Anti-abortion group campaigns against bill
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A Bendigo anti-abortion group says it hopes state MPs who are voting on a bill to decriminalise abortion understand what they are voting on.
The Victorian Government tabled the bill in Parliament yesterday and all MPs will have a conscience vote in the proposed legislation.
The bill would allow women to choose an abortion in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, but they would have to show they are at risk of harm to terminate after that point.
Helen Leach from the Pro-Life Group in Bendigo says it is urging people to contact their local MPs to protest against the bill.
"The battle will go [on] and it will probably go on even stronger to educate people about the facts about abortion and whether they legalise it or they don't our work will still go on," she said.
The Women's Health group in the Loddon Mallee is pleased the abortion bill has been introduced to State Parliament.
The group's executive officer, Linda Beilhartz, says the proposed legislation looks at the issue legally, rather than morally.
"It does perhaps not go quite as far as we hoped in that it does still require medical permission and consideration for late term abortion, but I guess we are really happy to see that it is put the way it is," she said.
