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.
By Lily Nothling
Aug 29, 2021
When Zoe Eaton fell pregnant during high school, she knew she wanted an abortion, but getting one didn't come without hurdles.
"I didn't expect that I was going to be pregnant at 17. It was not something I wanted for myself," Ms Eaton said. "To me, my future looked pretty bleak if I had to go through with that pregnancy."
Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-30/access-to-abortion-really-difficult-in-regional-qld/100414012
AUGUST 23 2021
Editorial
Northern Tasmanian women are facing emotional and financial burdens when it comes to accessing surgical abortions - and in 2021 this simply isn't good enough.
It wasn't good enough this time last year when it was revealed that the cost shortfalls associated with the procedures were being absorbed by doctors, not the government.
15 August 2021
By Naomi Neilson
In what has been praised as a “landmark achievement” by human rights lawyers, the Western Australian government has brought its legislation in line with the rest of Australia by passing a bill to create protective zones around abortion services. However, the state still has a long way to go to decriminalise and modernise its laws.
Western Australia has become the last state or territory in Australia to pass the Public Health Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2021 and has finally unified the country’s protective zones around abortion services. Within these zones, obstructive and harassing behaviour targeted at patients and staff is prohibited.
By Rhiannon Shine
Aug 12, 2021
Protesting outside abortion clinics will no longer be allowed in any Australian jurisdiction, after laws to introduce safe access zones in Western Australia passed State Parliament.
The Public Health Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2021 passed the Labor-dominated Legislative Council today.
7 Aug, 2021
By: Alanah Eriksen, Deputy Head of News, NZ Herald
It's a decision no mother-to-be should have to make.
Jorjia Nicholas, 25, was forced to have an abortion as pregnancy put her and her unborn child's lives at risk following years of heart problems and damage done during surgery.
BY: Loop Author
August 6, 2021
Marie Stopes PNG, the country’s largest provider of family planning and sexual and reproductive health services says more needs to be done to eliminate unsafe abortion in PNG.
MSPNG Country Director, Dr David Ayres raised concerns in relation to an incident recently reported in the news about a young lady, only 16-years old, who lost her life because of an unplanned pregnancy, which she was trying to abort.
Continued: https://www.looppng.com/png-news/eliminate-unsafe-abortion-103043
The Signal
By Ange Lavoipierre and Stephen Smiley
Mon 12 Jul 2021
There's an assumption that it's relatively easy to access an abortion in Australia, but the truth is that it really depends on where you live.
There is still a struggle to provide access in many parts of the country, according to Jamal Hakim, the managing director of an NGO that provides reproductive health services in both metropolitan and regional areas.
Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-13/abortion-in-regional-postcode-lottery/100288484
Catholic Medical Association asks members to support bill critics say will only inflict harm
Amy Remeikis
Mon 5 Jul 2021
Catholic doctors are being urged to support
George Christensen’s “nonsensical” abortion bill, leading to concerns medical
professionals could impose their religious beliefs on patients.
The Catholic Medical Association has sent out an email to members asking them
to put their name to a letter supporting Christensen’s Children Born Alive
Protection bill which seeks to enforce providing “life-sustaining treatment” to
all foetuses “born alive”.
20 Jun, 2021
By: Emma Russell
A young couple made a gruelling decision to terminate their first pregnancy at 25 weeks after a midwife failed to read two earlier ultrasounds showing significant abnormalities.
If the scans had been read by the midwife, problems with the pregnancy would likely have been picked up four weeks earlier.
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