SA Unions condemn Sarah Game and One Nation’s attack on women’s health care rights

SA Unions Secretary Dale Beasley said that an overwhelming majority of the South Australian community does not support the attack on women’s reproductive health care rights launched by Sarah Game and One Nation.

Their extremist bill aiming to turn back the clock on abortion access has rightly been knocked back by the House of Assembly.

According to a recent poll from the Australia Institute, almost 90 per cent of Australians support abortion access. South Australians reject these repeated, malicious attempts to deny women access to essential health care.

Safe, legal abortion access is a human right with overwhelming support across the community.

88 per cent of Labor voters, 87 per cent of Coalition voters, and 84 per cent of One Nation voters support abortion access.

Game and One Nation’s attack on reproductive rights is also opposed by medical professionals, including the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

The proponents of this legislation are on record as wanting to ban all abortion care. This extreme position is supported by only 8 per cent of Australians.

While South Australian women are battling rising cost-of-living pressures, a housing system in crisis, and a changing world of work, out-of-touch politicians who answer to billionaires are busy trying to import Trump-style culture wars.

This repetitive attack on abortion rights in South Australia is copied directly from the playbook of far-right politicians in United States. Its aim is to distract and divide Australian workers with fake facts and pseudo-science.

South Australian workers in their unions will always stand up and fight back when politicians who oppose fair pay and workers’ rights attempt to transplant this ultra-conservative ideology into our state.

​Quotes attributable to Dale Beasley, SA Unions Secretary

“This bill was championed by Sarah Game and One Nation who want to import Trump-style ideologies into our state. These politicians want to wind back our rights and push us towards a dark period in South Australian politics, and the union movement will always stand up and fight back.”

“Abortion care isn’t a political game – it’s a deeply personal health care matter.”

Quotes attributable to Jennie-Marie Gorman, SA Unions President

“One Nation and Sarah Game are using women’s health care rights for political theatre and trying to import culture wars from the United States. We’ve seen what happens overseas when division is allowed to be stoked and inflamed by politicians, and South Australian women won’t stand for it.”

“These restrictions would hit regional and low-income working women the hardest. Politicians should not be able to deny us the essential health care we need. Autonomy over our bodies is non-negotiable.”