Title: News

Surrogate aborts Kiwi couple’s baby

A New Zealand couple has shared a heartbreaking story about a surrogate who aborted their baby without their knowledge.

28 May 2021

Why we must support Queensland senator’s efforts to cut Medicare funding for sex-selective abortions

In son-preference cultures, abortion disproportionately kills girls — subject to violence and discrimination before they are even born.

28 May 2021 · Rachael Wong

Breastfeeding counsellors placed under investigation for using the term 'mother’

Seven Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellors were accused of “harassment and intimidation” over comments made on a Facebook group.

27 May 2021

New Australian research shows link between porn and intimate partner sexual violence

New research from the University of Melbourne and RMIT finds pornography features prominently in women’s accounts of intimate partner sexual violence.

21 May 2021

The “murky world of sperm donation”

“I wanted to scream, to rip the tablecloth off, to smash something.” Sarah Dingle on learning over lunch that she had been donor conceived.

20 May 2021

US Supreme Court to hear landmark Mississippi abortion case

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case concerning Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban under the “Gestational Age Act”.

19 May 2021

Women, child rearing and work

Parents of small children are all too familiar with the competing demands of family, child care and work.

14 May 2021

Traumatic childhood led woman into porn industry

News Corp outlets have published American woman Deanna Lynn’s account of the traumatic childhood that led her into the porn industry, and how she escaped.

10 May 2021

New research and a class action: Effectiveness of IVF add-on treatments under scrutiny in Australia

New research has found that most women undergoing IVF treatment in Australia are paying for costly add-on treatments despite “rather weak” evidence of their effectiveness and safety.

7 May 2021