Racism influencing proposed NSW sex-selection abortion ban, says Albury MP

1 June 2026
By Oliver Jacques

A proposed NSW law to ban sex-selective abortion is being driven by “racist and anti-immigration rhetoric”, according to Albury MP Dr Amanda Cohn.

Sex-selective abortion refers to terminating a pregnancy because of the sex of the foetus — typically after an ultrasound reveals it is female. The practice has been documented in some overseas countries, including China and India, where cultural preferences for sons have historically contributed to skewed birth ratios in parts of the population.

Continued: https://regionriverina.com.au/racism-influencing-proposed-nsw-sex-selection-abortion-ban-says-albury-mp/127041/

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USA – The Next Phase of the Abortion Wars: Targeting Pills, Helpers and Patients

The Next Phase of the Abortion Wars: Targeting Pills, Helpers and Patients
Four years after Dobbs, state lawmakers are shifting from outright bans to a sweeping strategy of lawsuits, criminal penalties and cross-state battles aimed at cutting off the last remaining routes to abortion care.

Feb 12, 2026
by Ava Slocum, Ms. Magazine

The first year of Trump’s second term marked major blows for reproductive healthcare. Medicaid funding cuts forced about 50 Planned Parenthood clinics to close throughout the U.S. and blocked 1.1 million Planned Parenthood patients on Medicaid from using their insurance to pay for reproductive healthcare. Twenty-three independent abortion clinics throughout the country also shut down in 2025, according to Abortion Care Network’s annual report.

2025 also saw some new, troubling trends in state-level reproductive healthcare policies, including restrictions on medication abortion and shield laws and criminalization for people who help patients access abortions.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/02/12/abortion-bans-pills-state-shield-laws-fetal-personhood/

AUSTRALIA – Upper House MP Sarah Game launches new push to change SA abortion laws

Exclusive by Kathryn Bermingham
Thursday 4 September

A renewed push to place new restrictions on abortion access in South Australia is set to be introduced to parliament, less than a year after the last debate over the state's pregnancy termination laws.

Upper House MP Sarah Game, an independent formerly of One Nation, will introduce a bill to place new limits on abortions after 23 weeks.

Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-05/sarah-game-introduces-new-abortion-bill-amendments/105734080

A South Australian MP’s mad anti-abortion bill shows the culture wars are far from over

Liberal Ben Hood’s forced-births proposal demands outcomes both cruel and ridiculous

Van Badham
Thu 26 Sep 2024

I spend an uncommon amount of time in South Australia for a person who doesn’t actually live there; I’d never heard of South Australian Liberal MP Ben Hood until his current private member’s bill to repoliticise abortion in the worst possible way.

Appointed directly by his party to fill a casual upper house vacancy last year, Hood was last before the will of the people when he contested Mt Gambier’s House of Assembly seat for the Liberal party in 2022 and lost. But with an electoral mandate of zero, the MP is now famous – congratulations, Ben – for reinflaming debate on the settled issue of abortion.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/26/a-south-australian-mps-mad-anti-abortion-bill-shows-the-culture-wars-are-far-from-over

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UK – Parents call for abortion law change

June 3, 2024
Kris Holland & Sam Read, BBC News, Northamptonshire

A couple who have a daughter with Down's syndrome called for a change in the law on abortion. Steve and Natalie, from Northampton, said the birth of Verity, 15 months ago, had changed their view on the current legislation.

At the moment, pregnancies which involved foetuses with Down's syndrome could be terminated up to the point of birth. The couple want legislation for Down's syndrome amended so that it is in line with the 24-week cut-off for standard pregnancies, which Natalie said was "about equality".

Continued: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wwejn2kxlo

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South Carolina’s All-Male Supreme Court Upholds Radical Abortion Ban

The ban effectively wipes out abortion access in the South.

Tori Otten
August 23, 2023

The South Carolina all-male Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the state’s brutal six-week abortion ban, decimating access to the procedure in the Southeast.

Governor Henry McMaster signed the bill into law in May in a closed-door session, with no fanfare or warning to doctors who could be about to perform a newly illegal procedure. The measure passed only because McMaster called a special legislative session to weigh the abortion ban.

Continued: https://newrepublic.com/post/175143/south-carolina-male-supreme-court-upholds-radical-abortion-ban

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Factbox: U.S. state abortion legislation to watch in 2023

By Gabriella Borter and Sharon Bernstein
July 26, 2023

July 26 (Reuters) - State legislatures are wrestling with how much to restrict or expand abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

Here is a snapshot of pending and passed legislation seeking to restrict or protect access in 2023.

Continued: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-state-abortion-legislation-watch-2023-2023-07-26/

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A year after Dobbs and the end of Roe v. Wade, there’s chaos and confusion

June 24, 2023
Vanessa Romo

One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting an end to the constitutionally protected right to access abortion, the health care landscape has become increasingly fragmented and complex to navigate, spawning widespread confusion.

So far, more than a dozen states have enacted extremely restrictive abortion bans, with the majority making no exceptions for rape or incest. And many more are waiting on legal challenges to make their way through the courts. In Texas, private citizens can sue abortion providers and those who assist patients seeking an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/24/1183639093/abortion-ban-dobbs-roe-v-wade-anniversary-confusion

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USA – Here’s what abortion foes have been up to in the year after Dobbs draft leak

Anti-abortion activists have flooded state legislatures with proposals to criminalize pregnancy termination or to add burdensome regulations

BY: SOFIA RESNICK
MAY 3, 2023

Anti-abortion leaders could not stop paraphrasing Winston Churchill last June after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a victory that took 50 years to realize.

“While we celebrate the momentous ruling in Dobbs, we must remember that overturning Roe was not the beginning of the end, but it was the end of the beginning,” said Kristen Waggoner, CEO of the leading anti-abortion law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, on a webcast days after the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Continued: https://www.penncapital-star.com/civil-rights-social-justice/heres-what-abortion-foes-have-been-up-to-in-the-year-after-dobbs-draft-leak/

The states to watch in the fight for US abortion rights

After Roe v Wade repeal, states across the United States continue to grapple with restricting or protecting abortion rights.

28 Apr 2023

State legislatures are wrestling with how much to restrict or expand abortion access after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last year.

Here is a snapshot of pending and passed legislation seeking to restrict or protect access in 2023, including details on a law that took effect in North Dakota this week broadly banning abortion and the defeat of abortion ban bills in South Carolina and Nebraska.

Continued: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/28/the-states-to-watch-in-the-fight-for-us-abortion-rights

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