{"id":2075,"date":"2007-05-31T00:10:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2007-05-31T00:10:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:10:50","slug":"finally-a-bit-of-courage-and-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a bit of courage and sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian government aid organisations have, for a decade, been unable to fund groups that give abortion advice &#8211; it was a trade-off for the conservative government to win the vote of a rightwing religious nutter in the Senate. (And yes, there was more than a little American influence there.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, however, a cross-party group of MPs has recommended the policy be dropped.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s repugnant, it&#8217;s an insult to women. I think that is just absolutely an insult,&#8221; a Liberal [conservative in Australia&#8217;s odd political vocab]MP and doctor, Mal Washer, told the ABC.<br \/>\n&#8220;What is even more ridiculous or more repugnant is that we&#8217;re saying in these guidelines that if you go and have an illegal abortion where there is a 13 per cent chance of death on average and you happen to survive, we&#8217;re happy to give you counselling.<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s good for those who didn&#8217;t die but for the 13 per cent, I think counselling dead people is pretty difficult.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course this is only advice, and it is the Howard government&#8230; although hopefully not for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian government aid organisations have, for a decade, been unable to fund groups that give abortion advice &#8211; it was a trade-off for the conservative government to win the vote of a rightwing religious nutter in the Senate. (And yes, there was more than a little American influence there.) Finally, however, a cross-party group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}