A new ‘born alive’ bill has been brought before federal parliament. While it won’t pass, it reveals the strategies of the growing anti-abortion push.
- Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Human Sciences and Culture, Flinders University
Despite a long history of being pro-choice, Pauline Hanson is adopting an array of Trumpian tactics – including trying to wind back abortion access.
Doctor Shelley Sella was one of just a few who openly performed late-trimester abortions in the US. Her memoir, Beyond Limits, is also the story of the abortion wars.
Jessie Murph wants you to love her ‘like its 1965’ – but 1965 was a pretty terrible time to be a woman.
Opponents of abortion used to say ‘love them both’, but recent protests in New South Wales show how the strategy has taken a more confrontational tone. But why?
Under a second Trump presidency, anti-abortion laws will be tightened, while Australian pro-life activists will likely to emboldened as well.
Energised by Roe v Wade being overturned in the US, a subset of Australian conservatives are embracing the tactics that dominate American politics.
Immigration has become a central issue of the 2024 presidential election for Trump and the Republicans. How did Republican rhetoric change so dramatically on the issue?
Com muita frequência, as mulheres são julgadas apenas por uma lente biológica. Segundo a autora “Nosso valor, nossa capacidade de contribuir de forma significativa para a sociedade, é reduzido à nossa capacidade de reprodução”.
Too often, women are judged solely through a biological lens. Our value, our ability to contribute meaningfully to society, is reduced to our ability to reproduce.
For decades, presidents and presidential aspirants have tried (with varying degrees of success) to use music and musicians to connect with voters.
Harris is assertive and confident on the issue, while Trump and his running mate seem to be at odds over strategy.
Democrats now have an issue to mobilise voters. For Republicans, however, it’s more complicated.
Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
This is more than a huge political and legal decision. Almost half of US women and girls of reproductive age live in states where abortion is – or will become – illegal.
The end of Roe v. Wade would dramatically impact reproductive rights in the US. It would also likely have symbolic consequences globally.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion rights are returned to the states, access to abortion will be a geographical lottery – and the poor and marginalised will suffer.
A more conservative court could choose cases that incrementally erode abortion rights, or they could push for reconsideration of the constitutional issues at the very heart of Roe v. Wade.
The Australian right-to-life movement is tiny compared to the US, but its recent adoption of US-style campaign strategies has given it an outsize voice in the debate here.
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