Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The weekend's announcement, sadly, did nothing to address the affordability and accessibility of surgical abortions. There are still abortion deserts right across the country, especially in rural and regional areas. Women are travelling hundreds of kilometres and paying thousands to get this time-bound health care. It should be provided in public hospitals. Will the Albanese government return to its 2019 policy that demanded hospitals provide abortions as a condition of receiving Commonwealth funding?