Abortion
Fentiman calls on LNP to be clear about its stance on abortion
The state government earlier this year passed laws to allow nurses and midwives to dispense the abortion pill MS-2 Step, and a health worker recruitment drive is under way.
- by Cloe Read
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Infant mortality rate rose 8 per cent after Texas abortion ban, study shows
The researchers looked at how many infants died before their first birthday after the abortion ban in September 2021.
- by Devi Shastri
Florida’s ‘extreme’ abortion ban takes effect, doctors fear for women
Health care workers are prevented from performing an abortion on a nonviable pregnancy that they know may become deadly - until it actually becomes deadly.
- by David Fischer and Stephany Matat
The four-word slogan that Biden hopes will see him defeat Trump
Largely abandoning an effort to brand economic progress under the banner of Bidenomics, the president’s team has found a simpler slogan.
- by Lisa Lerer, Reid J. Epstein and Nicholas Nehamas
Trump, chasing undecided voters, flip-flops on Arizona abortion ban
Democrats are capitalising after Arizona’s high court upheld a 160-year-old abortion ban and put women’s health at the centre of the 2024 presidential election.
- by Joseph Ax and Jarrett Renshaw
France puts right to abortion in its Constitution, a world first
France has become the first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its Constitution, a move welcomed by women’s rights groups as historic and harshly criticised by anti-abortion groups.
- by Stephanie Lecocq and Gonzalo Fuentes
Abortions have declined among childbearing Victorian women. This could be why
The trend is being driven by those living in metropolitan areas, and rates of abortion have increased among regional and rural women.
- by Aisha Dow
Nearly 65,000 rape-related pregnancies estimated after US abortion bans take effect
While campaigning for the Republican nomination in recent months, Trump’s position has occasionally blamed the extreme policies of the anti-abortion movement for the GOP’s recent electoral losses.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘Finally’: After 50 years of abortion work, one recent reform means a lot to Dr Chan
From childhood, Victor Chan knew he wanted to work in medicine – he just didn’t know it would involve being called a murderer.
- by Liz Gooch
Abortion decriminalised in WA under sweeping reforms
The laws passed 25 votes to six after a conscience vote in the upper house on Wednesday.
- by Aaron Bunch and Hamish Hastie
WA minister reveals abortion experience after 1990s rape ordeal
Jackie Jarvis revealed she became pregnant after being date-raped in her 20s, and shared her experience in seeking an abortion.
- by Hamish Hastie