Abortion
August 2007-May 2008
The commission's final report on the law of abortion was tabled in parliament on 28 May 2008.
In August 2007 the government announced it would ask the commission for legislative advice on the decriminalisation of terminations of pregnancy.
The commission received terms of reference for the project on 26 September 2007 and handed its report to the Attorney-General on 28 March 2008.
More than 500 submissions to the review were received. Because of the tight reporting timeline, we were unable to accept submissions after the 9 November 2007 deadline.
The commission held more than 30 meetings with people involved in abortion law reform from the beginning of October until mid-November 2007. Many of these individuals and groups also went on to make submissions to the review.