A bill to fully decriminalise abortion in South Australia has been introduced to the state's parliament.
When Adelaide woman Susanna — a pseudonym to protect her privacy — had an abortion in her 20s she didn’t know the procedure sat in South Australia’s criminal legislation.
“I called the pregnancy hotline and had an appointment with a doctor, and another doctor and then another appointment with a counsellor,” she said. The procedure is governed by the state’s Criminal Law Consolidation Act, which was amended in 1969 to enable abortion services in public and private hospitals, but many are pushing to decriminalise and improve access to abortion.Abortion is legal in South Australia if two doctors agree that a woman’s physical and/or mental health is endangered by pregnancy, or if there is a serious foetal abnormality.
"You really saw that this archetype of a young promiscuous female who is getting an abortion, is wrong."
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