“Too many abortions”: The growing push to wind back reproductive rights
6/21/202616 min
Anti-abortion activists say it was the most successful pro-life campaign in Australia - last week a bill to overturn abortion access after 25 weeks was voted through the upper house of South Australia’s parliament.
It didn’t make it through the lower house, but women's advocates are still sounding the alarm amid a growing push against reproductive rights - led, in part, by One Nation.
Pauline Hanson, once a supporter of a woman’s right to choose, has changed her tune, as her colleague Malcolm Roberts pushes for the party to adopt a blanket abortion ban.
Today, writer, peer-support worker, and reproductive health advocate Hannah Bambra
on the local and international forces looking wind back abortion access in Australia
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Guest: Writer & reproductive health advocate Hannah Bambra
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First 90 secondsDaniel James· Host0:00
[gentle music] I'm Daniel James, and you're listening to 7:00 AM. Anti-abortion activists say it's the most successful pro-life campaign in Australia. Last week, a bill to overturn abortion access after 25 weeks was voted through the upper house of South Australia's Parliament. It didn't make it through the lower house, but women's advocates are still sounding the alarm amid a growing push against reproductive rights, led in part by One Nation. Pauline Hanson, once a supporter of a woman's right to choose, has changed her tune as her colleague Malcolm Roberts pushes for the party to adopt a blanket abortion ban. Today, writer and reproductive health advocate Hannah Bamborough speaks with Ruby Jones about the local and international forces looking to wind back abortion access in Australia. It's Monday, June 22.
Barnaby Joyce· Soundbite0:59
[audience cheering] If it was legal, if by some perverse form of logic it was legal to kill toddlers if they were of the wrong sex, we would have a demonstration that would go from here over the Harbor Bridge all the way to Manly and all the way out to Blacktown. Yet, for some unknown reason, if they're in utero,