The Women鈥檚 Abortion Action Campaign聽was launched in 1972. Christine Smith discusses its origins and聽approach, and the聽need to be vigilant about reproductive health.
Crimes Act 1900 (NSW)
The overturning of Roe v Wade in the United States means that we have to be vigilant about extending聽reproductive rights in Australia. Adele Welsh takes a look聽at how abortion rights were won and what still needs to be done.
NSW needs to adopt a communicative model of consent, replacing a law which is convoluted and open to interpretation, writes Chloe de Silva.
鈥淚t is simple, straight forward: stay out of the lives of women鈥, implored one Liberal MLA as debate in the Legislative Assembly on a bill to decriminalise abortion in NSW entered its second day on August 7.
A decades-long feminist campaign to remove abortion from the anti-woman NSW聽Crimes Act聽is likely to take聽one more step towards victory with debate on a pro-choice private members' bill to begin in state parliament on August 6.
An abortion rights march was organised聽by high school students in Newcastle on July 21 wanting the health procedure to be removed from the Crimes Act in NSW.
The biggest and youngest and loudest abortion rights march for years was organised in Sydney on June 9.
As women and their allies around the world prepare to strike, rally and march on International Women鈥檚 Day, abortion rights are once again on the agenda in many countries.
The August 14 publication of a NSW local court ruling earlier in the year has again shone light on the state鈥檚 anti-abortion laws.
A 30-year-old woman was found guilty of attempting abortion and sentenced to a 3-year good behaviour bond. The court record describes the circumstances, but leaves important questions unanswered.
Women have again been let down by the majority of MPs in the NSW Legislative Council who voted down a Greens鈥 bill to decriminalise abortion on May 11.
The vote was 25 against and 14 in favour of Dr Mehreen Faruqi鈥檚 private members鈥 bill and it was greeted with cries of "shame" from the packed public gallery.
The decades鈥 long campaign to take abortion out of the NSW Crimes Act is coming to a head. A Greens bill to do this and enact safe zones around abortion clinics will go to the NSW Parliament on May 11.
There's a 鈥渉uge appetite鈥 for abortion law reform, Greens MLC Dr Mehreen Faruqi told a 150-strong meeting at the Glebe Town Hall on June 6. 鈥淲e've waited far too long already,鈥 she said.
The meeting was organised to launch Faruqi's decriminalisation of abortion bill, which is in its draft stage. The panelists included health professionals Philippa Ramsay and Juliet Richters, health laywer Julie Hamblin and Bethany Sheehan, a founder of My Body My Right, a group campaigning for a safe space outside abortion clinics.
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