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Pages tagged "Abortion"


There’s nothing funny about abortion

Posted on News · September 09, 2020 1:25 PM

By Rachael Wong 

Tomorrow HBO Max is releasing ‘Unpregnant’, a road trip comedy about abortion, based on the young adult novel of the same name. Yes, you read that correctly, a comedy about abortion.

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Medical abortions put rural women at greater risk

Posted on News · August 20, 2020 12:20 PM

By Rachael Wong

Activists in South Australia are calling for abortion laws to be changed urgently, saying that the current laws are inhibiting access to abortion, particularly for regional women.

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Victorian doctor who raped daughter and forced her to have an abortion jailed for 16 years

Posted on News · July 27, 2020 9:40 AM

By Rachael Wong

A 74-year-old Victorian doctor, who was still working until last year, has been sentenced to 16-and-a-half years in prison, after sexually abusing his daughter for a decade.

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We need to talk about prenatal screening

Posted on News · July 08, 2020 3:48 PM

By Rachael Wong

 

It’s time we had an honest and considered conversation about prenatal screening for disability.

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Miracle story of abortion survivor and the reunion with her birth mother

Posted on News · July 06, 2020 4:39 PM

“Melissa Ohden is the survivor of a botched abortion. You heard that correctly. You see, Melissa’s birth mum was eight months pregnant when her mother forced her to terminate her pregnancy. She was given a toxic saline solution over five days and it should have killed Melissa. In fact, she was thrown out as medical waste. But a nurse heard her weak cries and against all odds, Melissa, weighing barely a kilo, was revived, and ultimately adopted by a loving family.”

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China forces abortions, IUDs and sterilisations on Uighur women

Posted on News · July 02, 2020 1:53 PM

By Rachael Wong

 

In a concerted campaign to control its Muslim population, an Associated Press investigation has revealed that the Chinese Government is forcing pregnancy tests, IUDs, abortions and sterilisations on hundreds of thousands of Uighur women and other ethnic minorities.

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NSW Abortion Campaign Not About Women's Health

Posted on News · March 03, 2020 12:00 AM

A new campaign to 'decriminalise' and modernise' abortion laws in NSW was announced last week by an alliance of sixty ‘pro-choice’ groups. The ‘NSW Pro-Choice Alliance’ want abortion to be removed from the Crimes Act and ‘regulated like any other health procedure’.

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Abortion Reform At Odds With Authentic Feminism

Posted on News · September 17, 2019 2:42 PM

By Carolyn Fiddelaers

Today, the NSW Legislative Council resumed debate on the controversial abortion bill. As a woman, a feminist, a disability advocate, and a health professional, I wholeheartedly disagree with this radical law reform being pushed in NSW, which imitates the extreme reforms adopted in my own state of Victoria in 2008. I am opposed to the reform for the simple reason that it doesn’t protect any woman. In any way.

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Abortion And Mental Health

Posted on News · May 20, 2019 1:57 PM

Mental health outcome after abortion is a question that won’t go away in a hurry.

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The Unforgotten Babies

Posted on News · April 29, 2019 1:43 PM

By Marina Young

Some passions are born out of life experiences and others just by wanting to make a positive difference in the world. For me it’s both. In my life, I have made bad choices and I have craved love and acceptance. But I came to realise that it is never too late to start to make good decisions for the future.

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