As anambitioushealthminister under John Howard, Mr Abbott antagonised somewomen when hetried (and failed) to ban access to adrugallowing abortionwithoutsurgery.
Another Biltmore distinction: Most of the items on exhibit, from portraits by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent to the crystal, porcelain and Flemish tapestries, are original to the house and the family.