Abortion Care is Health Care

Barbara Baird

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
03 October 2023

Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Medicine

A history of the challenges facing medical abortion provision in Australia and the people trying to overcome them.

In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a system of predominantly private provision, which has imposed barriers to access on women already marginalised by poverty, rural and remote residency, lack of Medicare entitlement, racism and other factors. Tracing changes in the private sector, the long struggle to make medical abortion available and the nationwide decriminalisation of abortion since 2002, Baird introduces readers to the large cast of 'champions' and everyday healthcare workers and activists who have persisted in their commitment to make abortion care available when governments and the medical profession have so often failed.

Drawing on oral history interviews conducted nationwide with abortion-providing doctors, nurses, counsellors and managers, women's health workers, academics and community activists, Baird brings a critical feminist analysis to create a sophisticated historical narrative of abortion provision over the last thirty years.

By: Barbara Baird
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 392g
ISBN: 9780522878400
ISBN 10: 0522878407
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barbara Baird lives on Kaurna Yerta. She works in Women's and Gender Studies at Flinders University and researches Australian histories of sexuality and reproduction. Since 2017 she has been the Co-Convenor of the SA Abortion Action Coalition. Author image courtesy Nikki Hartmann Photography