By Melissa Cunningham
August 30, 2021
Surgical terminations have dropped in Australia in recent years as an increasing number of women instead choose to take an abortion pill early in their pregnancy.
A new study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, for the first time examines abortion rates nationally since two oral medications – mifepristone and misoprostol – were added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in 2013.
It's time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in Australia
by Caroline De Costa, The Conversation
April 1, 2019
Over the past thirteen years, many Australian women have used the drug mifepristone (RU486) to bring about a medical abortion.
Rather than undergoing a surgical abortion in a clinic or hospital operating theatre, a medical abortion is induced by taking drugs prescribed by a doctor.
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Tory Shepherd, Political Editor, The Advertiser
September 27, 2016 8:00am
COMPLICATED abortion laws are driving women to buy termination drugs online, a report released today reveals.
Some women face serious barriers to safe, affordable abortions, while the drugs for a home abortion are easy to find on Facebook.
Every state and territory has different, complicated abortion laws, and the Federal Government has bogged down abortion drugs in red tape, university researchers say. That and possibly fear of controversy have led to doctors’ reluctance to sign up to provide medical abortions.
Women, particularly those in rural and regional Australia and from vulnerable groups, can face geographical, financial and legal barriers to both surgical and medical procedures (which use the drugs misoprostol and mifepristone, also called RU486).
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