{"id":156,"date":"2022-05-17T11:43:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/?p=156"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:13:02","slug":"south-australia-decriminalised-abortion-more-than-a-year-ago-but-nothing-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/2022\/05\/17\/south-australia-decriminalised-abortion-more-than-a-year-ago-but-nothing-has-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australia decriminalised abortion more than a year ago, but nothing has changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the future of abortion access in\u00a0<a class=\"u0kBv _3CtDL _1_pW8 _3Fvo9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-05-03\/roe-v-wade-us-supreme-court-leak-explained\/101033320\" data-component=\"ContentLink\">the United States makes international headlines<\/a>, South Australia is behind the rest of Australia in implementing its new abortion laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1HzXw\">It&#8217;s been 15 months since South Australia\u00a0joined the rest of the country to\u00a0<a class=\"u0kBv _3CtDL _1_pW8 _3Fvo9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-02-19\/abortion-law-reform-passes-lower-house-in-sa-parliament\/13169600\" data-component=\"ContentLink\">pass laws to decriminalise abortion. <\/a>However, there&#8217;s still no word on when those laws will take effect, with\u00a0<a class=\"u0kBv _3CtDL _1_pW8 _3Fvo9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-03-04\/sa-abortion-access-delays-year-after-reforms-pass\/100883906\" data-component=\"ContentLink\">regulations still being considered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"_1HzXw\">SWIRLS Member and Flinders University associate professor and abortion advocate Catherine Kevin said the unexplained delays have caused unnecessary suffering for women in an article for ABC News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-05-10\/abortion-decriminalised-but-laws-not-enacted-in-sa\/101051766?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&amp;utm_content=mail&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_source=abc_news_web\">Read the article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the future of abortion access in\u00a0the United States makes international headlines, South Australia is behind the rest of Australia in implementing its new abortion laws. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2087,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}