本日付のTimes Onlineでみつけた記事です。冒頭を引用します。
From Times Online
September 11, 2009
Australian teenager faces jail over home abortion
Anne Barrowclough in Sydney
A teenager faces seven years in prison after being ordered to stand trial for organising her own home abortion in the first such prosecution in Australia in over half a century.
Tegan Leach, 19, from the north Queensland city of Cairns, was committed to trial today in Cairns District Court. Her boyfriend, Sergie Brennan, 21, who has been charged with supplying drugs to procure an abortion, faces three years in jail.
The court heard that police found empty pharmaceutical blister packets alleged to have contained contraband abortion drugs obtained in Ukraine, along with a Russian doctor's instructions, during a search of the couple's Cairns home in relation to another matter in February.
Police allege that Ms Leach took the drugs, a Chinese version of the abortion pill RU486, to induce a miscarriage because she and her partner believed that they were too young to raise a child.
中国製のRU486を使った若い女性と薬を斡旋した恋人が逮捕されたとのこと。「ヴィクトリア時代に作られた法」を適用すべきかどうか、議論は二手に分かれているとか。日本でも他人事ではないかも……。
