Former Greens and now Independent MLC Tammy Franks has labelled the Upper House bill a “conservative dog-whistle and a bid for votes”.

Game – a former One Nation MLC – announced on Friday she would introduce the Termination of Pregnancy (Restrictions on Terminations after 22 Weeks and 6 Days) Amendment Bill 2025 during the last sitting days of parliament before the March state election.

She confirmed that controversial University of Adelaide professor and anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe helped Game – who earlier this year launched her party Sarah Game Fair Go For Australians – draft the bill.

Howe was banned from parts of SA parliament’s upper house last year after allegations she pressured politicians on the night of a previous vote on late-term abortion law.

Howe denied th

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