Australia – Scott Morrison sought advice to obstruct Nauru asylum seekers from accessing abortions, documents reveal

Advocate claims Abbott government was concerned asylum seekers and refugees were using medical transfers as a back door to get into Australia

Krishani Dhanji
Sat 7 Jun 2025

Scott Morrison overrode medical advice in the case of an asylum seeker in offshore detention trying to access an abortion, and had previously sought advice that would effectively prevent access to terminations entirely, ministerial advice reveals.

Documents released under freedom of information laws show Morrison, in 2014 as immigration minister, had sought advice to deny the transfer of women to a hospital on the Australian mainland to access termination services before 20 weeks’ gestation.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/08/scott-morrison-sought-advice-to-obstruct-nauru-asylum-seekers-from-accessing-abortions-documents-reveal-ntwnfb

07.06.2025

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Max was circumcised as a baby. He wishes he could reverse it every day

Your body, but whose choice? From abortion and death to circumcision, vaccination and even amputation, who should have the final say in how we choose to live?

3 March 2025
By Caroline Riches

Who decides what you can and can't do with your own body? From conception to death and everything in between, including circumcision, vaccination and amputation, Insight explores the laws, ethics and pressures that dictate our bodily autonomy. Watch at 8.30pm Tuesday 4 March on SBS or live on SBS On Demand.

Max Roberts was born in the late 1950s and, like the majority of Australian boys at the time, he was circumcised a few days later. Now 67, Max is still angry he was never given the choice about his own body. Nor were his parents.

Continued: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/article/i-was-circumcised-as-a-baby-i-wish-i-could-reverse-it-every-day/o0kgia7ai

Australia – Additional funding for abortion access all but ruled out

By political reporter Stephanie Dalzell
Feb 10, 2025

Health Minister Mark Butler has all but ruled out additional federal funding to address unresolved issues about abortion access in public hospitals, insisting the issue remains a matter for the states and territories.

The federal government has announced a $573 million package for women's health, vowing to significantly lift Medicare rebates for long-term contraceptives.

Continued: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-10/butler-rule-out-abortion-access-funding/104919260

10.02.2025

How the US right-to-life movement is influencing the abortion debate in Australia

How the US right-to-life movement is influencing the abortion debate in Australia

August 21, 2019
Prudence Flowers

As the abortion decriminalisation bill gradually makes its way through the NSW parliament, opponents have been increasingly drawing on their long relationship with the right-to-life movement in the United States to lobby against the measure and try to push for more restrictive amendments.

This has been a trend in the anti-abortion movement in Australia for a while now. Activists have adopted some of the most successful elements of the US movement’s rhetoric and tactics in recent years in an effort to influence the debate in Australia.

Continued: https://theconversation.com/how-the-us-right-to-life-movement-is-influencing-the-abortion-debate-in-australia-121974

Nauru scraps proposed abortion laws for refugees and asylum seekers

By Michael Walsh 7, Nov 11, 2016

The law change was opposed by both government and opposition MPs in Parliament. The Nauruan Government has withdrawn a bill that would have legalised abortions for refugee and asylum seeker women.

Nauru's Border Protection Minister David Adeang introduced the bill to the Parliament last week, but in a rare sign of disunity, it was opposed by both government and opposition MPs.

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Source: MSN.com

11.11.2016

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