http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/margo-zlotkowski/ Margo has been with The Cairns Post since the early 1990s, variously covering local council, environment, indigenous affairs and health rounds, including campaigning for a better hospital for the fast-growing region last year amid a time of chronic bed-block, ambulance ramping and blown-out waiting lists. As a senior journalist with the Cairns Post is a senior journalist at The Cairns Post, currently covering the courts round. Margo broke the story of the almost unheard-of charges being faced by subsequently-dubbed Cairns ““abortion couple`` Tegan Leach and Sergie Brennan after they made their first appearance in the Cairns Magistrates` Court in April, and has closely followed developments since. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-story-that-has-put-aboriton-back-in-the-dock/ Tegan Leach has become the unwitting “it” girl for abortion reform in Queensland. Unwitting, because who would have knowingly decided to sign up for the sort of exposure that has been thrust on this Cairns teenager, all because she made a choice thousands of women have made before her to abort a baby she knew she was not ready to care for. However, the charge she faces is that she allegedly did not do it through the proper channels. Tegan is expected to sell her story exclusively to a women’s magazine when the dust has finally settled on this case and she is legally able to speak freely outside of court, for hers is a case that has opened a hornet’s nest of debate about the rights or wrongs of do-it-yourself drug-induced abortions in Australia and women’s ability to access them. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Margo Zlotkowski) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-story-that-has-put-aboriton-back-in-the-dock/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-story-that-has-put-aboriton-back-in-the-dock/#item1320 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:55:48 +0000 Margo Zlotkowski | Author bios | The Punch