Here are some of the most memorable moments before MPs exercised their right to a conscience vote.

"It is very personal for me because, as an unwanted pregnancy, my voice might never have been heard here today. I stand here today as a survivor. If this law were present in those days, I would not be alive to speak on behalf of all the babies who have the right to live ... I feel that this bill we are debating today should be called 'killing Ted bill'."

"After the Premier's pleas for a respectful debate, it was both sad and sickening to see the vile images, extremist language and inaccuracies submitted to this process, presented to members' offices and circulated in the wider community ... During the last Parliament, I was a woman who had just had a miscarriage. I have faced this process as a pregnant woman."

"The vast majority of people of people who have contacted my office both for and against this bill are women. Women who oppose this bill - women who are mothers and sisters - have as much validity as those women who support the bill, and we should remember that. Many of them recognise the unborn as human beings and they view these laws as nothing short of legal killing."

"To say that 'I am against abortion' is to say that I believe in forcing a woman to stay pregnant. It is to say that you do not think a woman's body and life belong to her. It is to say that you know better than she does. Now, I know that as a man I cannot speak for a woman. I do not know better than they do what is right for them. I can say that I believe her though. I can say that I believe women. I believe any woman who says that she cannot afford children or cannot manage any more children than she already has or who does not want to have a child with her violent partner."

"Emails were sent to my office, some saying that they would no longer be my friend if I voted in a certain manner. I say to all people that I will vote on this bill in relation to my conscience. I will not accept the gratuitous advice of those who seem to have the opinion that I should vote in a certain set manner. I accept that this is an emotional bill. However, I put on the record that some parties on both sides of the debate need to reflect on their behaviour and tactics. They should be mature enough to conduct themselves otherwise and in some regards their actions and tactics were quite repulsive."

"One woman, in particular, told me about how she had to make the heartbreaking decision to terminate a wanted pregnancy because the fetus was diagnosed with a significant heart deformity at the morphology scan at 20 weeks. No doctors in Queensland would perform a termination, even though the fetus would not survive after birth, so she was required to travel to Canberra at significant expense to have a termination at 22 weeks."

"I shudder to think that a woman and perhaps her partner would consider terminating a life because it is the wrong sex, their relationship has dissolved, it is no longer convenient to have a baby or the mother has lost her job. To me, that is nothing short of murder."

"When I was very young - maybe around six or seven - I was so accustomed to family and friends staying with us that it did not phase me when someone new arrived at the house ... I had never seen this woman before and I have never seen her since ... I remember, however, that she had a terrible sadness about her. She cried a lot and even though she had all of us she seemed quite alone ... It is a story that formed my pro-choice position. She was staying at our house and travelling the next day to New South Wales to terminate a pregnancy because it was illegal in Queensland."

"My personal view is that abortion is a private matter that should be discussed and decided by the woman, her family and her doctor. For absolute clarity, I believe it should not be included in the Criminal Code ... I have concerns about other provision in the bill ... The issue of choice is complex and delicate enough without conflating it with another very complex issue: free speech."

"I do not support abortion. I do support women and their right to control their own reproductive health."

"How far away from potential hotspots of disagreements will parliaments in Australia be permitted to banish protesters? We start with 150 metres, but then with some conflict on the fringe there will be calls for larger, bigger exclusion zones - 500 metres, one kilometre. Where does it end?"

"Even after a person dies, unless they had clearly given their written consent to being an organ donor before they died, doctors cannot harvest their organs, even if it means another person will die without a transplant. If we as a society start saying that a fetus has the right to life that overrides the pregnant woman's right to give or deny consent and by law forces women to continue pregnancies against their will and without their consent, then effectively we would be giving a fetus more rights than an actual person ... we would be giving pregnant women less rights than a corpse."

"Seventeen years ago, I was in high school completing grade 12, and my now-wife and I were faced with the dilemma of a teenage pregnancy ... It would have been easier to abort. No one would ever have known ... But when I was faced with the stone cold facts that we would be facilitating the killing of our unborn son or daughter, that is something that I knew I would not be able to live with on my conscience for the rest of my life."

"I fundamentally believe that if men were capable of bearing children we would never be having this conversation. The right of women to control their own reproduction, their own bodies is such an important part of equality in our society."

"No convictions have ever been recorded in Queensland of a woman even though there have been thousands of abortions performed every year ... Safe termination of pregnancy is available now."

"The crime of terminating a pregnancy was added 119 years ago. No woman voted for it because women had no right to vote, let alone be elected. Few were encouraged into further education. Our mothers and grandmothers were forced out of work when they were married. We left all of those attitudes in the past. This law deserves to be left in the past as well."