Labor Has Promised Public Access To Abortion. Here Are The Challenges Doctors See In Making That A Reality
If elected on Saturday Labor has promised to fix Australia’s abortion access issues by increasing the number of medical abortion drug prescribers, expanding public provision of surgical terminations and working closely with states where abortion is still a crime to decriminalise it.
“It is an absolute furphy that because we’ve decriminalised abortion, that we suddenly have public access, it’s like people think ‘we’ve given you permission, what’s your problem?’” Vissenga told BuzzFeed News. Vissenga says one of the challenges for doctors who want to prescribe RU486 is that there is no item number for providing a medical termination of pregnancy.
All pregnancies, whether they are to be continued or terminated, require a visit to a radiologist for a dating scan. Vissenga says while in metropolitan Melbourne patients can go to a bulk billing ultrasound provider, in regional areas access isn’t as easy. “If every GP clinic had at least one person who was willing to provide RU486 then women wouldn’t have this massive issue of ringing around six times to find a place that is far away from where they live to get it,” Farrugia told BuzzFeed News.
“It would be amazing if [the government] could do a telehealth item number, even if it was just for medical termination of pregnancy, because we have people coming two or three or four hours just because we offer bulk billing,” Farrugia said. “Especially when [Catholic hospitals] offer prenatal genetic testing and then these women will be discharged from Catholic hospitals if they decide they want to terminate, which I think is unfair for women to be discharged from one hospital and sent to another,” she said.
Dr Kathy Lewis trained in South Africa, where she witnessed the devastating complications that arose from “backyard abortions” — the procedure was illegal there until 1997. When Lewis sustained a serious injury from a car accident — “I partially amputated my left ankle” — she stopped providing terminations at the Albury clinic, which was subsequently forced to close its doors late last year.
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