Three weeks ago, Parliament voted decisively to reject a bill that would have decriminalised abortion. Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council voted 25 to 14 against the Abortion Law Reform (Miscellaneous Acts Amendment) Bill put forward by Greens MLC Mehreen Faruqi. This extreme bill would have removed all legal restrictions on abortion and replaced them with abortion on demand until birth, with no framework to avoid sex-selective or disability-selective abortion.
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