Yes, Moon Howler, I imagine there must be a lot of voters out there that want to redo the 'abortion debate'. 

The young man, btw, may be sincere in his beliefs. But he was catering to a bunch of fundamentalist dutch reform voters who have their own opinions on abortion, which is fair enough. However it seems they want to foist their opinions onto the rest of us, aren't they?

Pray tell, what would your response be if this were, say, a group of fundamentalist Muslims who where trying to foist their opinions on arranged marriages onto the rest of us?

Abortion is one of those issues where there are 'Competing Rights' and consequently there is no general consensus on the issue. 

Mr. Brown can deal with this young man after the by-election. It will be his problem to explain what he thinks and whether it is the same or different from this young man.