A few days ago I heard about an organisation that has been set up to mobilise churches and anti-abortion groups against RU486. “Australian Against RU486 is a coalition of concerned groups and individuals including pro-choice people campaigning on medical, ethical or moral grounds to keep ban on RU486. The coalition includes eminent doctors, physicians, academics, […]

In her brief to Federal MP’s presumably to inform them before their chance to locate and exercise their conscience, leading obstetrician Professor Caroline de Costa, from James Cook University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Queensland, said that in several cases pregnant women had traveled to Auckland and Wellington to make use of New Zealand’s […]

When a federal Health minister and his parliamentary secretary are unable to see past their belief-systems to scientific data it is time for them to go. This is the case for Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne.  Both are unable to accept that the abortion law stands and Australian women, the men who support them and […]

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 […]

The Democrats, specifically their leader senator Lyn Allison is not alone in her request to have Mifepristone made available to Australian women outside the current arrangement which involves a direct request to the Health Minister Tony "too many abortions" Abbott. Respected obstetrician Professor Caroline de Costa of James Cook University has come out in support […]