Amy Coopes writes: Australian women face harmful inequities in access to abortion care, and obstetricians, gynaecologists and their College must do much more to push for change, a major meet... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Many hundreds of women rallied in Sydney yesterday under the hashtag, #VoteProChoiceNSW, ahead of a critical vote in the NSW Parliament this week to decriminalise ab... Read more
The NSW Government is set to debate a bill that will have it become the last state to decriminalise abortion. A new campaign has begun – #Arrest Us. In the early 1970s eighty women dec... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: This International Women’s Day (March 8), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is highlighting the crucial role of safe abortion care in preventing maternal mortality. Glo... Read more
Abortion legislation around the nation is inconsistent and out of date. But advocates of change have wondered – should they push for legislative reform? Or might challenging the status quo m... Read more
The arbitrary separation of refugee women and children by the Australian government and “record” female imprisonment rates are expected to come under scrutiny when Australia appe... Read more
The result of an Irish referendum held last weekend, which provided overwhelming support for liberalising the country’s abortion laws, has given Australians something to think about. The law... Read more
Angela Dawson and Xavier Symons write: People are absolutely appalled that in one of our states women are not getting access to safe terminations, and what I know is that in any decent socie... Read more
Professor Caroline de Costa, James Cook University writes: In June this year Greens MP Dr Mehreen Faruqi placed a bill on notice in the upper house of the NSW parliament to initiate debate o... Read more
Marie McInerney reports: Cairns-based obstetrician and gynaecologist Professor Caroline de Costa was last night named the recipient of the 2013 Sidney Sax Public Health Award, bestowed by th... Read more
