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❓ Hon Nick Goiran asks about practices ensuring fetal death in prostaglandin-induced labors and techniques used in selective terminations. The Health Minister responds, clarifying feticide practice and detailing the selective termination technique.

AnsweredQoN 4216Legislative Council

Asked

30 June 2016

Member

Hon Nick Goiran

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Health

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(1) I refer to answer (2c) provided to Hon Nick Goiran's question on notice to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations, Department of Health hearing on 16 June 2016 and I ask, in regards to the 70 cases that were performed by inducing labour with prostglandins, what is the recognised practice in Western Australia of ensuring that the unborn baby is delivered dead? (2) In regards to the two cases that were performed by selective termination, what selective termination techniques were implemented?

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Answered

7 September 2016

Responded by

Minister for Planning representing the Minister for Health

Response time

69 days

(1) Feticide is performed for those cases where there is an expectation that the unborn baby would survive if it were to be delivered.
(2) Standard selective termination techniques were employed, that being injection of potassium chloride into the fetal circulation under ultrasound guidance.

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