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Woman charged for using abortion pill
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A YOUNG woman charged with procuring her own miscarriage will face a committal hearing alongside her boyfriend in September.
Tegan Simone Leach, 19, of Cairns, became the first woman to be charged with the offence in half a century after using a smuggled pill to abort her foetus.
Her boyfriend, Sergie Brennan, 21, is charged with attempting to procure and supply drugs to procuring an abortion.
Pro-choice advocates have blasted the decision to charge the couple, saying it's an unprecedented breach of the rights of women.
Cairns-based gynaecologist and obstetrician, Caroline De Costa, last month said the case revealed a legal loophole which could see doctors who prescribed abortion drugs prosecuted.
Dr De Costa said Queensland law did not offer protection for "non-surgical abortions" and she has stopped prescribing the controversial drug RU486.
She has urged her colleagues across the state to take similar action.
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