South Australian MP Puts Forward Bill to Tackle Number of Late-Term Abortions

Since South Australia’s Termination of Pregnancy Act 2021, 45 late-term abortions on healthy babies have been carried out for psychosocial reasons.

A pregnant woman holds her stomach on June 7, 2006. Ian Waldie/Getty Images

A South Australian (SA) politician is determined to lessen the number of pregnancies lost to late-term abortion with a bill intended to ensure babies aborted later than 27 weeks and six days survive.

Liberal Member of the Legislative Council, Ben Hood, introduced the Termination of Pregnancy (Terminations and Live Births) Amendment Bill 2024 (Bill) to the South Australian Parliament on Sept. 25.