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Abortion: time to clarify Australia’s confusing laws

Selena R Ewing
Med J Aust 2005; 182 (2): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06591.x
Published online: 17 January 2005

To the Editor: de Crespigny and Savulescu1 criticise legal and media attention given to the abortion of a 32-week fetus with suspected dwarfism in a case in which the expectant mother had become suicidal. At the same time, they appeal to populism to support legislative change in favour of easier access to late-term abortion.

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