[Lawtonia]

I'm not sure about this one. I think a change should be made to un-viable foetus. Here in Australia when have just had a major kerfuffle over the so called "Abortion Pill" RU486. Previously the drug had been under the control of the health minister who currently is a Roman Catholic and would not let it become available. Following a private member's bill by a female senator - our parliament has just had a "conscience" vote and have passed control from the Health Minister to our Theraputic Goods Administration. (I think its like the FDA in the US).

This drug will be available in Australia within the year so women will have the choice of having safe non-surgical abortions. I don't think this proposal adequatley covers all methods of abortion and the wording covers other issues which have been raised by other members such as financial, or the foetus being part of the body, etc.

Why cant someone just write a resolution that guarantees women the right to control their own bodies and have abortions. All of the other details such as education, councelling, finance, timing of abortion, method - can be sorted out by individual nations based on their female citizens needs. Women just simply need to have the right to have an abortion.

While we agree with the spirit with which this was written, Lawtonia can not support this proposal in its current form.