Barbara Baird

The achievement of marriage equality in Australia in 2017 was hailed by many as the crowning event of a fifty-year story of hard work by activists, which began with campaigns to decriminalise sex between men in the early 1970s. In that same five decades, feminist activism, including campaigns for abortion rights, the reform of family law, and forms of welfare...

A history of the challenges facing medical abortion provision in Australia and the people trying to overcome them. In Abortion Care is Health Care, Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector, Baird describes a system of predominantly private provision, which has imposed barriers to...