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dreamer_easy) wrote2009-01-15 09:49 am
dreamer_easy) wrote2009-01-15 09:49 am
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Reproductive Freedom
Sign a petition asking President-Elect Obama to repeal the global gag rule ASAP. (Australia has a gag rule of its own - I'm still trying to find out more about that.) Americans for UNFPA has a timeline of US funding of overseas reproductive health services.
In Australia, Tasmanian ALP Senator Guy Barnett's Bill to remove Medicare funding for second trimster and late-term abortions prompted a Senate inquiry, which released its report last November. (The inquiry's only recommendations were for the definitions of medical terms to be clarified.)
From NSW: Coalition will leave abortion law alone.
ETA: I posted a while back about Australian teens' lack of knowledge about safe sex - the full October 2008 report from Marie Stopes, Sex: Telling It Like It Is is available online as a PDF.
In Australia, Tasmanian ALP Senator Guy Barnett's Bill to remove Medicare funding for second trimster and late-term abortions prompted a Senate inquiry, which released its report last November. (The inquiry's only recommendations were for the definitions of medical terms to be clarified.)
From NSW: Coalition will leave abortion law alone.
ETA: I posted a while back about Australian teens' lack of knowledge about safe sex - the full October 2008 report from Marie Stopes, Sex: Telling It Like It Is is available online as a PDF.