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Pages tagged "Abortion"


NSW Greens' abortion bill endangers women

Posted on News · March 25, 2025 9:25 AM

On 19 March, our CEO Rachael Wong spoke to a rally of thousands outside NSW Parliament about the Greens' radical new abortion bill, which will harm women, children, health professionals, and our healthcare system. Watch or read her speech below and read more about our concerns in our letter to Premier Chris Minns.

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NSW Greens' attack on women, children and freedom - Our letter to Premier Chris Minns

Posted on News · March 20, 2025 1:45 PM

The NSW Greens are trying to pass a dangerous and authoritarian new abortion bill that is anti-women, anti-children and anti-freedom. Below is the letter we sent to NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns on 19 March 2025, asking him to lead his party in rejecting this radical law. You can also view or download the pdf version here.

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The great Senate inquiry mystery: where are all the prolife submissions?

Posted on News · May 08, 2023 7:22 PM

By Professor Joanna Howe 

It is highly concerning when a federal Senate inquiry buries the submissions and voices of Australians that it disagrees with. Yet, this is what has happened with the Senate Inquiry into Universal Access to Reproductive Healthcare, an inquiry with a primary goal of further entrenching on demand abortion, at any stage and for any reason, throughout Australia.

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A bill to protect babies born alive after an abortion shouldn't be controversial

Posted on News · December 09, 2022 5:06 PM

On 30 November 2022, Nationals Senator Matt Canavan and Liberal Senator Alex Antic, introduced a private members bill into the Australian Parliament that would protect the rights of children born alive after an abortion. The bill was sponsored by United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet.

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Blonde: A dark mirror on a world of sexploitation

Posted on News · November 24, 2022 5:21 PM

By Dr Emma Wood

A young Norma-Jean, early on in her career, poses for a family-friendly catalogue, wearing girlish, innocent-looking clothes, and sporting that post-war, picture-perfect, pearly-white smile. But the sultry soundtrack playing in the background – “Every baby needs a Da-Da-Daddy…” – tells us where this is going. As the montage of Norma Jean’s photoshoots progresses, each image becomes more sexualised, ending with an image of the young woman posing, bare-breasted, for a calendar.

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Facing unthinkable challenges about the meaning of “love”

Posted on News · November 07, 2022 4:08 PM

By Dr Emma Wood

The Sydney Morning Herald recently published one of the saddest abortion stories I’ve ever read. It is the kind of story that unsettles you, whether you regard yourself as “pro-choice” or “pro-life”. If you are pro-choice, the story forces you to come to grips with the humanity of the foetus. If you are pro-life, the story might cause you to wonder, even if momentarily, whether the principles by which you stand are sufficiently nuanced or compassionate.

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Australian journalist told to ‘do the world a favour’ and go get an abortion

Posted on News · October 10, 2022 4:20 PM

An Australian journalist has been told by an Instagram user to ‘go get an abortion’.

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Hawthorn Football Club scandal: We need to talk about abortion coercion

Posted on News · October 05, 2022 5:11 PM

By Stephanie Bastiaan

A review into the culture of AFL Hawthorn Football Club, which surfaced a couple of weeks ago, has raised serious allegations of bullying, abuse and racism from the club's hierarchy. The most harrowing accusation is that the partners of football players were pressured and coerced into terminating their pregnancies.

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Protestors call for ‘free, on demand abortions’ in Australia

Posted on News · July 06, 2022 6:25 PM

Over the weekend, protestors called for “free, safe, legal, on demand” abortions in Australia “in solidarity with US abortion rights protestors”.

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The end of Roe brings us closer to the world women and children deserve

Posted on News · June 26, 2022 2:30 PM

By Rachael Wong

The magnitude of what has just happened in the US is still setting in, and while many of us view it with hope, there are many others who see it as a tragedy. There will be more to say in the days and weeks to come, but these are my initial thoughts on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade and its implications for women and children.

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