A Stone’s throw
Thank you Dr. Sharman Stone for pointing out the obvious inequality that exists in terms of access to safe and confidential abortion services in rural and remote areas of this big country we live in.
I hope the three most anti-choice men (Abbott, Boswell and Joyce) leave you and all other women to exercise their reproductive rights, including the right to access free, safe abortion.
Paradoxically, the State of World Population 2005 report of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund was launched today. One of the key findings reveals that,
"Each year more about 529,000 women die of pregnancy related causes that are mainly preventable. Lack of access to contraceptives in the developing world results in 76 million unwanted pregnancies and an estimated 19 million unsafe abortions worldwide each year."
How many of the 19 million unsafe abortions will be performed in Australia as many women are denied access to free, safe and confidential abortion services because of their lack of proximity to a capital city?
I’m hoping John talks to Tony and Tony says "Yes Sir!"
October 14th, 2005 at 12:05 am
Somebody ought to put it to Joyce like this: You fall off your barstool and break your arm. You can have a surgery to pin your arm or take this new wonder pill that fixes the problem in a day or so. Which is medically safer?
While it is rare, women DO die from complications of surgical abortions done under sterile medical conditions. If anyone opposes RU486 in Australia, they are voting for women’s lives to be risked. Abortion is legal in Australia. No reasons for RU486 not to be used to make it safer.
October 14th, 2005 at 12:14 am
To extend your analogy, let’s say that Joyce is in a small country town where there is no surgeon and the GP has known him and his extensive, extended family since he was 11, and doesn’t treat ‘accidents’ that happen involving barstools.
October 14th, 2005 at 9:43 am
Well, Suki, righteous, god-fearing girls don’t get themselves in compromising positions with barstools, you know… so I suppose a few of them dying doesn’t matter, does it?
October 14th, 2005 at 9:51 am
Yep, I’d be happy to see a few barstools dead.
Particulalry those that present all polished and sturdy and able to support your weight, however the moment you need to actually sit down on it the thing collapses.
October 14th, 2005 at 9:53 am
Clearly, the solution is total abstinence from barstools, Suki.
October 14th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
I don’t think Abbot has gotten over the fact that the world knows he unzipped before marriage.
October 23rd, 2005 at 1:04 pm
yeah JahTeh, I have been wondering how his marriage is going these days. They had a Bali holiday. Nothing planted in their luggage either.
I came here to make a point about people who break an arm after a drunken fall should have to live forever with the painful result of their amoral life and should not be allowed to have the arm fixed.