!!!Fristenregelung

Abortion, Legal Limit for: In Austria, abortion is not punishable by 
law if performed within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and 
preceded by medical counselling. After decades of debate over a new 
legal regulation of  Abortion, the abortion limit was introduced on 
January 1 1975 under a Socialist government. The measure was supported 
primarily by groups within the Socialist and autonomous women's 
movement. Resistance from the Catholic conservative camp was expressed 
in the form of the "national petition for the protection of human 
life", initiated by the group "Aktion Leben", which was signed by 
895,665 persons (almost 18 % of those eligible to vote).


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