Bea, who died in October 2019, aged 80, never saw the results of her fight for abortion rights. It was not until March 2024 that abortion was no longer a criminal offence in all Australian states. WEL and the 1970s women's movement of which abortion rights was part put women's issues firmly on Australia's political agenda, where they have stayed. As we head into another federal election, no candidate can afford to be as blithely ignorant of the issues affecting women as so many candidates were in 1972.

Great article 🙏Kent

“It was not until March 2024 that abortion was no longer a criminal offence in all Australian states”

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