By Alyssa Talakovski
05 June 2026
A South Australian upper house MP plans to introduce her third bill in under two years to restrict late-term abortions, but local GPs have an advocacy plan of their own.
Upper House MP Sarah Game, formerly of One Nation, wants to ban abortions after 25 weeks unless necessary to save the mother’s life.
SA-based sexual health GP Dr Clare Keogh warned The Medical Republic the proposal may deter vulnerable patients from seeking care.
By Thomas Kelsall and Kathryn Bermingham
May 20, 2026
South Australia's parliament is set to debate restrictions on late-term abortion for the third time in less than two years.
Anti-abortion campaigners are hopeful the newly elected upper house, comprised of three new One Nation members, will pass the legislation.
Upper house MLC Sarah Game, formerly of One Nation and now an independent, introduced legislation on Wednesday to place new limits on abortions after 25 weeks.
Those who oppose all forms of abortion, use later abortions as a wedge issue to attack all abortion access.
by Dr. Roma Dhamanaskar
April 30, 2026
Creating unnecessary panic around later abortions is a political tool to promote controversy around access to abortion in Canada. Later abortions, which are those occurring after 20 weeks’ gestation, are uncommon and occur for a variety of complicated medical and social reasons.
Anti-choice politicians and activists attempt to rally opposition for abortion rights by presenting later abortion as a key issue when it comes to abortion access in Canada. Using later abortion as a scapegoat to create opposition to abortion access is problematic for many reasons.
Continued: https://rabble.ca/feminism/why-we-shouldnt-engage-in-the-later-abortion-debate/
Nov 30, 2025
By James Walker
A RECENT review of Scotland's abortion laws led to widespread right-wing outrage last week. One clip that went particularly viral was a GB News segment featuring Lois McLatchie Miller, who works for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
“The Scottish Government have commissioned a report to suggest that they allow abortion all the way up to birth for most social reasons,” she told the broadcaster’s presenters.
Continued: https://archive.is/lcmwa
(https://www.thenational.scot/news/25659692.inside-right-wing-push-abortion-rights-scotland/)
Recently published videos show the co-founder of a pro-life group posing as someone interested in accessing an abortion, including at a clinic in Toronto
Gabe Oatley
Nov 21, 2025
One of the country’s leading pro-choice organizations is raising alarm about a new social media campaign it says is distorting public perception of abortion access in Canada.
Over the past 10 days, RightNow, a pro-life advocacy organization, has released a series of videos on social media showing the group’s co-founder, Alissa Golob, allegedly speaking with staff at four Canadian clinics in 2023 about getting an abortion.
November 2, 2025
Hosts: Billi FitzSimons • Sam Koslowski
Podcast – 12:41 minutes
Last week, late-term abortions came up as a point of contention in Australia’s Parliament.
It’s all because of a new proposed bill that would make it illegal for companies to cancel paid parental leave if a baby dies or is born stillborn.
So what’s the connection between that and late-term abortions? And how common actually are late term abortions?
Continued: https://thedailyaus.com.au/podcast/why-politicians-are-talking-about-abortions-again
By Natassia Chrysanthos
October 29, 2025
Four Coalition MPs have renewed a debate over “late-term abortions” in federal parliament, raising concern that laws guaranteeing paid leave for parents of stillborn children will be used by mothers whose pregnancies are terminated.
Outspoken MPs Andrew Hastie and Barnaby Joyce aired the issue during debate over “Baby Priya’s Bill” – a proposed amendment to existing laws that would ensure employers can’t cancel paid parental leave because a child is stillborn or dies.
September 2, 2025
Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
Review: Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care – Shelley Sella, MD (Random House)
In the United States, around 1% of abortions occur after 21 weeks. Yet these abortions are intensely vilified. Recall Donald Trump’s graphic and false claim that US laws allowed doctors to “rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day”.
For two decades, Dr Shelley Sella provided abortion care in the US into the third trimester of pregnancy: that is, after 26 weeks gestation. Her new book Beyond Limits offers an intimate account of health care and politics, written from the front lines of America’s abortion wars.
In Australia, abortion after 20 weeks gestation is also statistically rare – and most Australians agree that people need abortions after 20 weeks for a variety of medical and social reasons. However, in the last year or so, the focus on later abortions seems to be intensifying here, along with misinformation.
Landmark changes to abortion legislation earlier this week will doubtless spark fiery debates at heatwave barbecues. Here, Claire Cohen explains how Gen Z women can take the sting out of discussions about those who opt to terminate their pregnancies after 24 weeks
Saturday 21 June 2025
Claire Cohen
My mother remembers that, when she was a child, a friendly woman, probably in her thirties, lived next door. One day, that woman was gone. Another neighbour had helped her to carry out a “backstreet abortion” – in the days when terminating a pregnancy was illegal, but coathangers were not – and she’d bled to death in her own home.
I don’t even know her name. But I thought of that poor woman this week when MPs voted overwhelmingly to stop women in England and Wales from being prosecuted for ending a pregnancy outside the law – for instance, after 24 weeks. Thank goodness, I thought, we live in a nation where women no longer have to risk death or imprisonment in desperate situations.
Continued: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abortion-decriminalised-24-weeks-shelagh-fogarty-b2774030.html
After discovering that her baby had a rare genetic disorder, Rowan Pelling reflects on choosing to terminate her pregnancy at 12 weeks
Rowan Pelling, The Telegraph
18 June 2025
There is no silence more ominous that the deadly hush of a previously chatty sonographer carrying out a 12-week nuchal scan on a pregnant woman’s belly.
I remember the sudden knitting of her brow and an ill-disguised attempt to mask serious concern. I could no longer look at the screen, so I turned to my husband Angus, whose face was dark with anxiety. He told me afterwards that he could already see our tiny, frog-like baby’s emerging features looked somehow “wrong”.
Continued (full access): https://archive.is/OpBwv
Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/18/my-experience-shows-women-must-allowed-late-stage-abortions/
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