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Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales

posted by janrinok on Friday September 20 2019, @12:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-is-Bill-anyway? dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday September 20 2019, @02:25PM

    by Freeman (732) on Friday September 20 2019, @02:25PM (#896497) Journal

    Just like there is no right to borrow or take someone else's organs or blood to keep yourself alive, there is no human right to reside in someone else's body against their will. So, it has a stake in nothing.

    And that's really the only question: Is there a general human right to forcibly use someone else's organs to keep yourself alive, or not? The answer to that question is no; there is zero precedent for such a right. So, it doesn't matter if the baby got there due to people being 'irresponsible' or not, because regardless of that, it has no right to be there. Thus, the woman can - or should be able to - terminate the pregnancy at any time.

    Insane ramblings justifying the killing of innocents by Anonymous Coward, seems legit. You don't want to have a kid. Great! Don't have a kid! Just don't make choices that end up with you being pregnant. Give the kid a couple years to make up their own mind and in 99.999% of cases, the kid would choose life.

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