MS-2 Step medication, also known as RU486, can now be prescribed by any healthcare practitioner
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Medical abortions will become easier to access under rules that allow doctors and pharmacists without specialist certification to prescribe termination pills.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has scrapped restrictions on the prescription of medical abortion pills, which are used in the early stages of an unwanted pregnancy.
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