By Rachel Eddie
August 6, 2023
Hundreds of women in rural and regional Victoria have no access to surgical and medical terminations close to where they live, forcing some to travel for hours to get an abortion.
Red tape to prescribe the abortion pill will be removed from this month, but reproductive healthcare providers say the change will not end the “postcode lottery” many women are faced with.
By Georgia Lenton-Williams
Oct 7, 2022
Protesters have clashed with police in Melbourne's city as people rallied in the streets to promote opposing messages about abortion rights.
Pro-choice protesters marched a course through the CBD that was planned to intersect with an anti-abortion march taking place at the same time.
Reason party leader Fiona Patten, who is introducing the bill, says ‘imposed religious faith has no place in the public health system’
Tamsin Rose
Sun 31 Jul 2022
Public hospitals in Victoria would not be allowed to stop doctors from providing abortions under a bill being introduced to state parliament this week by the crossbench MP Fiona Patten.
The legislation follows the overturning of
the landmark Roe v Wade decision in the US in June, and comes with just four
more sitting weeks before Victorians head to the polls in November.
Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll review: Fiona Patten and the right to speak
By Pat Sheil
16 October 2018
MEMOIR: Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll, by Fiona Patten. Allen & Unwin, $32.99
"I am an advocate for free speech, but not of a free audience." So declared Fiona Patten, former sex worker, anti-censorship lobbyist, and founder of the Australian Sex Party during the heated debate on restricting the ability of so-called "right to life" activists to protest outside abortion clinics in the Victorian parliament in 2015.
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