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We also have the evidence from those different jurisdictions, everywhere from New Zealand to the state of Texas, where they have decriminalised abortion. There has been no significant increase. There are still a very few desperate people who will do something that none of us can actually contemplate, and the reason that we and a range of professionals have come forward with this measure is to make sure that those desperate people get into contact with the medical professions and do not wind up in the criminal justice system, where no good comes to them or to anybody else.