Articles
Analysis of Senator
Ron Boswell's Questions on Notice to the Minister for Health and Ageing
- January 2005
By ARHA - 24 June 2005
On 31 January 2005, Senator Ron Boswell asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, Hon Tony Abbott MP, upon notice, to provide answers to a number of questions related to terminations of pregnancy in Australia. The answers were due for
tabling in the Federal Parliament on 2 March 2005, and were publicly available in the
Hansard from 10 May 2005.
This paper restates some of the more contentious questions, quotes partially
the responses
given by Senator Kay Patterson, on behalf of the Minister for Health and Ageing, and provides evidence-based research available to the broader public,
which gives more accurate answers and constitutes some of ARHA’s input into the
public debate.
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Sound and fury on
abortion belies the facts
By Marie Coleman - 12 November 2004
The Canberra Times, Friday 12 November 2004 WHEN national political
and clerical personalities promote a debate on an issue with significant
ethical and philosophic connotations through the use of misleading statistics,
the public is inevitably misled as to the facts.
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Abortion debate
threat to Hard-Won Rights
By Natasha Stott Despoja - 10 November 2004
Adelaide Advertiser Wednesday 10/11/2004 Women beware: this is the
warning shot across the bows of the women of the noughties. Become complacent,
shrug off feminism, and watch your rights go down the gurgler, including
your reproductive rights.
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Whose Life?
By Rachel Power - 01 November 2004
This article first appeared in Arena Magazine, No. 73, Oct–Nov 2004.
George Bush's policies on abortion and his invasion of Iraq can be seen as
part of the same ideology — one based on his professed belief in the sanctity
of human life and America's role as its protector. Bush's expectation that
the Iraqi people would be dancing in the streets with gratitude for the imposition
of US-style democracy is part of the same fantasy that sees a baby as a divine
being, a symbol of purity, entirely independent of the mother. In both cases,
there is inherent denial of sociological realities and a blind refusal of
responsibility for the brutal impact of his policies.
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Baby death rate
low, but still a worry
By Carol Nader - 16 September 2004
Australia has one of the lowest rates of infant mortality in the
world, but a greater proportion of babies die here compared to other Western
nations, a snapshot of the world's population shows.
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Solomon Islands
is feeling pressure from growing pain
By Jennifer Power - 11 July 2003
The Canberra Times, 11 July 2003 The Solomons isn't another Iraq.
Armed forces aren't entering Honiara to depose an evil dictator, despite
attempts by some to depict rebel leader Harold Keke as such. Australian troops
are going to the Solomons to bring an end to widespread civil violence, much
of which is perpetrated by the country's youth.
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Bush denying women's
rights
By Rachel Ingwersen
- 25 January 2002
The Canberra Times, 25 January 2002 UNITED States President George
W. Bush has just put on hold $US34 million ($A65 million) of funding to
the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, money which had been
agreed to by Congress as part of a foreign appropriations Bill ratified
by both Houses last month.
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