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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 barbara hudson on Friday September 20 2019, @06:04PM (5 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday September 20 2019, @06:04PM (#896590) Journal
    Just because vasectomies aren't free in the USA doesn't mean they aren't free in more civilized countries with universal health care. Go beat up your Congress critters and senators until they respect your basic human rights to health care - or move.

    Free vasectomies, free treatment for prostate diseases, free treatments for erectile dysfunction - much of the world consider this to be a basic right for men.

    Or you can continue to vote for money for obsolete F35 jets that can't take out a drone costing 1/1000 the price. Ask Saudi Arabia how naked they feel with all that latest tech. As always, you keep spending money to fight the previous war, even as the nature of warfare changes every generation.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:07PM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:07PM (#896801) Journal

    Uhhhhhmmmmmmm - waitaminnit. I should petition my representatives to cut my nuts, and to do it for free? You can be whatever, Barbie, but fuck if I'm going to ask my government to cut on men's manhood.

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday September 27 2019, @04:47PM (3 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday September 27 2019, @04:47PM (#899633) Journal
      There are plenty of military servicemen who are quite happy that the government is paying surgeons to "cut on" (your term, not mine) their penises to repair them after injuries mangle them. And let's not forget the penis transplants. Are you saying Stefan's should be permanently out of service because they were wounded by an IED?
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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 27 2019, @11:21PM (2 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 27 2019, @11:21PM (#899729) Journal

        Nice change of subject. A vasectomy has almost zero relationship to repairing combat damage. Or, non-combat damage for that matter.

        • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday September 28 2019, @12:28AM (1 child)

          by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday September 28 2019, @12:28AM (#899744) Journal
          You're the one who said that you were not in favour of the government paying for "cutting on manhood." That's certainly not a vasectomy reference, since (in case you didn't know) vasectomies don't involve any cutting of penis or testicles. But what would you have against publicly funded vasectomies anyway? It's a lot cheaper than litigation over who pays for an unwanted pregnancy or an abortion.

          It's also one way to help deaf with the climate crisis and too many people competing for ever fewer resources such as clean air and water.

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          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 28 2019, @03:20PM

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 28 2019, @03:20PM (#899938) Journal

            You're being - what? Intentionally obtuse? Whether it's a snip-snip-snip, or a knife stroke, or whatever, a vasectomy involves a "cut".

            The small tubes in your scrotum that carry sperm are cut or blocked off, so sperm can’t leave your body and cause pregnancy.

            If it's done with a meat cleaver, or an IUD, or a poleaxe, there's a "cut".

            What happens during a no-scalpel vasectomy?
            The doctor makes one tiny puncture (hole) to reach both vas deferens tubes — the skin of your scrotum isn’t cut with a scalpel. Your tubes are then tied off, cauterized, or blocked. The small puncture heals quickly. You won’t need stitches, and there’s no scarring.

            No-scalpel methods — also called no-cut or no-incision — reduce bleeding and lower the risk of infection, bruising, and other complications.

            So, even your "no cut" vasectomy involves a cut.