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Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume Number 39, Issue 6. April 5 [1976]

Summary: Our Submissions

Summary: Our Submissions

1.

All laws restricting women's right to abortion must be repealed. (Crimes Act ss 182-187; Hospital Amendment Act 1975).

No woman wanting an abortion should be refused. This may require the setting up of special clinics and training programmes for providing the qualified staff for them. Such clinics should be part of the free medical service.

2.

All laws restricting access to contraceptives and advice on contraception must be repealed.

Contraception must be readily obtainable and free on social security. Public educational campaigns to combat ignorance of effective contraception techniques should be launched by the government. These should be of an informative nature only and must not be directed against any particular social group because of its economic status or racial origin. Special efforts must be made to improve birth control methods, including abortion and temporary sterilisation, so that there are entirely satisfactory methods for all women at all times.

3.

All legal or other impediments on the right of a person, married or single, to voluntary sterilisation at their own request must be removed. Forced sterilisation, or attempts to impose sterilisation as a precondition for abortion must be outlawed.

4.

Sex education must be widely extended throughout the state education system and must include education on the means of preventing conception. Sex education must be on a factual basis and attempts to impose a particular moral view must not be allowed.