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.
By Meg Whitfield
Feb 9, 2025
When Abi thinks back to her abortion, she remembers feeling deeply isolated.
"I kind of went through it in secret, and alone," she said. "And when difficult things came up, I had no-one to debrief [with]."
Accessing timely and affordable counselling services was difficult, and did not feel right for her circumstances.
Labor's abortion policy: all the issues explained
The opposition’s plan to allow open up sexual health services to more women raises key questions about access, cost and state laws
Josephine Tovey
Thu 7 Mar 2019
Labor has announced a national sexual and reproductive health strategy to improve access to contraception and abortion. A major plank of this policy is to “support all women to access termination services in public hospitals”, raising a number of crucial questions:
What has Labor announced?
As part of the broader package, Labor this week announced that if they’re elected, they would work to ensure abortion is provided “consistently” in public hospitals throughout Australia.
Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/07/labors-abortion-policy-all-the-issues-explained
Tasmanian Speaker Sue Hickey calls on Government to make abortion easier, cheaper
By Alexandra Humphries
Thu Nov 22, 2018
Tasmanian Speaker Sue Hickey wants free abortions for low-income women, and greater availability of pregnancy termination drugs.
Last week, the Government revealed Melbourne-based surgical termination provider Hampton Park Women's Health Care would begin performing procedures from the end of this month, after nearly a year without an abortion clinic in the state.
Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-23/sue-hickey-calls-for-free-abortions-in-tasmania/10547082
Low-cost surgical abortion provider announced for Tasmania
By Alexandra Humphries
Nov 15, 2018
A low-cost surgical termination provider will open in Hobart from the end of November, but there are concerns over the price of the procedure and accessibility for regional women.
The State Government has revealed the provider, named as Melbourne-based Hampton Park Women's Health Care, will begin taking referrals from Monday.
Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-16/tasmania-abortion-provider-announced/10505028
Tasmanian doctors fear Government reprisal if they speak out on abortion constraints
By Felicity Ogilvie
Tue June 12, 2018
An ABC investigation has encountered a culture of secrecy and fear surrounding the provision of surgical abortions in Tasmania.
While debate around providing surgical abortions in public hospitals unfolds in State Parliament, the medical community is doing what it can to make those services available now.
The closure of Tasmania's only abortion clinic in Hobart at the end of last year left women with limited options for getting surgical abortions.
Continued: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-13/abortion-figures-revealed-at-royal-hobart-hospital/9862034
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