My abortion is acceptable simply because it is a decision I made. I am thankful to be in Australia | Hannah Ferguson
Australian politicians are using the US election to fan the flames of a fire we thought had been put out. It must be extinguishedLast month I sat on the toilet seat staring down at the cheapest pregnancy test I could find at the supermarket. My mind went blank. I knew before the white strip could tell me. I was pregnant.I live in Sydney. Abortion was decriminalised in New South Wales in 2019. It is almost five years to the day that my healthcare decision hasn’t been legislated under our criminal code. As Australia takes agonisingly slow steps forward, the US regresses faster than someone can say “I have concepts of a plan”. The supreme court’s reinstatement of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban this week affirms this. Continue reading...
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Australian politicians are using the US election to fan the flames of a fire we thought had been put out. It must be extinguished
Last month I sat on the toilet seat staring down at the cheapest pregnancy test I could find at the supermarket. My mind went blank. I knew before the white strip could tell me. I was pregnant.
I live in Sydney. Abortion was decriminalised in New South Wales in 2019. It is almost five years to the day that my healthcare decision hasn’t been legislated under our criminal code. As Australia takes agonisingly slow steps forward, the US regresses faster than someone can say “I have concepts of a plan”. The supreme court’s reinstatement of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban this week affirms this.
Continue reading...
