Category Archives: abortion

A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

January 11, 2012 – 10:25 am

As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering from 6 October – December 23, 2011. The latest readership figures are now also available, showing that [...]

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Pressure for abortion law reform in Queensland

December 9, 2011 – 2:13 pm

Professor Caroline de Costa writes: It is now more than a year since the trial of a young Cairns couple charged with procuring an abortion for the woman. A jury in the Cairns District Court unanimously rejected the charges but the couple spent an agonising eighteen months prior to the trial, the subject of intense [...]

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An invitation and a note of explanation to Croakey readers

July 12, 2011 – 1:02 pm

If you have read the funding arrangements for Croakey, you will understand that editing this blog is, by necessity, very much a part-time activity for me. I am usually writing and editing articles in haste around multiple other commitments. Often I am wanting to alert readers to new reports/research etc that may be of interest, [...]

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Critiquing media health coverage – from abortion to rural health

May 23, 2011 – 7:16 pm

Media Doctor Australia, a pioneering project based at the Newcastle Institute of Public Health which evaluates media reports about health and medical treatments, has joined the Twitterverse. You can follow them at MediaDoctorAU. I hope they are tracking readership numbers closely. It will be interesting to know what impact Twitter has on these, although this [...]

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Achieving excellence in abortion care (not)

October 15, 2010 – 8:09 pm

An international meeting of professionals committed to ensuring women have access to abortions will be held in Spain on October 22 and 23. The title is “achieving excellence in abortion care”. One of the speakers at the FIAPAC conference will be Melbourne-based ethicist Dr Leslie Cannold, who will describe the campaign that led to abortion [...]

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