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A former health services commissioner who was among those behind the passage of a controversial abortion law <\/a>in the State of Victoria is complaining that the law is\u00a0“being thwarted at the service provision level.”\u00a0 Her concern focuses on women seeking late term abortions – apparently 16 through 24 weeks gestation and beyond.\u00a0 Physicians are reported to be willing to provide late term abortions only for eugenic reasons, but about 70 women annually ask for late term abortions for “psychosocial reasons.”\u00a0 Another factor reducing availability appears to be the need to give priority to devote health care resources to addressing illness and other health problems over “psychosocial” issues.\u00a0 One clinical advisor has suggested that this could be rectified by a regulation\u00a0requiring that abortion be given legal priority. [The Age<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former health services commissioner who was among those behind the passage of a controversial abortion law in the State of Victoria is complaining that the law is\u00a0“being thwarted at the service provision level.”\u00a0 Her concern focuses on women seeking late term abortions – apparently 16 through 24 weeks gestation and beyond.\u00a0 Physicians are reported … Continue reading “Australian physicians unwilling to provide late term psychosocial abortions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,30,9],"tags":[566,443],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-australia","category-news","tag-physicians","tag-victoria"],"yoast_head":"\r\nAustralian physicians unwilling to provide late term psychosocial abortions - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2489\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australian physicians unwilling to provide late term psychosocial abortions - 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