A rally of 500 people answered the election of the new Liberal National Party (LNP) government in Queensland on November 1.听Alex Bainbridge reports.
Abortion
Abortion was finally decriminalised in every state and territory in Australia last year, but access remains difficult. While the procedure remains in some criminal codes, conservatives will seek to roll back our rights. Mary Merkenich reports.
Thousands rallied across Peru for International Safe Abortion Day on September 28, demanding the right to safe, accessible abortions. Hundreds marched through the capital, Lima, under the banner of 鈥淭he Right to Decide鈥, reports Ben Radford.
Alex Bainbridge reports that more than 2000 people marched through winter rain听on July 1 to protest the United States' Supreme Court overturning of abortion rights.
Rallies have been called in response to the US Supreme Court overturning听Roe v Wade.听Join a protest in your city.
Happening shows the importance of legal abortion through the experience of a young woman forced into backyard abortion in early 1960s France.听Barry Healy听谤别惫颈别飞蝉.
The new Texas ban on abortion, which was upheld by the United States Supreme Court, effectively enables vigilante justice, reports Barry Sheppard.
Abortion doctor and听long-term pro-choice campaigner Kamala Emanuel听outlines why abortion must be seen as a health issue, at an International Working Women's Day rally in Brisbane on March 8.
Pro-choice campaigners are hopeful that Argentinian president-elect Alberto Fern谩ndez will act on his promise to put a pro-choice bill to Congress.
Pro-choice activists rallied in Sydney on September 14 to call for the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW.
鈥淎ny law that places half the population at risk of criminality simply because of their biology is a ridiculous and unsupportable law鈥,
The rally came days before a bill was put before parliament.
A small counter-rally by the religious right was drowned out by pro-choice activists.
Anti-choice state MPs are seeking to add as many caveats as possible to a bill that seeks to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales and which has the support of medical, legal and feminist organisations.
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Supporters of the right to choose are pulling out all stops against the religious right鈥檚 attempts to derail a broadly sponsored abortion decriminalisation bill before New South Wales parliament.
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