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Abortion law
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Fast trainspotting
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Hamilton, Higgins and hot air
Crikey readers on Clive Hamilton’s Higgins tilt, abortion law, dangerous emails, whether Mike Carlton is a shock jock and the “most stupid” item we’ve ever published.
Can it ever be ethical to let women die?
So refusing an abortion should be a doctor’s right, even if that refusal may see a woman die? asks Leslie Cannold. Religious freedom is important, but it shouldn’t trump other human rights.
Victorian abortion law: overriding the conscience of doctors
Victorian doctors who oppose abortion are legally obliged to be involved. The law doesn’t just legalise abortion, it silences dissent, writes Sinclair Davidson.
Why doctors can’t decline an abortion
Last years abortion law changes in Victoria raise some interesting ethical issues for doctors. Even doctors that are morally anti-abortion must now legally participate in it, explains Julian McGauran.
Bligh faces fresh dissent over abortion law
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is facing fresh dissent in internal party ranks over the future of abortion law reform, despite at least 60% of the Queensland public supporting a woman’s right to choose.
Abortion stand-off continues — and Queenslanders pay
It’s time for Queensland’s antiquated abortion laws to change. Anna Bligh must instigate reforms that will benefit women and give legal certainty to doctors, writes Caroline de Costa.
Has Bligh ‘pawned her political soul’?
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is a member of the Labor party, right? asks Paul Syvret. Because her actions regarding abortion and selling public assets seem to ignore her party’s principles.
National abortion discussion needed
Politicians may fear it, but abortion needs to be openly debated in Australia and not a topic “hijacked by the loopies at either end” and controlled by insurance companies, writes Claire Harvey.
Fiery QLD parliament expected post abortion changes
Queensland’s government will today rush through changes to protect doctors who perform drug-induced abortions. Which will prompt a full blown parliamentary debate on abortion, write Rosemary Odgers and Steven Wardill.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Abortion in QLD and equal pay for women
Crikey readers weigh in on the decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland, equal pay for women and anti-discrimination in religious organisations.
Bligh is right to resist abortion radicals
The political impasse on abortion in Queensland shows that there is still a debate to be had in this country about the human rights of the unborn, writes Jim Wallace.
Bartlett: QLD govt have no choice but to act on abortion laws
It’s time the Queensland parliament acted to change the state’s laws on abortion, with the situation for individual women seeking an abortion and for doctors prepared to provide now totally untenable.
Abortion in Queensland: an illegal ambiguity
Abortion is still technically a crime in Queensland. The longer Premier Anna Bligh hesitates to decriminalise abortion, the more she loses support from Queensland women, writes Professor Caroline de Costa.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: In defence of Facebook
Crikey readers defend Facebook, and discuss abortion laws, Telstra bills, same-sex marriage and more.
The abortion law reform saga continues in Queensland
We have been forced not to resume the practice of medical abortion in Cairns until there is a clear legal framework in which we can care for our patients, and in which we can be certain that those patients, as well as ourselves, do not risk prosecution, write Caroline de Costa and Michael Carrette.
