Dr Leslie Cannold, a founder of Reproductive Choice Australia, told a forum in Albury on September 23 that abortion does not need a special law. It should be administered no differently than a knee replacement, she said.
“We don’t have a special tonsil law, we don’t have a knee replacement law or a liver cancer law, and we don’t need a particular law governing abortion either.” Abortion should be regulated like all other medical procedures, she said.
Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi has introduced a bill to decriminalise abortion in NSW and enact exclusion zones at clinics to ban anti-abortion protesters. It will be launched on September 28.
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