Public hospitals to provide free abortions under Labor

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Federal Labor's policy on supporting women's reproductive rights includes looking at ways to expand access to medical terminations and contraceptives.

Public hospitals will have to consistently offer abortion services as part of commonwealth funding agreements under a federal Labor government.

At the moment, there is a patchwork of service provision, with some women turned away from public hospitals when they need to end a pregnancy and then not being able to access or afford to go to a private clinic, or having to travel hundreds of kilometres for care.'Historic': Queensland reacts to abortion decision

Labor would also establish an online community to support doctors providing medical terminations using RU486, and review the Medicare rebate associated with this service. The party would look at ways to improve access to contraception, including examining New Zealand's arrangements to allow doctors to give three-year prescriptions for the contraceptive pill.

Therapeutic Goods Administration to advise on options to improve access to the contraceptive pill, including three-year prescriptions.

 

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Labor is officially becoming a party of murder of infants. Insanity within the Greens & Labor. Put those parties last. Contraceptives are already available via PBS, terminations are restricted to first few weeks & only at some private hospitals, cannot be provided by the state.

The accessibility of tubal ligation & vasectomy as a contraceptive choig should be improved too - not everyone can or will use LARCs.

Bill Shorten wants to increase refugee,intake at the same time kill off the unborn

anything to reduce the local population so the replacement with those who will dual citizenship will be even faster

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