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. It is still illegal in New South Wales and South Australia unless doctors find the woman's health is at risk."I have no intention to overstep what the constitutional authority of the Commonwealth is on these matters," Mr Morrison said last week."And I don't find that debate one that tends to unite Australians.
The effective ban was scrapped in 2006, under the same government, when a cross-party alliance of women won a controversial conscience vote to remove the veto power. It led to the Therapeutic Goods Administration eventually approving RU486 being imported and distributed in Australia. Caroline de Costa was the first gynaecologist in the county to legally prescribe RU486 after importing it from New Zealand."But they wanted to get it absolutely right because they had Tony Abbott and a number of senators breathing down their neck."
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