Bill
Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Funding for Certain Types of Abortion) Bill 2013
lapsed, as at 2016-04-17.
- Sponsor
- John Madigan
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-03-19
- second reading — 2013-03-19
- second reading — 2013-06-27
- other — 2013-11-12
- other — 2013-11-13
- second reading — 2014-09-25
- other — 2016-04-17
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-03-19.
The bill would stop Medicare covering abortions done because the fetus is a particular sex.
It would end public funding for terminations selected on the basis of gender, with an exception for cases where a gender-specific disorder is diagnosed.
The bill follows the United Nations' call to address gender-biased sex selection, which it says is discriminatory and harmful to girls and women.
- Remove Medicare funding for abortions performed solely for sex selection.
- Allow Medicare funding to continue for terminations related to a gender-specific disorder.
- Align Australian law with international recommendations against gender-biased sex selection.
People seeking Medicare-funded abortions and the medical practitioners who provide them.
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