Why join the anti-abortion ALP?
Anna Bligh is a classic example of the futility of joining the ALP to change the world. A major Brisbane hospital has now banned abortions because of the lack of clarity in the criminal laws, the laws...
View ArticleAbortion and democracy
The majority of Australians support abortion on demand; the majority of politicians don’t or, more accurately, won’t. According to a new study in People and Place Journal 57 percent favour a women’s...
View ArticlePlaying politics with women’s lives: The Stupak Amendment and US health care...
Elizabeth Schulte in the US magazine Socialist Worker explains why the Stupak Amendment passed during the House debate on health care is a blow to women’s abortion rights–poor women in particular....
View ArticleAbortion: Anna Bligh is the guilty one
A Cairns jury has found 21 year old Tegan Leach not guilty of procuring an abortion. While this is a victory for Tegan and all those who supported her, the rotten law criminalising abortion in...
View ArticleBeating back the bigots
“Abortion is homicide” read the shirt of one anti-choice protestor approaching us this morning. He was just one of the hundreds attending the annual March for Babies organised by Victorian Liberal...
View ArticleAbortion rights struggles of the past
Writing in the Communist (UK) in 1922, activist and sometimes socialist Stella Browne insisted that birth control “is no less essential than workshop control and determination of the conditions of...
View ArticleBernardi’s counter revolution
Arch reactionary Senator Cory Bernardi has released his book ‘The Conservative Revolution’. Counter revolution is perhaps a better description. Bernardi called the pro-choice movement pro-death. He...
View ArticleAbortion rights: hands off women’s bodies
It should be really simple: the state keeps its hands off women’s bodies. Yet abortion is currently the subject of criminal law in all states and territories except the ACT, writes Roz Ward in Red...
View ArticleBanning entry into Australia is not the way to fight domestic violence or...
Peter Dutton, the Minister for Immigration and Border Control, has issued a Notice of Intention to Consider Refusal to rapper Chris Brown. In 2009 Brown was convicted of assaulting his then partner,...
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Close down Australia’s cities to save Abyan?
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have sent Abyan, the Somali woman raped on Nauru and now 14 weeks pregnant, back to the concentration camp there without any...
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