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Dr Marie.
Family Planning Victoria.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Abortion Providers’ Federation of Australia.
The Women’s.
Abortion Clinics in Australia.

References used for this fact sheet

  • Termination of pregnancy – a resource for health professionals, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. More information here.
  • Abortion in Australia, 2005, Public Health Association of Australia. More information here.
  • Women and abortion, 2010, Women’s Health Issues Paper No. 6, May 2010, Women’s Health Victoria. More information here.
  • Australian abortion law and practice, Children by Choice. More information here.
  • Bird, S. 2006, ‘Abortion and the law in Australia’, Australian Family Physician, vol. 35, no. 11. More information here.
  • Abortion information, Dr Marie. More information here.
  • Chan, A & Sage, LC, 2005, ‘Estimating Australia’s abortion rates 1985–2003’, Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 182, no. 9, pp. 447–452. More information here.
  • Chan, A & Keane, RJ, 2004, ‘Prevalence of induced abortion in a reproductive lifetime’, American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 159, pp. 475–480. More information here.
  • What women want: when faced with an unplanned pregnancy, 2006, Dr Marie. More information here.
  • Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2003, Fifth ed. 2007, World Health Organization. More information here.
  • Kulier, R, Cheng, L, Fekih, A, Hofmeyr, GJ & Campana, A, 2001, Surgical methods for first trimester termination of pregnancy, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 4. More information here.
  • How many abortions are there in Australia? A discussion of abortion statistics, their limitations, and options for improved statistical collection, 2005, Parliament of Australia Issues Paper, no. 9, 2004–05. More information here.
  • Abortion Law Reform Act 2008, Parliament of Victoria. More information here.
* Note that laws in some states of Australia might have changed since some of these references were written. Check with your state or territory government about the laws in your area.

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