With an important case on medical abortion in the Cairns Magistrates’ Court, there is an urgent need for reform of Queensland’s archaic and repressive abortion laws, writes Dr Caroline de Costa.
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Cairns
The abortion law reform saga continues in Queensland
We have been forced not to resume the practice of medical abortion in Cairns until there is a clear legal framework in which we can care for our patients, and in which we can be certain that those patients, as well as ourselves, do not risk prosecution, write Caroline de Costa and Michael Carrette.
Legal issues lead Cairns doctors to cease medical abortion
Doctors Caroline de Costa and Michael Carrette explain why they will no longer be offering medical abortion services in Far North Queensland.
