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I'm not reporting on this but a quick thread in case it is useful. Right now in South Australia the bill to decriminalise abortion is being subjected to expert-ignoring amendments to limit access similar to those attempted by anti-abortion MPs in NSW/QLD https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/abortion-law-reforms-debated-in-sa-parliament/news-story/97cf9628e7ae65001cd909023b28cb67
There is an amendment that requires doctors to rule out sex selection as a reason which, as doctors pointed out in other states, would require them be mind readers and could lead to racial profiling https://www.buzzfeed.com/ginarushton/nsw-abortion-amendments-doctors-mind-read
There is an amendment that removes the requirement of doctors with a conscientious objection to provide information to patients seeking abortion. You don't have to be a genius to see how that could impact access for vulnerable patients or those in an area with a few doctors
There's an amendment requiring doctors to provide counselling info to every patient. Counselling is already offered in private + public system so this amendment is redundant unless you believe it should be mandatory/people can't make choices without it https://www.buzzfeed.com/ginarushton/heres-the-problem-with-this-abortion-motion
There is an amendment that replaces the word ‘person’ with ‘woman’. This was attempted in NSW too and I can see no reason for it except to explicitly exclude patients of all genders from accessing care.
There is an amendment that seeks to further limit abortion after 22 wks so it is only available to ‘save a life’. There are circumstances in which a termination is required around that gestation for devastating foetal anomalies https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/29/women-who-require-late-term-abortions-are-being-demonised-in-australia-again
In fact here is the perfect case study - a woman in Adelaide, South Australia who told me about how she had to wait on an ethics board for days in hospital to terminate a very much wanted pregnancy at 24 weeks because her foetus was incompatible with life https://www.buzzfeed.com/ginarushton/this-woman-waited-in-hospital-for-days-to-terminate
