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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Loane Skene ,
Jeremy Sugarman ,
Nancy E. Kass ,
Nadine Taub  and
Marion Danis
Loane Skene
Affiliation:
Principal Research Officer for the Victorian Law Reform Commission, Australia
Jeremy Sugarman
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Nancy E. Kass
Affiliation:
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Nadine Taub
Affiliation:
Law at Rugers University Law School, Newark, New Jersey, where she also directs the Women's Rights Litigation Clinic
Marion Danis
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Chair of the University of North Carolina Hospital's Ethics Committee
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Ethics Committees at Work
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 422 - 430
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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4. In Australia (although the law is different from state to state), abortion is generally lawful only if it is done by a doctor who believes on reasonable grounds that the abortion should be done to prevent a serious risk to the woman's life or physical or mental health; and the abortion is reasonable in the circumstances. Nevertheless, thousands of abortions are performed each year, and many people believe that the legal requirements are sometimes loosely interpreted.