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[In Australia,] State's upper house drags feet in passing law legalising abortion despite an overwhelming 75-percent support by voters.
The Reproductive Health Care Act 2019, which seeks to bring the state in line with the rest of Australia, would allow abortion up to 22 weeks. It was passed by the state lower house in August, with 59 votes in favour and 31 against. The bill's backers say the change will protect women and reduce some of the stigma associated with the procedure, but the legislation has attracted intense debate and national attention.
Barnaby Joyce, a former deputy prime minister, claimed the bill ignored the rights of unborn children and, at an anti-abortion rights rally over the weekend, former prime minister Tony Abbott alleged the move to decriminalise would enable "infanticide on demand".
Terminations have existed in a legal grey area - allowed for health or economic reasons, but still carrying a risk of prosecution. "We need to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and give women autonomy over their decisions," Family Planning NSW Medical Director Dr Deborah Bateson told Al Jazeera.
A survey released this month by Pro-Choice NSW showed that more than 77 percent of the state's residents support decriminalisation.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday September 20 2019, @12:35AM (9 children)
77% of the population approve decriminalization of abortion.
The tactic by the News Corp newspapers and radio stations is to raise the level of noise by giving providing heaps of page space and air time to boneheads like Tony Abbot and Barnaby Joyce.
They did the same with the same-sex marriage - unfortunately for them boneheads, they directly asked the population that time.
And no, I'm not calling the characters boneheads because their stance on abortion. It is because they are proper boneheads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @12:45AM (3 children)
Your comment is fake news. The truth is that the left wants as many abortions as possible. Crooked Hillary and the anti-American squad want to kill as many babies as possible.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @12:53AM
I estimate that 90% of Australia's population are at the left of what usians call left.
Even the Australia's right is left of US center.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by julian on Friday September 20 2019, @03:54AM
Exactly. As explained by the band Copstabber, More Abortions! [youtube.com]
Really though, we want as many abortions as necessary; which will be decided by individual women and their physicians.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday September 20 2019, @06:38PM
Look at the contrast between Obama's kids and Sarah Palin's kids. It was the white Christian trash having illegitimate kids. Not the black folks.
It's the right wingers who keep cutting support for children and parents. You're not a white Christian, you should be punished for existing.
It's the same with pay equity between the sexes - at current rates it will take 85 years, unless you're black, in which case it's 275 years at current rates.
This is wrong. It's about as racist and sexist as Canada's Prime Minister going around in blackface and being unable to answer how many times he's done it.
But this is what white male privilege looks like. Totally unselfaware, going to private schools, teaching in private schools, where you are going to find nobody willing to say "dude - that's fucked up. Do that in the public school system and you're going to get the beats as a student, or fired as a teacher."
That's why we need to ban private schools, including religious schools. There's a difference between education and indoctrination, including indoctrination into white male privilege that treats women and minorities as shit to be ignored when they can't be exploited.
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @01:19AM (4 children)
That 77%. Who are they voting for that it doesn't match up in parliament? I mean, is it possible to be pro-choice and vote for anti-choice politicians? Does that seem logical?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday September 20 2019, @01:32AM (1 child)
Well, it is rational:
- it's a matter that is secondary to you and you make a compromise on it at voting time (and keep your fingers crossed that the issue won't surface); *and/or*
- it's a matter that didn't play during the electoral campaign, so you didn't know the position of the candidate you voted for.
As for the matter of being logical? I find nothing related to politics (or even democracy) as logical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @03:33AM
People ignore the periphery at their own peril.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday September 20 2019, @01:40AM
re. The voters: It's probably not the main issue for most of them. I would guess at least 50%, maybe as high as 90%, vote on economic grounds. Many of the rest vote based on other issues.
re. The Act: It's more about reducing stigma and improving access than stopping punishment. In the last 25 years, only 12 people have been prosecuted and 4 convicted of having an abortion. The harshest sentence was a doctor given a two-year good behaviour bond.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 20 2019, @07:33PM
Single-vote issues. "We'll vote for X because he opposes immigration, and ignore the fact that he also opposes abortion, freedom of speech, women's right to vote, anyone who isn't a Christian, and keeps a bust of Adolph Hitler on his desk".