With both the major partiesallowing a conscience vote,three LNP members - Tim Nicholls,Jann Stuckey and Steve Minnikin - voted against the majority of their party colleaguesin supporting the bill on the night of October 17,2018.
However,on the eve of the vote,LNP Pine Rivers state electoral council (SEC) secretary Patrick Collins emailed the electorate offices of all LNP MPs about a motion which had passed unanimously at one of their meetings.
The resolution said:"Like all LNP members we believe our elected representatives must abide by our party's values at all times. The Pine Rivers SEC calls on the State Council to dis-endorse elected members of the LNP who support the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018."
Pine Rivers Labor MP Nikki Boyd wrote to Speaker Curtis Pitt to complain the email amounted to contempt because it attempted to intimidate LNP members and disadvantage them based on how they acted in Parliament.
"The motion passed by the LNP Pine Rivers SEC must be viewed in the context of comments made recently by Mr Gary Spence,the state president of the LNP,"Ms Boyd stated.
"At a LNP party room meeting[in] September 2018,Mr Spence told LNP members they could be putting themselves at risk of having their preselection to run again at the October 2020 state election overturned by the LNP state council."
Mr Collins apologised and said he was not threatening,instead merely informing LNP politicians about the motion and that he had requested a debate at the next state council.