NSW abortion law: Health groups say amendments are 'unnecessary and insulting'

Liberal minister Shelley Hancock says she's 'suspicious' of last-minute amendment circulated by Mark Speakman and Rob Stokes

Peak health and women's groups have slammed proposed amendments to an historic bill to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales, saying the changes are a "perversion" of the legislation that would result in "an additional burden on medical practitioners and to delay access to care".

On Wednesday the Australian Medical Association said it was concerned the objectives of the bill risked being "derailed by unfounded fear-mongering on abortion" while the NSW Pro-Choice alliance said the amendments "present a worse situation than the status quo".