The long awaited report of the Victorian Law Reform Commision was released yesterday and recommends a total liberalisation as well as a decriminalisation of abortion. To read the report go to the VLRC web site and follow the links from News: http://www.lawreform.vic.gov.au/
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Subject: Pro-Choice Victoria Victoria’s abortion law’s are about to change. Make your voice heard! The Victorian Law Reform Commission will present options for changing the law on the 28th March 2008. The government may use one of these as a basis for decriminalising abortion. But not all decriminalisation is the same. Some ways of changing the law will [...] Victoria’s new Premier John Brumby has asked the Victorian Law Reform Commission to advise him, by March 2008, on how to reform the state’s laws on abortion.� In Victoria, as in New South Wales, abortion is still outlawed under the Crimes Act although judicial precedents allow abortions to occur.� The previous premier, Steve Bracks, had [...] Led by the National Abortion Rights Action League, NARAL, pro choice Americans are being urged to get their members of Congress to support a new Freedom of Choice Act that would go some way to reversing the impact of the recent Supreme court decision. NARAL’s open letter starts: A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court, reconfigured by [...] Read the decision (includes the dissenting decision of four justices) The US Supreme Court late last week upheld a law that bans so-called ‘partial birth’ abortions, a decision seen as the first step in the reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision that makes abortion legal in the US. The decision has important ramifications for women’s right to choose. Senator Hillary Clinton was [...] |
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