Bligh flouts ALP policy over abortion

  QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has defended the state's right to charge a 19-year-old Cairns woman with procuring an abortion with the controversial drug RU486, despite the ALP state conference last weekend reaffirming that the offence should be abolished. Tegan Simone Leach appeared in a Cairns court yesterday charged under section 225 of the Criminal Code with procuring an abortion. She is believed to be the first person in 50 years to be charged in Queensland with the offence. Ms Leach and her partner, Sergie Brennan, 21, allegedly used the pill when Ms Leach got pregnant and they decided they were too young to have a baby.  

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