Women around Australia have been shocked and dismayed at the Rudd Government’s continued refusal to recognise their new maternity ‘reforms’ will remove Australian women’s fundamental human right to choose where and how she gives birth.
At the Eureka Stockade in 1854 individuals had to fight to defend their democratic rights & civil liberties and 150 years later women are having to do it all over again Kevin Rudd. Why??
We are calling for a National Day of Action to support our sisters in Ballarat and to remind our elected Government that they are there to serve the interests of the Australian people, not the financial and political interests of lobby groups like the Australian Medical Association.
On February 18, concerned citizens around the country will gather together outside their local Member for Parliament’s office to let them know, women’s rights matter and we are not going to give up and go away.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says that health reform stops with him. Proposed maternity reform promised to enable Australian women to have access to Medicare funding for midwifery care, enabling greater choice. In fact what Rudd has done is remove a woman’s fundamental right to self deterlination, After intense lobbying from the Australian Medical Association, Health Minister Nicola Roxon has given the green light to Doctors having the final say in the choices women make during pregnancy and birth. Women choosing a midwife at hospital or at home will have their basic rights to informed consent and refusal removed, replaced with medical veto.
These laws will affect the birth choices available to ALL Australian women now and in the future. Our daughters will live and birth by the choices our Government makes today.
Tasmania (Hobart)
Outside office of Carol Brown
Where: AMP Building, Ground Floor 27 Elizabeth Street Hobart Tas 7001
When: Thursday, February 18 from 10:30 am to 11:30 am
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