The overturning of Roe v Wade in the United States could reignite the debate about abortion access in Australia, and increase the stigma for people who terminate unwanted pregnancies. | niltiac roevwade abortion SCOTUS Photos: Rhett Wyman, Bloomberg
The overturning of Roe v Wade in the United States could reignite the debate about abortion access in Australia, and increase the stigma for people who terminate unwanted pregnancies.
“It is a really stark reminder to us that even rights that we have so-called won, because they are legislated, could be overturned or wound back and that could depend on the government of the day,” Kelleher said. Jane Caro, one of the speakers at a series of pro-choice rallies in the lead-up to NSW decriminalising abortion in 2019, said overturning Roe v Wade was a huge step backwards.“It reminds women all over the world and also in Australia that, in comparison to men, our rights are always equivocal. They’re up for debate and they can be taken off us,” Caro said.
Bonney Corbin, head of policy at MSI Australia , said the biggest implication for Australia was that it increased the stigma of abortion. She said abortion was unlikely to be overturned at a federal level because the National Women’s Health Strategy, announced by former health minister Greg Hunt, was bipartisan policy that called for universal, free or low-cost access to abortion by 2030.
Francis said the federal government should act to ban Medicare-funded abortion for sex selection and ensure babies that survived abortion and were viable were given medical care.
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