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Nov. 15th, 2004 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyLatest news on abortion rights in Australia. In brief: Howard's cabinet discussed it at their first meeting today. Cabinet members' views mixed. PM not too keen on all this fuss.
Cabinet to start with full-scale abortion debate
Cabinet to discuss abortion - mentions a briefing paper which says counselling and sex education are "patchy" across the country. An excellent result from this hoo hah would be if sex education is improved - that would actually reduce the rate of abortions, especially amongst teens. As I don't believe this is genuinely the pollies' goal, I don't trust it to be the outcome.
PM warns Abbott over abortion view
No role for religion in politics: Latham. Now, he's talking about the separation of state (ave Pomona!), but there's a long history of hypocrisy on this point amongst politicians, who are most keen on that separation when the churches are criticising them. Latham does better when he pegs Abbott's hypocrisy. It's because of the separation (and I need to research how that works in Australia - parliament opens with the Lord's Prayer!) that anti-choice arguments (and anti-gay marriage arguments) are camouflaged with non-religious language. I don't think this fools a lot of people.
Abortion still a woman's right - SMH editorial
Cabinet to start with full-scale abortion debate
Cabinet to discuss abortion - mentions a briefing paper which says counselling and sex education are "patchy" across the country. An excellent result from this hoo hah would be if sex education is improved - that would actually reduce the rate of abortions, especially amongst teens. As I don't believe this is genuinely the pollies' goal, I don't trust it to be the outcome.
PM warns Abbott over abortion view
No role for religion in politics: Latham. Now, he's talking about the separation of state (ave Pomona!), but there's a long history of hypocrisy on this point amongst politicians, who are most keen on that separation when the churches are criticising them. Latham does better when he pegs Abbott's hypocrisy. It's because of the separation (and I need to research how that works in Australia - parliament opens with the Lord's Prayer!) that anti-choice arguments (and anti-gay marriage arguments) are camouflaged with non-religious language. I don't think this fools a lot of people.
Abortion still a woman's right - SMH editorial
