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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Lucy Bladen

ACT to allow midwives, nurse practitioners to provide abortion medication

Nurse practitioners and midwives would be able to prescribe abortion medication under proposed laws introduced in the ACT Legislative Assembly.

Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith introduced the bill, which follows a decision by the Therapeutic Goods Administration to remove restrictions on who can prescribe the medication.

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