contrast to his socially conservative “virginity is a gift’ angle. He urges young men to pursue their targets diligently, whatever they may be.

“How else will you know if she will make an, ahem, dutiful wife if you don’t force her to comply now?”

“As long as you adhere to the rules of the Catholic Church (who holds hypocrisy more sacred than death itself) and use contraception, you should avoid any embarrassment.”

In response to Julia Gillard’s criticism which said that Abbott was alienating young men and women, Abbott claimed that Gillard, not being a parent herself, cannot possibly understand the issues that a parent must face.

“She doesn’t understand how hard it is to have three daughters and a fake son,” Abbot says.

“The advice was not meant for a nation, it was advice for the son I thought I had. I was just trying to answer questions truthfully and honestly. I don’t think it has anything to do with politics.”

Upon being reminded that he is a politician, Abbott refused any further comment, on the grounds that anything he has to say is not meant for the nation anyway.