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NSW Greens MLC and spokesperson for Health Amanda Cohn introduced the private members bill on abortion.

Abortion was made legal six years ago. So why has a new fight erupted?

Laws around access to abortion are back up for debate in NSW – here’s why, and where MPs stand on the new bill.

  • Frances Howe

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BreastScreen clinics and a mobile van is available in Sydney.

Big change for BreastScreen NSW services this month

BreastScreen NSW services will begin reporting breast density, amid emerging evidence that women with dense breasts have a higher cancer risk.

  • Nigel Gladstone
The wellness industry has questions to answer.

Albo, please tell me you haven’t bought into this ‘wellness’ con

You know the industry is cooked when you have a Married at First Sight groom calling himself a “wellness advisor”.

  • Kate Halfpenny
Queenwood Senior Girls School year 9 students Evie Davis, Sonia Punter and Chloe Abbott attended a pelvic pain workshop yesterday at the school in Mosman. MARCH 21, 2025. Photo: Max Mason-Hubers

This program is helping girls stay in school, but NSW students are missing out

NSW is the only state that doesn’t fund endometriosis and pain workshops for public school students despite research revealing one in four girls miss classes due to period pain.

  • Emily Kaine and Angus Thomson
Courtney Rattle has spent her life battling anorexia, she is now a mother to a nine-month-old daughter, Anya.

‘Absolutely brutal’: The hidden group at risk of eating disorders

Pregnancy and menopause are close behind puberty as high-risk periods for eating disorders and body image issues in women. So why isn’t more help available?

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Eman Allouche battled severe body image issues as a teenager and similar thoughts returned after she had a baby.

‘It took a toll’: Body dysmorphia hurts more than self-esteem

New research shows that body dysmorphia can lead to cognitive difficulties and hurts decision-making and planning.

  • Broede Carmody
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The state government has pledged $42.3 million for IVF treatment.

Cheaper IVF and endometriosis treatments on PBS pledged by Labor

Thousands of Australian women will soon save hundreds – and in some cases, thousands – of dollars a year for fertility, contraception and endometriosis treatments under an ALP pledge.

  • Millie Muroi
Shifra Bendet, with dogs Bruno, Ollie and Piper, says freezing her eggs around eight years ago took the pressure off making choices around her fertility.

Shifra’s frozen eggs will reach a legal expiry date. What happens to them when time runs out?

Many early adopters of egg freezing are not well-informed about the emotional and psychological realities of disposing of unused eggs when their deadline is up.

  • Wendy Tuohy
With surgical enhancement to breasts – a powerful erogenous zone – “a woman may gain the power to elicit male desire, but in so doing she relegates herself to the erotic sidelines.”

Forget ‘crowd-pleasing’ breasts – for more joy, focus on feeling: a surgeon’s view

A doctor contemplates what is, she believes, the most exploited – and serially underestimated – female body part of all.

  • Gabriel Weston
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Despite forceful WFH agenda, Dutton makes pledge to women voters

The opposition leader has promised female voters there won’t be an American-style reversal of women’s rights if he becomes prime minister.

  • Sylvia Jeffreys

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/women-s-health-1mxu