Amy Coopes writes: Some 300,000 women will die across the globe this year as a result of pregnancy and one-quarter of them will be adolescent girls, according to a leading obstetrician-gynae... Read more
Amy Coopes writes: Australian women face harmful inequities in access to abortion care, and obstetricians, gynaecologists and their College must do much more to push for change, a major meet... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Many hundreds of women rallied in Sydney yesterday under the hashtag, #VoteProChoiceNSW, ahead of a critical vote in the NSW Parliament this week to decriminalise ab... Read more
The NSW Government is set to debate a bill that will have it become the last state to decriminalise abortion. A new campaign has begun – #Arrest Us. In the early 1970s eighty women dec... Read more
In this latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell reports on New Zealand’s new “wellbeing budget”, the latest news in palliative care, and moves... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: This International Women’s Day (March 8), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is highlighting the crucial role of safe abortion care in preventing maternal mortality. Glo... Read more
Abortion legislation around the nation is inconsistent and out of date. But advocates of change have wondered – should they push for legislative reform? Or might challenging the status quo m... Read more
The result of an Irish referendum held last weekend, which provided overwhelming support for liberalising the country’s abortion laws, has given Australians something to think about. The law... Read more
In the latest edition of The Health Wrap, Associate Professor Lesley Russell looks at emerging detail from the #HealthBudget18, particularly its impact on women (most negatively on women wit... Read more
Earlier this year the Senate passed a Greens motion calling on the Federal Government to ensure safe, surgical abortions are available in public hospitals across Australia. The motion called... Read more
