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Features: National perspectives

Medical abortion in Australia: a short history

Pages 169-176 | Received 31 May 2015, Accepted 30 Oct 2015, Published online: 04 Dec 2015

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Marion Haas, Jody Church, Deborah J. Street, Deborah Bateson & Danielle Mazza. (2022) How can we encourage the provision of early medical abortion in primary care? Results of a best–worst scaling survey. Australian Journal of Primary Health 29:3, pages 252-259.
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Danielle Mazza, Jane W. Seymour, Monisha Vaid Sandhu, Catriona Melville, Jacquie O’Brien & Terri-Ann Thompson. (2021) General practitioner knowledge of and engagement with telehealth-at-home medical abortion provision. Australian Journal of Primary Health 27:6, pages 456-461.
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Laura Fix, Jane W Seymour, Monisha Vaid Sandhu, Catriona Melville, Danielle Mazza & Terri-Ann Thompson. (2020) At-home telemedicine for medical abortion in Australia: a qualitative study of patient experiences and recommendations. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health 46:3, pages 172-176.
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Suzanne Belton, Georgia McQueen & Edwina Ali. (2020) Impact of legislative change on waiting time for women accessing surgical abortion services in a rural hospital in the Northern Territory. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 60:3, pages 459-464.
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Kathryn J. LaRoche, L.L. Wynn & Angel M. Foster. (2020) “We’ve got rights and yet we don’t have access”: Exploring patient experiences accessing medication abortion in Australia. Contraception 101:4, pages 256-260.
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Katherine Side. (2020) Abortion Im/mobility: Spatial Consequences in the Republic of Ireland. Feminist Review 124:1, pages 15-31.
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Caroline de Moel-Mandel, Melissa Graham & Ann Taket. (2019) Expert consensus on a nurse-led model of medication abortion provision in regional and rural Victoria, Australia: a Delphi study. Contraception 100:5, pages 380-385.
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Joanne Howe & Suzanne Le Mire. (2019) MEDICAL REFERRAL FOR ABORTION AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE IN AUSTRALIAN LAW. Journal of Law and Religion 34:1, pages 85-112.
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Alana Hulme-Chambers, Samantha Clune & Jane Tomnay. (2018) Medical termination of pregnancy service delivery in the context of decentralization: social and structural influences. International Journal for Equity in Health 17:1.
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Paul Hyland, Elizabeth G. Raymond & Erica Chong. (2018) A direct‐to‐patient telemedicine abortion service in Australia: Retrospective analysis of the first 18 months. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 58:3, pages 335-340.
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Angela J. Dawson, Rachel Nicolls, Deborah Bateson, Anna Doab, Jane Estoesta, Ann Brassil & Elizabeth A. Sullivan. (2017) Medical termination of pregnancy in general practice in Australia: a descriptive-interpretive qualitative study. Reproductive Health 14:1.
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