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Queensland to introduce legislation to allow nurses and midwives to prescribe medical abortion
MSI Australia, a leading provider of abortion and contraception services in Queensland and across Australia, today welcomed the introduction of new legislation in Queensland that will allow nurses and midwives to prescribe and dispense medical abortion medication....
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Research shows medical abortion via telehealth is accessible and acceptable in Australia
A new study published in the July issue of BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health shows that at-home medical abortion via telehealth is accessible, convenient, and plays a key role in the accessibility of abortion care across Australia. The joint qualitative study...
Pandemic impacts on nation’s sexual and reproductive health
MEDIA STATEMENT MSI Australia is bracing for a surge in later gestation terminations and increased client complexities including financial hardship and domestic violence as the nation slowly moves towards recovery from COVID-19. The concerns have been highlighted in...
As State recovers from COVID-19, the picketers restart
MEDIA STATEMENT Permits have been granted for anti-choice groups to restart their weekly picketing outside MSI Australia’s Midland clinic from today. The anti-choice groups had their permits cancelled towards the end of March as part of the public health response to...
Overwhelming support for zones shows WA cares
Staff and clients at MSI Australia are one step closer to having their privacy, dignity and safety protected from anti-choice picketers with the WA Government committing to introduce Safe Access Zone legislation this year. Safe Access Zones provide a 150 metre safety...
NSW Abortion Bill
New South Wales is one of the last states to decriminalise abortion. We have seen the positive effects of decriminalising abortion in Queensland last year, with increased access to services in hospitals and more doctors willing to provide vital services without fear...
Correcting Abortion Misinformation
Scaremongering About Abortion Should Not Be A Federal Election Tactic With a Federal election two days away, inflammatory and misleading material has appeared throughout electorates, and online, about abortions in Australia. The majority of Australians, 70.5%...
High Court ruling upholds safe access zones in Victoria and Tasmania
MSI Australia welcomes the High Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of safe access zones in Victoria and Tasmania. Acting CEO of MSI Australia, Jamal Hakim said that “today’s High Court ruling demonstrates that women’s health, safety and privacy is absolutely...
MSI Australia Welcomes National Commitment to Sexual and Reproductive Health
Australia urgently needs a national approach to the provision of sexual and reproductive health services and today, that need is one step closer to being met with the announcement by the Australian Labor Party that it would fund a national strategy if elected to...
Reproductive Coercion: The Hidden Threat
Reproductive Coercion is a hidden form of violence and control that can have life altering consequences. Reproductive coercion is behaviour that deliberately prevents a person from making decisions about their reproductive health. It includes: contraceptive sabotage...