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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-06-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Abortion</name>
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          <heading>Abortion</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2020-06-04">
            <name>Abortion</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4363">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>(28 April 2020).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2020-06-04">
            <name>Abortion</name>
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            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I am advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;No.</inserted>
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        <page num="988" />
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;The data from the South Australian Abortion Registry demonstrates no impact on the number of women seeking abortion services this year up until March. Further, the number of early medical abortions are similar to that in previous years for the same month. Early indications from April data, which are still incomplete, similarly show no apparent impact on access to abortion services.</inserted>
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