TY - JOUR T1 - Abortion law reform in Victoria: lessons for the UK JF - Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care JO - J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care SP - 25 LP - 25 DO - 10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101676 VL - 43 IS - 1 AU - Sally Sheldon Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/43/1/25.abstract N2 - The decriminalisation of abortion in Victoria was greeted by one commentator as changing both nothing and everything: “[n]othing, because the number, rate and incidence of abortion will not change. And everything, because for the first time women will be recognised as the authors of our own lives. With that comes our full citizenship”.1Victoria does not collect data regarding the incidence of abortion and, until now, the only evidence against which to assess these predictions has been anecdotal. Keogh et al.'s2 study in this issue provides the first robust … ER -