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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 10 Hansard (25 November) . . Page.. 2988 ..

Mr Berry: Why do you say "honestly believes"?

MR MOORE: They are the exact words that Mr Refshauge, the Director of Public Prosecutions, suggested. He said that there could be debate about just saying "in the case of a medical emergency" and that it would be more effective to say "where the person honestly believes that there is a case of medical emergency involving the woman". I have taken the words directly from Mr Refshauge's letter.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 6, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 7

MR MOORE (Minister for Health and Community Care) (12.24 am): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move amendments Nos 11, 12 and 13, circulated in my name, together.

Leave granted.

MR MOORE: I move:

Page 4, line 3, subclause (1), omit all the words after "abortion", substitute the following:

"a medical practitioner shall -

(a) properly, appropriately and adequately provide the woman with advice about -

(i) the medical risks of termination of pregnancy and of carrying a pregnancy to term;

(ii) any particular medical risks specific to the woman concerned of termination of pregnancy and of carrying a pregnancy to term;

(iii) any particular medical risks associated with the type of abortion procedure proposed to be used; and

(iv) the probable gestational age of the foetus at the time the abortion will be performed;

(b) offer the woman the opportunity of referral to appropriate and adequate counselling -

(i) about her decision to terminate the pregnancy or to carry the pregnancy to term; and

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