The procedure is only lawful in Queensland if performed so as to “prevent serious danger to the woman’s physical or mental health” but around 14,000 terminations take place there every year involving women who meet the criteria or have doctors who are willing to say they do.

"I knew immediately that I couldn't have a baby, I needed an abortion," Tamsyn told BuzzFeed News.



"I like kids and my nieces and nephews are the apple of my eye but I knew that I would never have any of my own... my partner knew this before we entered into a relationship and he felt the same way."

Tamsyn told her doctor, who had been prescribing her the contraceptive pill for years, that she was pregnant and needed help accessing an abortion.



"His response horrified me," she said. "He said that this was the world’s way of telling me that I was meant to be a mother. That, as a woman, I was supposed to continue this pregnancy."



Tamysn said the doctor then refused to help her find an abortion.

