Inquiry into Universal Access to Reproductive Healthcare

This submission is being made by The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW).

NFAW is dedicated to promoting and protecting the interests of Australian women, including intellectual, cultural, political, social, economic, legal, industrial and domestic spheres, and ensuring that the aims and ideals of the women’s movement and its collective wisdom are handed on to new generations of women. NFAW is a feminist organisation, independent of party politics and working in partnership with other women’s organisations.

NFAW believes that no matter where people are born and live, everyone seeking an abortion should have access to legal, safe, timely and compassionate abortion care.

Recommendations

1. The federal Government should provide universal abortion and contraception access
2. The federal Government should mandate the provision of, or referral to, reasonably accessible abortion services by medical professionals and pharmacists.
3. The federal Government should investigate and provide national leadership on nurse practitioner led access to medical and surgical abortions, and the parameters that might be appropriate to facilitate this.
4. The federal Government should provide leadership for harmonised laws across each State and Territory on legal access to abortion

 

 

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