Tag: Abortion
Close down Australia’s cities to save Abyan?
Posted by John, October 18th, 2015 - under Malcolm Turnbull, Nauru, Peter Dutton, Rape, Refugees.
Tags: Abortion, Abuse, Abyan, Asylum seekers
Comments: 1
The one tactic the refugee movement hasn’t tried to date, apart from activists undertaking essentially stand alone actions, is arguing for and then trying to mobilise the thousands who turn out to rallies around a specific call for civil disobedience. My suggestion is that the left begin agitating to occupy the centre of the capital cities until Abyan is bought back to Australia for medical treatment and try to build just such a movement in the next week.
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Banning entry into Australia is not the way to fight domestic violence or anti-abortion bigotry
Posted by John, October 1st, 2015 - under Racism, Women's oppression.
Tags: Aboriginal community closures, Aborigines, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Abortion, Domestic violence
Comments: 1
Here was a great opportunity to build a united mass movement against the oppression of women and indigenous Australians. Instead the focus was on getting the state to take top down action that does absolutely nothing to address domestic violence, anti-abortion bigotry, racism or women’s oppression. This is the very state which drives and reinforces that racism and oppression. There is nothing to cheer about in banning Brown and Newman.
Abortion rights: hands off women’s bodies
Posted by John, February 6th, 2014 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Abortion
Comments: 7
It should be really simple: the state keeps its hands off women’s bodies. Yet abortion is currently the subject of criminal law in all states and territories except the ACT, writes Roz Ward in Red Flag.
Bernardi’s counter revolution
Posted by John, January 6th, 2014 - under WorkChoices.
Tags: Abbott, Abbott government, Abortion, Cory Bernardi, Fair Work Act
Comments: 3
Why won’t one of the Labor Left or Greens politicians make the obvious call – the only way to defend our side’s gains from attack by Abbott and Bernardi is by striking and with massive demonstrations?
Abortion rights struggles of the past
Posted by John, October 16th, 2013 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Abortion
Comments: none
Access as well as “rights” is crucial for working class women, so issues such as the cost of contraceptives, doctors’ bills, access to hospital care and the like still need to be campaigned about. Stella Browne summed up what we’re still fighting for: “Abortion … should be available for any woman without insolent inquisitions, nor ruinous financial charges, nor tangles of red tape. For our bodies are our own.”
Beating back the bigots
Posted by John, October 15th, 2013 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Abortion, Bigotry, Fighting back
Comments: 1
An all-out offensive against abortion rights isn’t on the agenda at this point, and the crew at the bigot rally are, for now, an isolated minority writes Jessica Lenehan in Red Flag. But they are a minority with serious financing and political connections. Under an Abbott government they will be seeking to increase their clout. We’ll be ready.
Abortion: Anna Bligh is the guilty one
Posted by John, October 15th, 2010 - under Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: Abortion, Anna Bligh, BlighBorg
Comments: 1
Only a mass movement from below can force the do-nothings from Labor to legalise abortion.
Playing politics with women’s lives: The Stupak Amendment and US health care ‘reform’
Posted by John, November 20th, 2009 - under US politics.
Tags: Abortion, America, Health care, Health reform
Comments: none
The Stupak Amendment passed during the House debate on health care in the US is a blow to women’s abortion rights–poor women in particular.
Abortion and democracy
Posted by John, October 5th, 2009 - under Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: Abortion, Democracy
Comments: 8
The majority of Australians support abortion on demand; the majority of politicians don’t or, more accurately, won’t. According to a new study in People and Place Journal 57 percent favour a women’s right to abortion without restrictions. One third support abortion in specific circumstances. Only 4 percent oppose abortion on any grounds. 45 percent of Catholics […]
Why join the anti-abortion ALP?
Posted by John, August 21st, 2009 - under Labor Left, Labor Party, Peter Garrett.
Tags: Abortion, ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian politics, BlighBorg
Comments: 1
Anna Bligh is a classic example of the futility of joining the ALP to change the world. A major Brisbane hospital has now banned abortions because of the lack of clarity in the criminal laws, the laws Bligh said yesterday she would not change. The ALP host has taken over the leftist parasite. I have a […]