Abortion

Women’s Forum Australia (Women’s Forum) maintains a strong commitment to life-affirming cultural change for women’s wellbeing and freedom. Our vision is for women to be given real choice – no woman should have to choose between her own welfare and that of her unborn child...

Women’s Forum challenges the rhetoric of ‘choice’ promoted by an abortion industry that has a vested interest in promoting abortion as a procedure without repercussion. Abortion and women’s experiences of abortion should not be trivialised and treated as though they are a simple medical procedure…

Women’s Forum believes women should have complete and accurate information and counselling about the abortion decision which includes the physical and psychological risks of abortion.

Read Women’s Forum’s complete Position Statement:

Abortion Position Statement (736 KB)

Quick Facts [1]

• Only 22% of Australians think that are well informed on the topic of abortion.
• 1 in 4 pregnancies not naturally miscarried end in abortion.
• 94% of Australians think a woman should consider all the alternatives before deciding to have an abortion.
• 71% of Australians support greater public discussion about the topic of abortion.
• 76% of Australians believe men have an equal right to public comment.
• 37% of Australians are supportive of abortion on demand. 63% of Australians either oppose or are not strongly supportive of abortion on demand.
• 64% to 73% of Australians think that the abortion rate is too high.
• 87% of Australian’s believe that it would be a good thing of the number of abortions in Australia were reduced.
• 7 out of 10 Australians agree with arguments for legal access to abortion based upon women’s rights and the idea that abortion is ‘a necessary evil’, while 75% agree with the argument that it gives women control over their own lives.

Submissions

Women are not helped when abortion facts are missing (181 KB)

WF Published Articles

Statement made to 9am with David and Kim (718 KB)

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