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Abortion Care Is Health Care
Paperback Edition: 1
In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a system of predominantly private provision, which has imposed barriers to access on women already marginalised by poverty, rural and remote residency, lack of Medicare entitlement, racism and other factors. Tracing changes in the private sector, the long struggle to make medical abortion available and the nationwide decriminalisation of abortion since 2002, Baird introduces readers to the large cast of 'champions' and everyday healthcare workers and activists who have persisted in their commitment to make abortion care available when governments and the medical profession have so often failed.
Pages : 320
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Publication date : 2023-10-03
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in Australia, Social Sciences, Sociology, Ethical Issues: Abortion & Birth Control