Australia: This Is Why Getting An Abortion Outside Of A Major City Is So Damned Hard

This Is Why Getting An Abortion Outside Of A Major City Is So Damned Hard
"It can be a difficult place for patients to access contraception, let alone abortion."

Posted on August 07, 2017
Gina Rushton
BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia

Renata lives in Inverell, a “small country town” in rural New South Wales where “everyone knows everyone”.

In 2009 she fell pregnant unexpectedly.

“We had only been together for about seven weeks and things were already going south in the relationship at that point,” Renata, who asked for us not to use her real name for privacy reasons, told BuzzFeed News.

“I was 19-years-old and I was really scared about going to my family GP because I thought it would get back to my parents.

Continued at source: Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ginarushton/getting-an-abortion-outside-of-a-major-city

Abortion must be decriminalised in Australia: we can’t take our reproductive rights for granted

Abortion must be decriminalised in Australia: we can’t take our reproductive rights for granted
Mehreen Faruqi

Despite a majority of people supporting a woman’s right to choose, abortion is still a criminal offence in Queensland and NSW. It’s time to remove the shame and end the stigma

Mehreen Faruqi is a Greens NSW MP and the Greens spokeswoman on multiculturalism and transport

Wednesday 8 March 2017

It’s 17 years into the 21st century, yet the most basic right of women to have control over their own bodies is under attack not just in Trump’s United States but across the world – even in Australia.

One of the first executive orders signed by the US president reinstated and expanded the global gag rule which will strip US aid funds from NGOs that provide abortion or related services, including information or referrals, or even advocate for modernising abortion laws. This could impact millions of women in the most vulnerable circumstances by blocking their access to vital health services. Bolstered by this decision, the anti-choice lobby’s calls to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood have become even stronger and louder.

Continued at source: The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/08/abortion-must-be-decriminalised-in-australia-we-cant-take-our-reproductive-rights-for-granted

08.03.2017

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Australia: Mum speaks out amid abortion reform fight

Mum speaks out amid abortion reform fight
Derrick Krusche
13 Feb 2017

Emilee Body had heard much about the protesters outside Albury’s Englehardt Street abortion clinic. Feeling nervous as she approached it, she turned a corner and immediately saw them.

She remembered stories of women being harassed, being filmed and even being handed plastic foetal dolls as they entered the clinic.

Ms Body was stressed enough as it was, and did not want to suffer the indignity of their protests. But as her car entered the clinic’s driveway they started to approach. She locked eye contact with them and panicked.

Continued at source: Barossa Herald: http://www.barossaherald.com.au/story/4462632/mum-speaks-out-amid-abortion-reform-fight/?cs=2452

Australia: Bill to legalise abortion introduced to NSW parliament

Mehreen Faruqi said she was heartened by support from legal academics for her bill to decriminalise abortion in NSW. Photograph: Chris James/AAP

Greens upper house member Mehreen Faruqi says law should reflect that women seeking abortions and doctors performing them are not criminals

by Bridie Jabour

Thursday 11 August 2016 04.23 BST

More than 100 academics have called on the New South Wales government to take abortion off the criminal code as Greens upper house member Mehreen Faruqi prepares to introduce the legislation.

Law and criminology academics from across the state have signed a letter saying it is time to decriminalise abortion and calling for privacy zones to be introduced around abortion service providers and clinics.

Luke McNamara, the University of New South Wales law professor who organised the letter, said criminal law should be kept in line with community expectations.

“In this context social values have changed, this is widely recognised, maybe not universally recognised, it’s appropriate for a woman to have the right to choose an abortion, and criminal law should not be inconsistent with that basic principle,” he said.

Source: The Guardian

11.08.2016

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Australia: Greens push to decriminalise abortion in NSW, stop protesters harassing women

Mehreen Faruqi introduced the private member's bill to Parliament. ABC News

By state political reporter Sarah Gerathy

Posted Aug 10 at 9:38pm, ABC News

The Greens have made a push to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales and ban protesters from harassing women entering abortion clinics.

Despite a 1971 court decision providing access to abortion in NSW on certain grounds, it is still technically an offence under the state's Crimes Act.

NSW and Queensland are currently the only states which have not used legislation to confirm a woman's right to terminate their pregnancy.

The Greens have introduced a private member's bill seeking to decriminalise abortion by removing it from the Crimes Act, which was drafted more than 100 years ago.

Source: ABC News, Australia

10.08.2016