Posted on 09/11/2009 7:26:33 PM PDT by Lorianne
A teenager faces seven years in prison after being ordered to stand trial for organising her own home abortion in the first such prosecution in Australia in over half a century.
see link to story in post below
Australia apparently doesn’t have the time honored state sponsored American abortion option?
practicing medicine without a license...
Abortion is legal (or at least decriminalised) across Australia. This girl is facing prosecution not for having an abortion, but for not having it through the ‘correct channels’.
OIC
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