By Emma Pollard
July 22, 2025
After a miscarriage and unsuccessful IVF attempts, Brisbane woman Elisa and her husband Brent were feeling cautiously joyful at their 12-week pregnancy scan early this year. It showed a "beautiful baby" with 10 little fingers and 10 little toes.
"I have to say we did fall in love with our little baby girl and we were … really thinking that it's finally happening for us," Elisa said.
That joy came crashing down less than 30 minutes later.
By national regional affairs reporter Lucy Barbour and Lucy Sweeney
May 31, 2025
Every week, Australians seeking a legal form of health care are forced to traverse their home states and territories — sometimes crossing borders — to access an abortion.
Depending on where someone lives, and how far into the pregnancy they are, the path to this time-critical procedure can be obstructed by hurdles that amplify fear, trauma and financial disadvantage.
Here’s why there should be no gestational limits for abortion
August 12, 2019
Erica Millar
Family planning organisation and abortion provider Marie Stopes today warned that Australian women face a confusing patchwork of state-based laws and service shortages that restrict access to abortions, based on where they live.
At the centre of these inconsistent laws is the gestational cut off – the point where the pregnant person is no longer the primary decision-maker and, instead, specific criteria must be met (generally, two doctors must agree that the abortion is necessary on medical and/or social grounds).
Continued: https://theconversation.com/heres-why-there-should-be-no-gestational-limits-for-abortion-121500
Renewed push to change 'discriminatory' and 'inadequate' abortion laws in South Australia
By Rebecca Puddy
Posted Wed Oct 10, 2018
A push to repeal South Australia's abortion law is underway, with a coalition lobbying state parliamentarians to remove abortion from the state's crimes act.
The South Australian Abortion Action Coalition wrote to politicians last month, after securing a commitment from over 20 professional and community organisations to support the repeal of the law.
Continued: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-11/renewed-push-to-remove-abortion-from-crime-law-in-sa/10360138
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