Achieving Equal Access: Abortion Care in Australia report

This report highlights 5 key barriers to abortion access in Australia at the time, specifically: affordability, lack of clinical services, healthcare workforce barriers, over-regulation of medication, and lack of data. The report also highlights 2 key solutions that could address these problems: immediate federal government action to address affordability, and the creation of an expert-led National Taskforce on abortion care, with a mandate to develop a comprehensive plan to improve abortion access across the public healthcare system.

Keywords: access

Author(s): Australian Women's Health Network, Australian Women's Health Alliance
Organisation: Fair Agenda, Children by Choice, MSI Australia, Monash University
Year Published: 2022
Language: English

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