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Family First MP Sarah Game’s contentious bill to restrict access to late-term abortions was defeated in the lower house of South Australian parliament today, after hours of debate in both houses.
Both Premier Peter Malinauskas and Opposition Leader Ashton Hurn voted in favour of the bill.
South Australia's upper house has passed a bill to restrict access to late-term abortion.
The legislation passed 10 votes to 9 on Wednesday afternoon with the support of three newly-elected One Nation MPs.
It will be debated by the lower house later on Wednesday evening.
The bill, introduced by Family First MP Sarah Game, effectively bans abortion from 25 weeks onwards except when it is necessary to save the life of the mother or there are serious fetal abnormalities.