Tasmania has joined Victoria and the ACT in removing abortion from its criminal laws after seven months of deliberations in Parliament.

Health Minister Michelle O'Byrne's bill cleared its final parliamentary hurdle about 7:00pm on Thursday.

Ms O'Byrne described the new law as a significant reform for women.

"It brings our laws into the 21st century, into line with community expectations and the overwhelming majority of medical, legal and human rights opinion," she said.

Among the amendments was a change to the provision for doctors who conscientiously object to abortion to give women a list of willing practitioners.

Instead, the new law requires women in these cases to be given the full range of pregnancy options, including providing the woman with a list of prescribed health services.

Pro-abortion campaigner Georgie Ibbott thinks removing references to abortion in the criminal law removes confusion for doctors.

"Termination - sitting as it did in the criminal code - was one of the fundamental causes of confusion around doctors and what that meant for them," she said.

Glynis Flower from the Hobart Women's Health Centre was cautious in responding to the change.

"It's too sensitive an issue to sort of have, you know, the balloons, the popping of corks."

Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings has used the passage of abortion laws to attack Opposition Leader Will Hodgman.

The bill was backed by Liberal MLC and Shadow Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin, but resisted by the other Liberal in the Upper House, Leonie Hiscutt.

All the Liberals MPs in the Lower House also voted against it, but aspiring Liberal candidate and incumbent Independent MLC for Huon Paul Harriss was a supporter.

Ms Giddings thinks that constitutes a backlash against Mr Hodgman's positions on social issues.

"The voluntary assisted dying, the terminations, the marriage equality legislation - issues where the Liberal party voted pretty much as a bloc on conscience vote issues.

"I suspect people have said, 'Will, that is just so ultra conservative. We don't like the approach that the party is taking on these issues'," she said.