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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[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: -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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