Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe says she pressured South Australian MP to back out of voting deal

Liberal MLC Jing Lee told parliament she felt pressured after ‘unexpected encounter with a very persistent visitor’ but didn’t name Howe

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The anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe says she put pressure on the South Australian MP Jing Lee to back out of a voting deal on controversial “forced birth” legislation that proposed changes to the state’s abortion laws.

But Howe also said she was not certain Lee was referring to her when the Liberal MLC described an “external visitor” that made her feel “pressured”, “unsafe” and “vulnerable” on the night of the vote, 16 October.

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