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The state government of Western Australia has backed down on a ban preventing
Etienne-Emile Beaulieu, the French inventor of the abortion pill RU486,
from giving a talk at a hospital.

Doctors at King Edward Memorial Hospital for women, the Australian Medical
Association, women’s rights groups and the state opposition, had all protested
that the ban amounted to ‘censorship’.

State health minister Keith Wilson, who opposes abortion and had banned
Beaulieu’s talk, reversed his decision after acknowledging that it might
not produce any ‘good and desirable final outcome’.