PERTH, Australia, July 31 (LSN) – Abortionists Victor Chan and Hoh Peng Lee, both charged with committing abortions which, before charges were laid, was illegal in the state of Western Australia, were formally discharged yesterday after the Crown offered no evidence in the trial proceedings. Although abortion was officially still illegal, except when the life of an expectant mother was said to have been endangered by her pregnancy, the law was not enforced for some 30 years. The charges against the abortionists led to the changing of the law, giving Western Australia the most permissive abortion law in the nation.
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