PHOTO: Rural Health Commissioner Ruth Stewart. Image: Australian Government.
The National Rural Health Commissioner has told a Senate Inquiry women in rural and remote areas are being let down by a lack of pregnancy termination services.
It comes as Rural Health organisations unite in their call for significant changes to be made to increase services to pregnancy termination services in rural and remote areas.
Rural Health Commissioner Ruth Stewart told the Inquiry into the Universal Access to reproductive healthcare almost half of Australia’s women have had an unintended pregnancy during their reproductive period of their life and “this striking statistic is disproportionately represented by women in rural and remote areas…