{"id":2780,"date":"2013-04-05T05:42:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T12:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2018-03-08T20:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:52:54","slug":"australian-medical-association-submission-to-the-tasmanian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"Australian Medical Association Submission to the Tasmanian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>On the law governing termination of pregnancy<\/h2>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>The Tasmanian branch of the Australian Medical Association expressed qualified support for statutory legalization of abortion in a submission to the Tasmanian state government concerning its proposed <a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/inetpub\/wwwroot\/project\/archive\/documents\/2013-03-Tasmania-draft.pdf\">Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill 2013<\/a>.\u00a0 However, the Association also emphasized its opposition to parts of the proposed bill that would suppress freedom of conscience among physicians.\u00a0 Those parts of the submission are reproduced below. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.orglaw\/commentary\/legal053.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00a0more <\/a>. . .]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"New frontiers in repressing dissent\" href=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/?p=2435\" target=\"_blank\">New frontiers in repressing dissent<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the law governing termination of pregnancy Introduction The Tasmanian branch of the Australian Medical Association expressed qualified support for statutory legalization of abortion in a submission to the Tasmanian state government concerning its proposed Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill 2013.\u00a0 However, the Association also emphasized its opposition to parts of the proposed bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Medical Association Submission to the Tasmanian Government&#8221;<\/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":[46,30,8,9],"tags":[521,566,3393],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-australia","category-legal-commentary","category-news","tag-australian-medical-association","tag-physicians","tag-tasmania-australia"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Australian Medical Association Submission to the Tasmanian Government - 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