Dr. Nisha Cott

There is no evidence to suggest that there is a problem in New South Wales or anywhere else in Australia.

The people who are pushing for this change are relying on data that is very old.

There is no evidence that this is something that would be happening.

And there are already...

guardrails again to make sure that that does not happen it's important to remember in these situations that there are certain medical conditions inherited conditions that go with the gender of the fetus and so when we have this blanket thing of not having sex selective abortions

What we're saying to women is that if you are a carrier of a condition that is passed along because of gender or is related to gender, then you will never be able to have an abortion, which is your right to have.

And it is your choice if that is a condition that you don't want to pass on to the fetus, to your next generation.

I think criminalisation of any healthcare procedure is not the way forward at all.

We have seen what happens with criminalisation.

It has taken us many years.

It's only as recent as 2023 when we decriminalised abortion.

It is only in the last few months that the UK has decriminalised abortion.

It is very important that we don't put healthcare into any sort of criminal code because then that just makes practitioners who provide the service feel like they don't want to do it anymore.

Yes, 100%.

If you just listen to the people who are pushing for these things, you can hear them say that their ultimate aim is to criminalise abortion and to make abortion not available for women in Australia.

That is their aim.

And this is just tinkering around the edges to get to that aim.

And we have to stop this right now.

Because we know, we have seen the evidence, we have seen the consequences.

We look at Texas in America.