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.

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.

Today, Liberal MLC Ben Hood introduced the Termination of Pregnancy (Terminations and Live Births) Amendment Bill 2024 (Bill) to the South Australian Parliament.

By Professor Joanna Howe

The federal Senate inquiry into reproductive healthcare has released its long-awaited report.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.