third conservative push to change South Australia’s abortion laws since 2024<\/a>, but the first to pass the upper house.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/17ab9aa7ecf25bc83dae1435a2aaca5b.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n
Ms Game’s said the make-up of parliament had changed following the state election. (ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
Speaking on the floor of parliament, Ms Game said there was support for the bill following the March election result.<\/p>\n
“The composition of this chamber has changed; it’s changed due to the voting of the public,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The public’s been fully aware of the new parties that have entered this chamber and their stance on abortion.”<\/p>\n
Greens MLC Melanie Selwood said she was “shocked and appalled” to be debating the bill again.<\/p>\n
“I would much rather be here talking about safe and equitable access to abortion,” Ms Selwood said.<\/p>\n
“But instead, I’m having to defend fundamental healthcare.”<\/p>\n
Amendment backed by supporters of legislation<\/p>\n
Supporters of Ms Game\u2019s legislation also backed the amendment put forward by Mr Ngo to include an exemption for serious fetal abnormalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Upper house Liberal MP Dennis Hood said while he would have preferred the bill passed in its original form, “politics is the art of the possible” and the change would make the bill “more palatable to many people”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a31e896c9b38680127ee8e2dd59bda64.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n
Labor MP Tung Ngo added an amendment to Ms Game’s bill. (ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
Mr Ngo said he did not support late-term abortion but \u201cI am also against forcing families into suffering when the medical reality is clear and the outcome is heartbreak\u201d.<\/p>\n
“We trust families every day with decisions about life and death, we trust them because they are the ones that love that person most,” he said.<\/p>\n
“So, why would we deny that trust to families facing the most devastating news imaginable?”<\/p>\n
![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c7b0183a88cd133ce2de24d13f67e1bc.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n
Hundreds attended a rally in support of Sarah Game’s bill on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 (ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
Labor upper house MP Russel Wortley called on lower house MPs to vote against the legislation.<\/p>\n
“[While] the numbers have changed in this house, which is obvious, it’s also changed in the lower house,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And there are 34 members of the Labor Party in that chamber, and I know there are a number of members of the opposition and independents who don\u2019t support this bill.<\/p>\n
“We fought the battle twice and we won it. I would now implore members of the lower house to respect the rights of women to make their decision.”<\/p>\n
![\"Sarah](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/736f6b68f9a8fc70714e99f2ebcd9c10.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n
Anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe and Family First MLC Sarah Game attended a rally in support of the late-term abortion bill.\u00a0 (ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
Premier says final vote will happen tonight in lower house<\/p>\n
Earlier on Wednesday, Premier Peter Malinauskas said the bill would be brought to a vote in the lower house on Wednesday evening if it passed the upper house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are 34 Labor MPs in the lower house \u2013 33 when excluding the speaker \u2013 compared to the Liberal party’s five, One Nation’s four and four independents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One Labor source told the ABC there was “nervous optimism” the bill would be voted down in the lower house.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia’s upper house has passed a bill to restrict access to late-term abortion. The legislation passed 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15793,162060,162059,64,63,95341,31478,25494,10940,127358,8122,61572,44,9801,101075,162061,5728],"class_list":["post-742147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-abortion","tag-abortion-bill","tag-abortion-laws","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-house-of-assembly","tag-labor-party","tag-laws","tag-liberal-party","tag-lower-house","tag-medical","tag-mp","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-sa-parliament","tag-sarah-game","tag-upper-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d82c47fde37cc348c4dfeae6ec78f85e.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n