http://www.thepunch.com.au/tags/ru-486/ Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +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. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) 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 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 A quick flick through some of the side effects of RU-486 makes for sober reading. These range from stomach cramps, through nausea, vomiting to ectopic pregnancies and severe internal bleeding. Quite clearly, it is a serious drug that should be treated with some caution and strictly only under medical supervision. If RU-486 weren’t an abortion drug there wouldn’t be any controversy. No-one would question the prosecution of two people for procuring and administering another pharmaceutical with side effects as serious as those of RU-486. But it was never about the drug. It was about access to abortion. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ru-486-is-dangerous-just-think-about-it/ A quick flick through some of the side effects of RU-486 makes for sober reading. These range from stomach cramps, through nausea, vomiting to ectopic pregnancies and severe internal bleeding. Quite clearly, it is a serious drug that should be treated with some caution and strictly only under medical supervision. If RU-486 weren’t an abortion drug there wouldn’t be any controversy. No-one would question the prosecution of two people for procuring and administering another pharmaceutical with side effects as serious as those of RU-486. But it was never about the drug. It was about access to abortion. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ru-486-is-dangerous-just-think-about-it/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/ru-486-is-dangerous-just-think-about-it/#item1319 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 A quick flick through some of the side effects of RU-486 makes for sober reading. These range from stomach cramps, through nausea, vomiting to ectopic pregnancies and severe internal bleeding. Quite clearly, it is a serious drug that should be treated with some caution and strictly only under medical supervision. If RU-486 weren’t an abortion drug there wouldn’t be any controversy. No-one would question the prosecution of two people for procuring and administering another pharmaceutical with side effects as serious as those of RU-486. But it was never about the drug. It was about access to abortion.