Abortion change is best hope
THE pregnant woman at the centre of Queensland’s abortion law standoff is pinning her hopes on legislation being fast-tracked into state parliament to allay doctors’ concerns about performing drug-induced terminations.
Jamie Walker
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Bligh to rewrite law on abortion
QUEENSLAND will rewrite part of its hotly contested law on abortion to accommodate doctors’ concerns about being prosecuted.
Ruling to shift abortions interstate
QUEENSLAND women facing medical abortions will have to go interstate because the state’s biggest hospital has scrapped its service.
Bligh legalises non-profit surrogacy
QUEENSLAND has fallen into line with the rest of the country by decriminalising not-for-profit surrogacy.
Premier faces call to act on abortion
LABOR senator Claire Moore has urged Anna Bligh to swing behind a renewed push to decriminalise abortion in Queensland, saying the Premier could “not hide” from the use of the existing law to prosecute a young couple in Cairns.
Abortion pill rules loosened
AUSTRALIA’S drug regulator has accepted that it is safer for women to terminate pregnancy than to give birth.
Abortion accused speaks out
THE couple charged with breaching Queensland’s century-old abortion laws, triggering the first prosecution of its kind, have told of how they were firebombed out of their home near Cairns.
Caught in abortion crossfire
SPARE a thought for Tegan Leach and her boyfriend, Sergie Brennan.
The climate of disastrous consensus
THE country’s foremost academic geologist laments the sidelining of scepticism.
For Dajka, there was no comeback
FOR a while, people dared to hope the old Jobie was back. At the Tour Down Under in January, he was mingling with the international riders at their base in Adelaide, smiling and fit, just as he was when he was the brightest prospect Australian cycling had seen for years.
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