I've just done a bit of looking up myself actually, and in Australia by no means is abortion just blithely legal. There are criminal statutes governing abortion in most states - and very strict criteria for the most part.

Tasmania is the only state that does not have specific laws pertaining to late-term abortions, but in all other states it is illegal to perform abortions after a specific gestational age unless one or more doctors agree that continuation of the pregnancy would pose a severe risk to the health of the mother.

In fact the case in 1998 where the two Perth doctors were prosecuted (one of whom performed my abortion) was the herald of a change in abortion laws in WA. I'll also check with my brother (who is a lawyer) about the nitty-gritty of it, but it appears that Ms Tate's assertion that abortions are available to all and sundry whenever they feel like it is - like many of her other claims - ill-informed and factually incorrect.

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