South Australia's upper house has narrowly voted down a proposal to amend abortion laws so that people who want to terminate their pregnancy after 28 weeks would be required to deliver their baby alive.
Liberal MP Ben Hood introduced amendments to the current abortion laws so people would be induced after 27 weeks and six days instead of receiving a termination.South Australia's upper house has narrowly voted down a proposal to amend abortion laws that would have required people wanting to terminate their pregnancy after 28 weeks to deliver their baby alive.
After around 3 hours of debate on Wednesday evening, the bill was defeated at the second reading stage just before 10pm — nine members voted in favour of the bill and 10 against."This bill is not based on evidence, it's insulting to women and girls and above all it's dangerous in how it plays politics with the health and wellbeing of women," Mr Maher said.
"You do not wake up one day and decide, 'I no longer want to be carrying this baby' at that late term and expect to turn up at a specialist clinic and say 'get this out of me' and have a specialist say 'OK, let's go,'" Ms Bonaros said."Unless and until we've walked in the shoes of any woman facing what these women face, then we have absolutely no right to cast judgement on them.
Tayla-Jane Jackson had a late-term abortion in 2023 with the agreement of two doctors. She does not want a private member's bill introduced by Liberal MLC Ben Hood to pass parliament. Liberal upper house MP Michelle Lensink helped to spearhead SA's termination of pregnancy laws through state parliament's upper house in 2021, and had been critical of the proposed amendments.
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