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Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Act 2015
Victorian state legislation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Act 2015 is an act of the Parliament of Victoria relating to the legal protection of access to abortion.
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Background
Before the passage of the act, there had been many years of complaints from abortion clinics in Victoria regarding protests.[1]
Prior to this law, in 2005, the Australian Democrats proposed a law to create buffer zones around clinics in Victoria.[2]
During the passage of the bill, the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne took the City of Melbourne to court for failing to meet its obligations relating to stopping "nuisances which are, or are liable to be, dangerous to health or offensive".[3]
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Provisions
The legislation establishes buffer zones of 150 metres around clinics at which abortion are provided.[4]
The legislation includes jail terms for repeated offenders.[5]
Reception
Georgie Purcell, an Animal Justice MLC, had an abortion before the bill and an abortion after the act came into effect and described the difference the legislation made in the second abortion positively.[6]
I remember thinking, this is what it feels like for politics to so intimately affect my life. And I feel safer here doing what I am completely within my rights to do
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