The growing push to wind back reproductive rights
It didn’t make it through the lower house, but anti-abortion activists say it was the most successful pro-life campaign in Australia.
Anti-abortion activists say it was the most successful pro-life campaign in Australia – last week a bill to overturn abortion access after 25 weeks was passed by the upper house of South Australia’s parliament.
It didn’t make it through the lower house, but women’s advocates are still sounding the alarm amid a growing push against reproductive rights – led, in part, by One Nation.
Pauline Hanson, once a supporter of a woman’s right to choose, has changed her tune, as her colleague Malcolm Roberts pushes for the party to adopt a blanket abortion ban.
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Today, writer, peer-support worker, and reproductive health advocate Hannah Bambra on the local and international forces looking wind back abortion access in Australia.
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