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By Michael Cook, published 27/10/2008Victoria's Abortion Law Reform Bill decriminalises abortion and forces doctors with conscientious objections to refer women to doctors who will do abortions.
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No longer will medical practitioners be left swinging in the breeze for following their best policy.
The administrator at Royal Womens Hospital was damaged
The medical team that performed the procedure had their careers damaged
Senator Julian McGauran acted inappropriately
Only when Senator McGauran gets married or gets a woman pregnant is he justified in commenting on what to do with the foetus he fathered. I guess we will wait a long time for that to happen.
At the moment women in country Victoria notably Bendigo and Ballarat are unable to access terminations unless they travel to Melbourne. What right have doctors to sit in judgement on a woman's fertility. I assume that the state government is happy to see doctors being forced to refer women on because when there are less unwanted babies there are less delinquent children and less children in state care which is a huge saving on the public purse.