Another regional NSW hospital no longer providing surgical abortions

The ABC has uncovered evidence of another public hospital in regional New South Wales no longer providing surgical abortions.

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00:00We had revealed that Queanbeyan Hospital stopped providing surgical abortions all of a sudden

00:07after turning a woman away on the day of her procedure.

00:10At the time, doctors warned of an unspoken ban.

00:13Now we've obtained an email which proves that Queanbeyan Hospital has formally stopped providing

00:20surgical terminations.

00:22The New South Wales Health Minister has been out today in response to this story and he

00:27says that this is not a systemic issue, that this is an isolated case and that public hospitals

00:33will not be across the board, there will be no abortion ban.

00:38His Parliamentary Secretary, Michael Holland, spoke to us for this story.

00:42We published online on the ABC News website this morning and he blamed workforce shortages

00:48and resourcing.

00:50In other cases, last week we revealed there'd been a ban put in place on abortions for non-medical

00:55reasons in Orange and there was great concern from sources we spoke to that that may have

01:03been due to conscientious objection.

01:05Michael Holland assures us that that is not the case here at Queanbeyan.