| Petition Request | Stating strong opposition to the Abortion Law Reform (Miscellaneous Acts
Amendment) Bill 2016 and the Summary Offences Amendment (Safe Access to
Reproductive Health Clinics) Bill 2017, stating that the Abortion Law Reform
(Miscellaneous Acts Amendment) Bill 2016, by repealing all laws punishing
unlawful abortion, increases potential dangers to women by removing
restrictions against unqualified persons performing an abortion including
self-administered abortions, that the bill allows the abortion of viable babies
right up until birth without restriction, that the bill fails to include
safeguards to ensure women give fully informed consent and that the bill
overrides any professional or conscientious objection that practitioners may
have to abortion, that the bill disregards the reality that many women have
abortions as a result of pressure, coercion, lack of support or domestic
violence from others, particularly their male partners, that the bill removes
protections for the health of women, that both bills limit freedom of speech
and freedom of assembly for New South Wales residents, and that both bills
ignore the reality that women readily access abortion in New South Wales with
between 25,000 and 35,000 abortions per year in this state, and requesting that
the House unanimously oppose the Abortion Law Reform (Miscellaneous Acts
Amendment) Bill 2016 and the Summary Offences Amendment (Safe Access to
Reproductive Health Clinics) Bill 2017. |
