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Queensland committee rejects bill to protect babies born alive after abortion

Ronan — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:53:14 +0000

Queensland babies that survive late-term abortions are legally left to die by the doctors and midwives who deliver them.

Traeger MP Robbie Katter introduced the Babies Born Alive Bill earlier this year to protect these newborns under the law.

However, a parliamentary committee recommended that the government reject the bill this week.

Under the current law, health practitioners are not obligated to provide care to unwanted, though otherwise healthy babies.

From 2018 to 2022, 161 Queensland babies past the 20-week mark were abandoned to die after surviving their abortion.

If you include babies born alive after abortion who are younger than 20 weeks, the number of abandonments leading to neonatal deaths expands to more than 200.

Queensland committee rejects bill to protect babies born alive after abortion

Minister for Women ‘considers' hospital funding tie to abortion

Ronan — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:53:26 +0000

Australian Federal Minister for Women Katy Gallagher says the government should do more to make abortions accessible to women. She has left open the possibility of tying hospital funding to abortion provision in her National Press Club address on gender equality held last week.

Answering a journalist's direct question about whether the Labor government would revive its 2019 policy tying Commonwealth funding arrangements to the provision of termination services, Gallagher offered a vague response and did not rule it out.

If the policy were to be revived, around 20 public hospitals operated by Catholic Church bodies in the country would be captured, including St Vincent's Health Australia and Calvary Health Australia.

Minister for Women ‘considers' hospital funding tie to abortion