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The Abortion Legislation Committee has delivered its much anticipated report on the Abortion Legislation Bill.
[…] The Select Committee received more than 25,000 submissions on the often divisive bill, which will remove the medical procedure from the Crimes Act.
In the report, the committee explicitly wanted to note that the bill in no way condones abortion being used for sex selection- a problem highlighted at the submission stage.
[…] National MP Agnes Loheni was on the Select Committee and in her minority report she laid out why she does not think the bill should progress and remove abortion for the Crimes Act.
She was most concerned about late term abortions of more than 20 weeks.
“The bar should be still higher in that post 20 week period, and post 20 weeks is 20 weeks up until the moment before birth.
“I know people get really uncomfortable with that, but at the end of the day, that is what the law will allow, there is no upper limit on that test,” she said.
Loheni also thought the committee adding the need to consult with another clinician before approving the procedure didn’t go far enough.
“There is actually no definition around ‘to consult with another practitioner, that could be a phone call, there is no accountability there,” she said.
[…] The report will now go the the Minister Andrew Little and cabinet for consideration
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