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THE consultant at the centre of the treatment of an Indian dentist who died in an Irish hospital after a miscarriage has admitted there were system failures in her care.
THE consultant at the centre of the treatment of an Indian dentist who died in an Irish hospital after a miscarriage has admitted there were system failures in her care.
MEDICAL abortion could become government funded if an application by Marie Stopes for PBS listing of mifepristone and misoprostol is successful.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will be judged on his long-held views on abortion and IVF access despite his chief-of-staff going public about his support for her IVF attempts, says Attoney-General Nicola Roxon.
HEALTH chiefs have launched investigations following the death of a woman in an Irish hospital after she was refused an abortion.
TWELVE Indian doctors have been suspended for allegedly conducting prenatal sex tests, a practice banned to stop the abortion of female fetuses that has widened India's gender gap.
AN ANAESTHETIST accused of infecting 56 women with Hepatitis C at a Melbourne abortion clinic has pleaded not guilty to 168 charges after being committed to stand trial.
AUSTRALIA has recorded its first death related to the use of mifepristone for medical abortion.
BRITAIN'S broadcast advertising body has given the go-ahead for private abortion clinics to advertise their services on television, angering those who say the move desensitises the public to the practice.
A RELATIONSHIP breakup may have important health implications, with a study showing those newly single are at three times the risk of contracting an STI and twice as likely to have an abortion. In a random sample sexual behaviour survey of 4800 women and 4000 men aged 18–44 years, about a third of those who were sexually active had experienced a breakup in the past five years. The French study found 3% of the individuals in the breakup cohort tested positive for chlamydia, compared with 1% whose relationship status had not changed. Women who had separated ...
It’s been a tumultuous year on the political scene. MO counts down the major events of 2010.
THE new national pregnancy helpline has received three times more calls compared with the old service, which barred counsellors from discussing abortion. The Federal Government’s $17.1 million dollar Pregnancy, Birth and Baby Helpline, introduced in July, attracted 4000 callers in its first four months. The pregnancy line replaced the Howard Government’s contentious National Pregnancy Support Helpline, which declined to provide abortion advice to callers. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott set up the new helpline in 2007, after he failed to prevent the introduction of the abortion pill mifepristone (RU-486). Women aged between 25 and 34 have ...
THE acquittal of a Cairns couple last week on abortion-related charges has effectively decriminalised the use of mifepristone (RU-486) in Queensland, two leading gynaecologists have claimed. Last week a Cairns District Court jury took less than an hour to find Tegan Simone Leach, 21, and Sergie Brennan, 22, not guilty of procuring an abortion and supplying drugs to procure an abortion. Cairns-based gynaecologists Dr Caroline de Costa and Dr Michael Carrette said that, according to legal advice they received, the acquittal of the pair had also served to strengthen the limited defence in the Queensland code ...
A YOUNG Cairns couple charged with illegally procuring an abortion have been found not guilty. A Cairns District Court jury took less than an hour to find Tegan Simone Leach, 21, and Sergie Brennan, 22, not guilty of procuring an abortion and supplying drugs to procure an abortion. The couple were charged in February last year after police found empty blister packs of mifepristone (RU-486) and misoprostol, which were illegally imported from the Ukraine, during a search of their home on an unrelated matter. The couple admitted that Ms Leach had taken the drugs because they ...
INCREASING numbers of women are choosing to medically terminate their pregnancies, with more than 2600 using mifepristone in 2009. According to the TGA figures, only 227 women underwent medical abortion in 2008, but now some 81 doctors around Australia are authorised to prescribe mifepristone. The growing preference for medical abortion with mifepristone (plus misoprostol) has been revealed as a new survey confirms broad support by GPs for women’s right to abortion. The survey of 517 GPs, conducted for abortion provider Marie Stopes International Australia, found 87% felt termination services should be available to all women. ...
An investigation into an anaesthetist suspected of deliberately infecting his patients with hepatitis C at a late-term abortion clinic in Victoria has uncovered another 14 patients with the disease. Dr James Latham Peters was suspected of purposely infecting his patients with hepatitis C earlier this year after 12 women tested positive to the disease following procedures at the clinic. Victoria’s Department of Human Services (DHS) announced on Monday that 58 women had tested positive to hepatitis C, 35 of whom have been genetically linked to the anaesthetist’s strain of disease. Another 400 women have been contacted ...
A GP and sedation doctor has been reprimanded by the NSW Medical Tribunal for providing a false statement to the Medical Board in relation to an illegal abortion preformed by deregistered doctor Suman Sood. In 2002, Dr Richard Allen, who worked with Ms Sood at the Australian Women’s Health Clinic in Fairfield, signed a statement for Ms Sood to use at a Medical Board inquiry into the abortion. In 2006 Ms Sood was found guilty of unlawfully administering a drug to procure a miscarriage. Ms Sood denied she had administered the drug and had offered to refer ...
BRITAIN'S first-ever television ads mentioning abortion go to air next month, provoking condemnation from anti-abortion groups, AAP reports. Marie Stopes International, which runs abortion clinics across Britain, announced the campaign will run on Channel 4 until the end of June. The ads will provide information on unplanned pregnancy and abortion and ask viewers “Are you late?”, referring to women who have missed their period. The ads will direct viewers to Marie Stopes International’s 24-hour telephone helpline, which received 350,000 calls last year. Anti-abortion groups have sharply criticised the campaign. Michaela Aston, a spokeswoman for ...
• HEP B OUTBREAK LINKED TO TRADE IN MEDICAL WASTE A BOOMING black market trade in used medical equipment has triggered a deadly outbreak of hepatitis B in India. An investigation launched after an outbreak in Gujarat last month resulted in more than 60 deaths has found a vast extent of corruption and ignorance in the Indian health system. One of the sources of the Gujarat scandal was a father and son doctor duo, charged with culpable homicide after reusing syringes on patients. Investigators have now uncovered a network illegally trading recycled medical waste, including ...
FRESH calls for the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW have been backed by academics who say abortion should be treated as a health issue and not a legal matter. Under existing NSW legislation, abortion is covered in the Crimes Act, attracting penalties of up to 10 years’ jail. NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has requested the government remove abortion from criminal law, saying she would introduce a private member’s bill if action was not taken. Melbourne-based Dr Lachlan de Crespigny, associate professor with the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, said unclear ...
VICTORIA’S proposed abortion laws are in breach of doctors’ religious rights, according to the Catholic Doctors Association of Victoria (CDAV). The proposed laws, which recently passed unamended through the state’s Lower House, seek to decriminalise the practice and allow abortion on demand for women up to 24 weeks’ gestation. They also include a provision that obliges doctors with a conscientious objection to the practice to refer patients requesting an abortion to another practitioner without such objections. The requirement is a step further than the AMA Code of Ethics, which only requires doctors to inform patients of a ...
VICTORIAN pro-life medical students are reconsidering their careers after the state Parliament passed Australia’s most liberal abortion laws. In a vote that surprised both sides of the debate, the Abortion Law Reform Bill was passed unamended, effectively removing the practice from the state’s criminal code. The ACT is the only other state or territory where abortion has been completely removed from criminal legislation. In Victoria women will now have access to abortion on demand up until 24 weeks’ gestation, and it will be mandatory for doctors with a conscientious objection to abortion to refer ...
VICTORIA’S controversial new Abortion Law Reform Bill is now one step closer to becoming law, after the state’s Parliament passed it 23 votes to 17. As MO went to press, members of the Legislative Council were debating a series of amendments. If they are rejected, the Bill will be passed in its current form. If they are adopted, the legislation will return to the Lower House for further debate. If successful in its current form, the Bill will grant terminations on demand for women up to 24 weeks’ gestation. It will also make it mandatory ...
VICTORIAN MPs have been granted a conscience vote on new legislation which seeks to legalise abortion up to 24 weeks’ gestation. The Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008 was tabled last week in the state’s Legislative Assembly by women’s affairs minister Maxine Morand. If successful, the Bill will also permit terminations after 24 weeks, provided two medical practitioners believe it appropriate. It’s currently unlawful for Victorian doctors to perform abortions if the pregnancy doesn’t pose a risk to the woman’s health. The Bill has been welcomed by Dr Louise Keogh (PhD), senior researcher in women’s health at ...