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In its 1972 debut issue, Ms. Magazine ran a bold petition in which 53 well-known U.S. women declared that they had undergone abortions�despite state laws rendering the procedure illegal. These women were following the example of a 1971 manifesto signed by 343 prominent French women, who also had declared they had abortions. Even then, to many [...] Welcome to your regular Reproductive Choice Australia update. We need your help Although Christmas is fast approaching there is a few things that we can do to help in the campaign to give Australians greater reproductive choice. 1. Sign the petition to Get Politics Out of Medicine and forward the link to at least five friends so we [...] Thanks to the efforts of key women MPs and Senators from all sides of politics, such as Sharman Stone, Julia Gillard, Tanya Plibersek, Jan McLucas, Claire Moore, Lyn Allison and Natasha Stott Despoja (+ many others), there is a very real possibility that the restrictions on access for women to RU-486 could be overturned. The Prime [...] The Health Insurance Commission (which administers Medicare) has been threaning some abortion providers with prosecution if they continue their decades-long practice of bulk-billing Medicare for the termination as well as charging an upfront fee for counselling. As a result, claim abortion counsellors, a number of the providers in NSW will no longer bulk-bill therefore [...] 1. NSW Court Case could weaken abortion laws – see my article in the Sydney Morning Herald read here 2.In February this year I posted an item “What Ron Wants to Know” setting out the questions on abortion put on the Senate Notice paper by Senator Ron Boswell. I have been able to [...] The US Democratic Party is becoming depressingly like the Australian Labor Party when it comes to women’s issues: don’t want to know and won’t do anything. The party’s leader Howard Dean last week chose to walk away from abortion, rather than defend women’s right to choose as this comes under increasing threat from the [...] |
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