Download or read book Never Ever Again written by Caroline De Costa and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues strongly for the need for abortion law reform right across the country - so that the tragedies of the past and the tragedy of the present can never occur again. Never, ever, again.

Download or read book Abortion in Australia written by Anthony Fisher and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abortion written by Pip Hinman and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Choice Words written by Louise Swinn and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma. Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion is a cri de coeur; a passionate appeal from writers, thinkers, musicians, actors, comedians, activists and political staffers, offering personal stories of abortion alongside historical records and political anecdotes. At a time when abortion is a criminal act and prosecution is a real risk in parts of Australia, this book is needed more than ever. In 2018, the world watched aghast when a Tasmanian woman lost her job at a high-profile sporting agency for tweeting the truth: even in states where abortion is legal, access can be nearly impossible. This treasury of stories highlights the sheer, unspoken commonality of abortion. Women have been dealing with the risks and the fall-out for longer than there is record. It is poignant, wise, funny and true; a salute to those who have been working in the field, a celebration of how far we've come, an electrifying caterwaul at how far we still have to go, and a clarion call to action. -- Contributors include Jane Caro, Claudia Karvan, Laura Jean, Melissa Lucashenko, Emily Maguire, Tara June Winch, Michelle Law, Tony Birch, Melanie Cheng, Anne Summers, Gideon Haigh, Monica Dux, Bri Lee, Jenny Kee, and a Foreword by Tanya Plibersek. Proceeds from Choice Words will go to the charity Marie Stopes Australia, the only national, independently-accredited, not-for-profit safe abortion provider, that has helped more than 600,000 women in the past twenty years. Foreword by The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP Angela Williamson Jane Caro Monica Dux Rosie Waterland Van Badham Eleanor Limprecht Shirley Barrett Claudia Karvan Jenny Kee & Grace Heifetz Jane Gleeson-White Sarah Firth Clem Bastow Melissa Lucashenko Bri Lee Michelle Law Brooke Davis Gideon Haigh Jess Scully Melanie Cheng Meredith Burgmann Gabrielle Blair (DesignMom) Catherine Deveny Caroline deCosta Amy Gray Tara June Winch Laura Jean Emily Maguire Ellena Savage Anne Summers Samantha Maiden Gina Rushton (Buzzfeed) Zoya Patel Maxine Beneba Clarke Tony Birch

Download or read book Gatekeepers of Abortion in Australia written by Jennifer Beattie and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion law in Australia is not consistent across the states and territories, but the common characteristic is that an abortion can be lawful where a medical professional is involved. A number of authors have therefore argued that this positions doctors as 'gatekeepers' to abortions (Leslie Cannold 2000, Janet Hadley 1996, Heather Douglas 2009, and de Crespigny & Savulescu 2004). This characterisation of 'gatekeeping' suggests that doctors perform a regulatory function over women's reproductive decisions. However, without examining the emergence and the practice of this gatekeeping role, it only remains an assertion that doctors regulate women's abortion choices. The design of this thesis draws on the work of Foucault, in particular his approach to studying power. It accepts Foucault's position that power exists only when it is put into action (Foucault 1982, 788). My study of gatekeeping examines the gatekeeping role through this lens, examining how the social expectation of regulation for doctors established under the law aligns with how doctors practice this regulation. With this in mind, the thesis draws sequentially on multiple sites for investigation, including law, education and medical practice, moving from the framing of abortion legislation through to the decision-making practices of doctors. This thesis finds that the law in all Australian jurisdictions relies on doctors to perform a function that is not legally or institutionally well-defined, but instead is shaped by and relies upon the values and beliefs held by individual doctors. There is thus a legal expectation of regulation established by the gatekeeping role, but doctors can exercise their own judgement in how they choose to practice the role. The thesis concludes that abortion law in Australia involves balancing the rights and responsibilities of women and doctors in the context of the social contentiousness of the abortion issue. The law balances multiple factors, from the protection of women's choices to women's health needs, and the legality of the doctor in facilitating access to the procedure to the rights of doctors to practice medicine according to their own conscience. This results in variable consequences for women seeking abortions, depending on the presiding doctor.

Download or read book Abortion Issues written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australia 1 in every 4 pregnancies is terminated, with 80,000 women undergoing abortion every year. International research shows that women will still seek abortion, even if it is illegal, and a number of surveys reveal a majority of Australians support the idea of safe and legal abortions. Abortion laws are different in each Australian state and territory, yet some of the legislation is vague and open to interpretation. This book explores the topic in two chapters: Abortion Options; and The Abortion Law Debate. What can be done to avoid unplanned pregnancy in the first place; if a woman finds herself in this situation, what are the options? Should Australia¿s abortion laws be standardised? What are the pro-choice and pro-life arguments in relation to decriminalisation, availability of non-surgical abortion (RU486), late-term abortion, birth defects, the health of the expectant mother, the status of the fetus, and conscientious objections of health practitioners? Whose rights should prevail in this ethically complex debate?Chapter 1: Abortion OptionsChapter 2: The Abortion Law DebateGlossary; Fast Facts; Web Links; Index

Download or read book Information and Views from the Abortion Law Reform Association of South Australia written by Abortion Law Reform Association of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abortion Care is Health Care written by Barbara Baird and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a system of predominantly private provision, which has excluded women already marginalised by poverty, rural and remote residency, lack of Medicare entitlement, racism and other factors. Tracing changes in the private sector, the long struggle to make medical abortion available and the nationwide decriminalisation of abortion since 2002, Baird introduces readers to the large cast of ‘champions’ and everyday healthcare workers and activists who have persisted in their commitment to make abortion care available when governments and the medical profession have so often failed. Drawing on oral history interviews conducted nationwide with abortion-providing doctors, nurses, counsellors and managers, women’s health workers, academics and community activists, Baird brings a critical feminist analysis to create a sophisticated historical narrative of abortion provision over the last thirty years.

Download or read book Report on Legal Medical Social and Political Aspects of Abortion Relevant to Western Australia September 1977 written by Abortion Law Repeal Association of Western Australia and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Information Paper on Termination of Pregnancy in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Regulation of Abortion in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abortion Law Repeal Association of Western Australia written by Abortion Law Repeal Association of Western Australia and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When You Were Formed in Secret written by Gary Bergel and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abortion Regimes written by Kerry Anne Petersen and published by Dartmouth Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The regulations of abortion through legal controls have always been a problematic issue. This book places abortion in the context of reproductive medicine and explores the medicalization of abortion and the ethos of professionalism. Although the forms of legal regulation vary throughout western jurisdictions, the constant and most influential factor underlying these laws is the power of the medical profession. The medicalization of abortion has largely removed abortion from the public arena and has buried the issue under the cloak of medical autonomy. This book considers historical and contemporary issues surrounding the evolution of abortion law and speculates on future directions in abortion law and policy.

Download or read book The Racket written by Gideon Haigh and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force. With forensic skill and psychological subtlety, Gideon Haigh brings to life a story of corruption in high places and human suffering in low, of murder, suicide, courtroom drama, political machinations, and of the abortionists themselves: among them a multi-millionaire philanthropist, a communist bush poet, a timid aesthete and a bankrupt slaughterman. It is the story, too, of Bertram Wainer, abortion's crash-through-or-crash campaigner, and the moral issue he bequeathed which still divides Australians.

Download or read book Abortion the Unenforceable Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abortion and the Law in New South Wales written by Talina Drabsch and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper is primarily concerned with the regulation of abortion in New South Wales (NSW). It examines the law relevant to abortion in NSW, and compares it to the position in other jurisdictions in Australia and overseas. However, it also provides a brief overview of some aspects of the current debate, including issues surrounding the abortion pill, late-term abortions and 'bubble zones'."--p. 1.