Letters to the editor August 12 2019

August 12 2019 - 1:00am
LIFE-CHANGING: Health minister Brad Hazzard during a debate over the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill, which may proceed to the upper house as early as this week.
LIFE-CHANGING: Health minister Brad Hazzard during a debate over the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill, which may proceed to the upper house as early as this week.

THE legislation put before the NSW Parliament last week reinvigorated the abortion debate. When a woman has to deal with an unwanted pregnancy there is no "correct" outcome. Back in the day, she had three choices: marry the father if possible, surrender the baby for adoption or seek an illegal abortion, often at the risk to her own life. It is a cruel thing to force a woman to carry a foetus for nine months, make her give birth and then give her baby to strangers. I cannot imagine the pain she suffers. No wonder few women take this option.

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