Thanks to the work of the South Australian Abortion Action Coalition (saaac) and our many allies, in 2021 legislation was passed to decriminalise and modernise abortion care in South Australia. Abortion was decriminalised because abortion is healthcare.
saaac continues to work to improve equitable access to quality abortion care in South Australia for all people. While working to improve access, we will always respond when safe abortion healthcare comes under threat in SA. In 2024 and 2025, saaac was central in working to defeat anti-abortion attempts to erode the decriminalising law reform of 2021.
Breaking News
In May 2026, Sarah Game MLC introduced legislation seeking to limit access to abortion in the South Australian Legislative Council, the third such bill in a two year period. This bill would ban abortion after 25 weeks except to save to the life of the pregnant person. This bill ignores evidence-based health care and disregards the complex factors that cause people to require abortion later in pregnancy. Once again, saaac is mobilising to ensure that the needs of pregnant patients are at the centre of abortion health care. We are expecting a Legislative Council vote on 17 June 2026.
Game’s 2026 bill is opposed by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Royal Australian College of GPs, the Australian College of Midwives, the Working Women’s Centre, SA Unions, Fair Agenda, Business and Professional Women (BPW) Adelaide, and other relevant professional and advocacy organisations.
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Use the Fair Agenda email tool to contact MLCs and express your opposition to this latest attack on patient-centred, compassionate abortion care.
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Use saaac’s Factsheets to combat disinformation and misinformation in person and online.
You can find two rigorously developed fact sheets about advanced gestation abortion and public opinion about abortion care below. There is more information in the Get The Facts section of this website.
saaac acknowledges that we meet and do our work on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people and respect their spiritual relationship with their country
we acknowledge their ongoing presence on this land, their sovereignty, which has never been ceded, and the ongoing vitality and importance of their culture and heritage
we pay tribute to elders and leaders past, present and emerging – among all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
we pay our respects to the cultural authority of Aboriginal people from other lands and waters of South Australia and Australia.
(In the photo above, saaac members and several politicians celebrate the passage of legislation decriminalising abortion in SA on the steps of Parliament House on 4 March 2021. Thanks to Michael Mullan for photography.)
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