Last week, Labor announced a new $9.3 million policy that, among other things, would “progress the decriminalisation of abortion” in New South Wales and South Australia, and require public hospitals to offer free (taxpayer-funded) abortions as part of their Commonwealth funding arrangement.

By Charlene Sathi

On January 22, 2019, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo passed the Reproductive Health Act which has brought the most significant change to New York abortion laws since the historic Roe v. Wade. In this case, 46 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion until the point of viability, roughly at the 24-week mark. Conversely, this new law allows women to obtain a legal abortion at any point in pregnancy until full-term.