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It is now almost certain medical abortions through telehealth using the Emergency Response Act 2020
are on the agenda to be legalized next week, possibly as early as Monday.

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It is extraordinary that the Attorney-General’s office would make such a statement (if the quote from InDaily is correct) without having first disclosed this intent to the Parliament. The Attorney-General must explain to South Australians what plans have been put in place to override state abortion laws, when these plans were decided and why Parliament was not told of these plans.

It is unconscionable in the midst of a conscience debate on abortion laws, an improving COVID-19 situation and the proven risks to women’s health of remote consumption of abortion drugs, that the SA government would seek to change these laws by using the COVID-19 emergency as a pretext.

The State Co-ordinator should reject any proposal to override state abortion laws under his emergency powers.

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Further information as to why the MEDICAL ABORTION PILL – RU486/MS 2STEP is so dangerous to women’s health —

The TGA’s official position with regard to the clinical and safety information of mifepristone + misoprostol (MS-2 Step) is detailed in the current approved Product Information (PI) for MS-2 Step:

PRODUCT INFORMATION FOR MS-2STEP:
until follow-up has taken place, the woman remains close to a facility where she can be treated at any moment in case of severe or prolonged bleeding.
Refer to SPECIAL WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR USE.

• The risk is too high and counterproductive: 2016 stats for SA Pregnancy Outcomes showed that medical abortion accounted for 82% of all abortion complications. 86% of these required a subsequent medical procedure, hence taking up vitally-needed medical facilities and healthcare workers away from COVID-19 treatment.
• The two most common complications that can become life-threatening are failing to remove the unborn child’s residual body parts with the possibility of sepsis, and hemorrhaging.
• Currently there is NO age restriction and NO parental consent to obtaining an abortion. Parents have to consent to children at high school being provided Panadol, yet this would allow them to be sent without their parents’ knowledge of these high risk abortion pills.
• Without an ultrasound, how can the pregnancy accurately be dated and confirmed it is not an ectopic pregnancy? Life-threatening complications can occur in either scenario, and can ONLY be diagnosed professionally via ultrasound.
• This is NOT emergency healthcare; there is no risk to health that would require utilising much-needed medical equipment and facilities for the virus TO SAVE LIVES.
• This is a PSYCHOSOCIAL issue, that requires SUPPORT for the woman, not emergency medical intervention at this time of national health crisis.
• If domestic violence is suspected, then other intervention is required and PREGNANCY SUPPORT should be provided for the woman.
• This is a global pandemic with thousands of lives at risk, and no other actual ‘real’ health issues are being given this kind of exceptional consideration, many of which could also be the result of domestic violence.
• What about the domestic violence of forcing the woman to get onto the computer and order abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy that she actually wants, but he doesn’t. She is defenceless at home alone with this person. How can coercion be identified and stopped?

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