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CurrentPurposes
Part 1Preliminary
1 Purposes
The main purposes of this Act are—
(a)
to reform the law relating to abortion; and
(b)
to regulate health practitioners performing abortions; and
(c)
to amend the Crimes Act 1958—
(i)
to repeal the provisions relating to abortion; and
(ii)
to abolish the common law offences relating to abortion; and
(iii)
to make it an offence for an unqualified person to perform an abortion; and
(iv)
to amend the definition of serious injury to include the destruction of a foetus other than in the course of a medical procedure.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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