Where Australian states are up to in decriminalising abortion
- Written by Erica Millar, Interdisciplinary gender scholar, University of Adelaide
Campaigns continue to have abortion decriminalised across Australia. Peter Rae/AAP
Abortion is common, safe, and the only criminalised listed medical procedure in Australia due to an archaic, flawed piece of legislation inherited from Victorian England.
Despite campaigns to decriminalise abortion, progress has been slow, and patchy across states....
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