00:02Political games or reproductive rights.
00:05Women will no longer have to worry about the cost of accessing abortion.
00:10No matter the result of the election, as it turns out,
00:13Labor kick-started debate, promising to pay the cost of abortions up to 16 weeks gestation.
00:19It can be up to $1,000 for a surgical abortion.
00:24Saying reproductive rights are on the ballot and at risk, which didn't go down so well.
00:29I think that Ben Carroll should be ashamed of himself.
00:33To stand up and to play political football with women's reproductive rights is disgusting.
00:39It is political and Jess Wilson's right to call it political because it is.
00:42We decriminalised abortion.
00:44But ultimately Jess Wilson backed it all in.
00:47Jess Wilson can say what she likes, but she might not be calling the shots about this.
00:54While One Nation state leader Warren Pickering reportedly doesn't support free abortions,
00:58he confirmed in a statement to the ABC he has no intention of criminalising them.
01:03But abortions are still hard to access if you live rurally.
01:07There are examples of women needing to travel hundreds of kilometres,
01:11but it's not just for one appointment.
01:13They have to take time off work, they have to pay for accommodation,
01:16and they have to pay their travel expenses.
01:18Labor committed to stumping up for these costs too.
01:21And then so did the Liberals.
01:23At the end of the day, abortion care is health care.
01:27Except that public hospitals still won't be required to provide them.
01:31Labor wanted to bait conservative Liberals and make the electorate question
01:35whether One Nation can be trusted on women's health.
01:38But this isn't just a naked political ploy.
01:41Women in the Labor caucus had been pushing this for years,
01:44and it does have real-world implications.
01:46And it does have real-world implications.
01:48邊 mph patients
01:49In person
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