Medical Termination of Pregnancy: Law and Controversies in the United States and Australia.

IF 0.6 Q2 LAW Journal of Law and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-11-01
Ian Freckelton
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Abstract

This editorial reviews the changes over two decades in the United States and Australia in relation to the law governing access to drugs enabling medical termination of pregnancy. It also scrutinises three contentious decisions by the United States Supreme Court between 2022 and 2024 in relation to abortion. It argues that the receptive environment in the United States Supreme Court, as it is currently constituted, to challenges to the lawfulness of terminations of pregnancy and abortion medications is likely to inspire comparable challenges as part of the "Abortion Wars" in other countries, including Australia. However, a combination of factors is likely to protect access to terminations, particularly first trimester medical terminations. These include the clinical trajectory of changes made gradually over two decades by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia and Medsafe in New Zealand; evolving attitudes in the community; and the subversive accessibility of "mere pills".

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医学终止妊娠:美国和澳大利亚的法律和争议。
这篇社论回顾了美国和澳大利亚二十年来在有关获得药物的法律方面发生的变化,使医疗终止妊娠成为可能。它还审查了美国最高法院在2022年至2024年间就堕胎问题做出的三项有争议的裁决。它认为,美国最高法院目前对终止妊娠和堕胎药物的合法性提出挑战的接受环境很可能在包括澳大利亚在内的其他国家引发类似的挑战,成为“堕胎战争”的一部分。然而,多种因素的结合可能会保护堕胎的机会,特别是妊娠早期的医疗堕胎。其中包括美国食品和药物管理局、澳大利亚治疗用品管理局和新西兰Medsafe在过去20年里逐渐做出的改变的临床轨迹;社会态度的转变;以及“药片”的颠覆性可及性。
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