Abortion has been decriminalized in New South Wales, Australia
Abortion has now been decriminalized in almost all of Australia after the country's most populous state voted to overturn a 119-year-old law.
On Thursday, lawmakers in New South Wales -- which is home to Sydney -- voted to pass a bill that decriminalizes abortion and makes terminations available to people who are less than 22 weeks pregnant.Previously,"unlawful abortion" was listed in the Crimes Act and carried a possible penalty of 10 years in prison for a woman who administered her own abortion.
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