My submission to the parliamentary committee
Dr Kamala Emanuel
11 August 2019
As a NSW abortion
provider and an abortion rights advocate, and as a woman who has
undergone abortion in NSW, I support the Reproductive Health Care
Reform Bill.
Even with the best
access to sex education, contraception and emergency contraception
(which NSW doesn't have), there is no pro-active way for people
engaged in potentially reproductive sex but not prepared for
parenthood to guarantee they won't become pregnant. And sometimes,
wanted, planned pregnancies become impossible to continue, whether
for health reasons or any number of personal crises. Like
contraception, miscarriage and childbirth, abortion is a part of
reproductive life; between a fifth and a quarter of women and people
with a uterus
