The February 8, 2020, rally outside S.A. Parliament House (Photo: DM Forbes)
Here is a letter, written by veteran nurse Elinor Nan Wilson, addressed to the parliamentarians of South Australia:
Dear South Australian Parliamentarians
I understand from the Advertiser that there is a new law being drafted which, if passed, will allow abortions to be performed up until full term of pregnancy in South Australia.
I have been a nurse for almost 50 years, and a midwife/child-and-family nurse for 45 of those. I trained at the Queen Victoria Hospital in 1975 and have been working in midwifery and child and family health in three states ever since. Having spent most of my career trying to help families deliver their children safely and seeing how difficult it is for some people to become pregnant and then carry to full term, I cannot understand why we would extend the age for aborting other pregnancies. Surely 28 weeks, which the law has allowed in SA since 1969, is long enough to determine whether there are abnormalities, or whether the pregnancy is unwanted for any other reason?