New data reveals that only three public hospitals in New South Wales provide surgical abortions outside emergencies, leaving most cities and towns as 'abortion deserts'. Greens MP Dr Amanda Cohn criticizes the limited access and calls for public hospitals to be obligated to provide abortion services, comparing it to essential healthcare like diabetes management or knee replacements.
Data published by Guardian Australia on Tuesday that shows just three public hospitals in the state provide surgical abortion outside of emergencies. The majority of the state’s cities and towns are ‘abortion deserts’.Data published by Guardian Australia on Tuesday that shows just three public hospitals in the state provide surgical abortion outside of emergencies. The majority of the state’s cities and towns are ‘abortion deserts’.
But when Guardian Australia asked 15 local health districts which of their public hospitals provide abortion, and under what circumstances, none responded. They did not respond to questions around what happens to a woman denied an abortion. “Decriminalising abortion in NSW five years ago was a critical first step but since then far too little has changed,” she said. “When abortion was still in the Crimes Act in NSW, people travelled from across western NSW to Wodonga to access care, where I was working as an abortion provider.Dr Amanda Cohn has given notice of a bill that would allow nurse practitioners and midwives with appropriate training to prescribe medical abortion.
Dr Madeleine Belfrage, from the University of Sydney’s Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre, was among the researchers“We are yet to see the necessary changes in the health system to ensure that abortion is provided as routine healthcare,” she said. Asked about the lack of information at a press conference on Tuesday, the NSW treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, said: “Of course the health minister has been dealing with that issue and we did intervene to ensure that abortion services are available in certain regional hospitals when they were going to be withdrawn.”
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