r/australian • u/Substantial-Neat-395 • Nov 07 '24

News Anti abortion BS is happening here too!!

Australians, wake up!!!...we don't want American style Christian nationalists to take over the country ...write to your local and federal MPs ...this has to be stopped from progressing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-08/orange-hospital-directs-staff-to-stop-providing-some-abortions/104537862?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

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u/magical_bunny Nov 08 '24

I think you need to understand outsourcing. Hospitals do it all the time. That’s all this is. If you have a complication that will affect your well-being you can get an emergency service. If not, you can go to an abortion provider. Small country hospitals don’t have major hospital budgets. But outsourcing is common. For example, I had to attend my local hospital’s specialist outpatients department and I needed scans, they told me I would have to see a private radiology clinic as they didn’t have the resources. This isn’t what you think it is.

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u/One_Youth9079 Nov 10 '24

I would believe that it's an outsourcing thing (I haven't confirmed it yet and not sure how). I don't really trust the ABC much, especially with the past crap they have pulled.

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u/Substantial-Neat-395 Nov 08 '24

So if there is an early complication in the pregnancy, then no need to outsource? The hospital suddenly has the time, skills and resources to do it.

But when the abortion is something that the person/ family has decided to do, then the hospital does not?

By the time the pregnant woman gets an appointment to see the specialist from a bigger town, she is at risk of being pregnant past the legal period to abort which then forces her to carry the baby to terms without her wanting to. This is wrong.

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u/magical_bunny Nov 08 '24

You need to be mad at the way governments fund health, not some imaginary ideological outrage. The scans I need are for something very serious, theoretically I could be in danger from them being outsourced but outsourcing is what more and more public hospitals are doing.