Exclusive: Conservative forces pose ‘genuine threats to the protections women have fought for and won’, Victoria’s premier says
Victorian premier Jacinta Allan has made her strongest abortion comments to date in an interview with Guardian Australia days before a Queensland election dominated by the issue.Victorian premier Jacinta Allan has made her strongest abortion comments to date in an interview with Guardian Australia days before a Queensland election dominated by the issue.
“I am deeply concerned that things that women, and men, have fought for for decades – in terms of strengthening the protections around women’s right to choose, women’s right to control their reproductive choices – is being used as a political tool,” she said. Abortion has been fully decriminalised in all Australian states and territories. Medical abortion is available until nine weeks’ gestation, while surgical abortion rules vary from 16 weeks in the Australian Capital Territory to 24 weeks inthat would give registered health practitioners a duty to “provide medical care and treatment to a person born as a result of a termination”.
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