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The women who can’t afford an abortion and can’t afford to wait
Vulnerable women are facing an agonising search for access to abortion that stretches well into their second trimester more than five years after pregnancy terminations were decriminalised in NSW.
- by Kate Aubusson
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Melania breaks ranks with Trump, declares she’s pro-choice
The former US first lady has been absent from Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. Her views on abortion now place her against the Republican message.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Trump doubles down on migrant deportation, Pope tells Catholics to vote for ‘lesser evil’
Pope Francis said migration was a right described in Scripture and it was a “grave sin” to not welcome strangers. He was equally blunt on the abortion stances of both candidates.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Former right-wing senator, Sky News host may get cabinet role if LNP wins power, MP suggests
Although denied by leader David Crisafulli, speculation has been rife that former conservative senator Amanda Stoker could be parachuted into an LNP cabinet.
- by Matt Dennien
‘Eating cats’: Fact-checking Trump’s false claims during the presidential debate
The Republican nominee and former president backed rumours about immigrants eating pets, then claimed he oversaw the most dynamic economy in the world.
Fentiman calls on LNP to be clear about its stance on abortion
The state government earlier this year passed laws to allow nurses and midwives to dispense the abortion pill MS-2 Step, and a health worker recruitment drive is under way.
- by Cloe Read
Infant mortality rate rose 8 per cent after Texas abortion ban, study shows
The researchers looked at how many infants died before their first birthday after the abortion ban in September 2021.
- by Devi Shastri
Florida’s ‘extreme’ abortion ban takes effect, doctors fear for women
Health care workers are prevented from performing an abortion on a nonviable pregnancy that they know may become deadly - until it actually becomes deadly.
- by David Fischer and Stephany Matat
The four-word slogan that Biden hopes will see him defeat Trump
Largely abandoning an effort to brand economic progress under the banner of Bidenomics, the president’s team has found a simpler slogan.
- by Lisa Lerer, Reid J. Epstein and Nicholas Nehamas
Trump, chasing undecided voters, flip-flops on Arizona abortion ban
Democrats are capitalising after Arizona’s high court upheld a 160-year-old abortion ban and put women’s health at the centre of the 2024 presidential election.
- by Joseph Ax and Jarrett Renshaw
France puts right to abortion in its Constitution, a world first
France has become the first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its Constitution, a move welcomed by women’s rights groups as historic and harshly criticised by anti-abortion groups.
- by Stephanie Lecocq and Gonzalo Fuentes
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