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New NSW bill to threaten reproductive rights

Pro-choice activists fear that a new bill, soon to go to NSW parliament, will pose a threat to women鈥檚 reproductive rights. 鈥淶oe鈥檚 law鈥 will create a new offence that recognises crime or harm against a foetus. The Crimes Amendment (Zoe鈥檚 Law) Bill 2013 No. 2 was introduced by Liberal MP Chris Spence. It is named after the stillborn daughter of Brodie Donegan, who was 32-weeks pregnant when she was hit by a car on Christmas day in 2009 near Ourimbah on the central coast. Donegan suffered severe injuries and an emergency caesarean was too late to save the foetus.

Don't agonise, organise against Abbott's agenda

So Tony Abbott is the new prime minister. The Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor governments delivered this outcome with the narrow self-interest of its MPs and mafia-like faction heads and its desperation to prove itself as the best managers of the system for the billionaire class.