While Sections 15 to 17 created safe areas around abortion service providers, these clauses were eliminated from the final version of the law.

Based on the Royal Commission's recommendations, Parliament passed the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977, on a 40–26 vote.

In 1986, the Fourth Labour Government amended the Crimes Act to account for the extremes of age and sexual violation as mitigating grounds for abortion.

[11][5] Over the next three decades, politicians and abortion-rights groups lobbied for amending the CS&A Act to ease the criteria for abortions.

In late March 2020, the Sixth Labour Government passed the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which replaced Sections 10 to 46 of the CS&A Act with new clauses allowing women to seek abortion in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy; and only requiring consultations with two health practitioners after 20 weeks.