Abortion

• Roe v Wade overturned – will it set a precedent for Australian law?

  25th Aug 2022

  Unpacking the details and context of ‘arguably the most well-known legal case in the English-speaking world’: Roe v Wade, Geoff Baldwin looks to the past to illuminate the future.

• SA abortion laws outdated: Politicians urged to accept SA Law Reform Institute recommendations

  6th Dec 2019

  Recommendations to reform outdated abortion laws, made by the South Australian Law Reform Institute in a report released this week, have been welcomed by the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) in SA.

• Lawyers welcome NSW Bill to remove abortion from Crimes Act

  29th Jul 2019

  Moves to reform NSW’s outdated abortion laws are long overdue said the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA), giving its support to the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 to be tabled in Parliament this week. 

• Abortion Decriminalisation (QLD) and International Human Rights P2

  15th Sep 2016

  Denying women the right to access pregnancy termination services violates their rights in many different ways. Decriminalising abortion is not about morally or ethically condoning it. It's about recognising the dangerous consequences of its criminalisation – for women, girls and medical practitioners.

• Abortion Decriminalisation (QLD) and International Human Rights P1

  8th Sep 2016

  On 10 May 2016, former ALP and now independent Cairns MP, Rob Pyne, introduced a private member’s bill into Queensland parliament to decriminalise abortion. Abortion and its facilitation, assistance and procurement have been criminal acts under Queensland law since 1899. Haven’t social and community standards changed in all that time? Well, “yes” and “no" - Benedict Coyne discusses.