Oppression Of Women In Australia Essay

The oppression of women by the Australian government is still highly prominent in today’s laws especially in relation to the Queensland abortion legislation. The current legislation deems women as incapable to make their own decisions regarding their own bodies and takes on a simplistic approach to a much more complex issue. This following essay will evaluate the abortion legislation in Queensland’s and will highlight the inadequacies of the current law through investigating the legislation and identifying the current issues. It will then go onto evaluate competing lenses such as a deontological and consequential perspectives, and will furthermore conclude that the current laws are inefficient and serve no purpose other than to harm and oppress women.

The Current Legislation

Throughout history laws regulating or
Even though abortions are illegal it doesn’t stop women conducting their own, with 68,000 women a year dying through unsafe abortions or suffering from long term health complications such infections and genital trauma, all of which are consequence of the current legislation. Reasons why women choose to abort this way is due to that they don’t have access to the facilities that insure safe procedures therefore are left with a no choice but to put themselves at a risk. Another consequence of the current legislation is that women are not held equally within the law, as it restricts women of the rights over their bodies, yet there are no current laws that exhibit these same unjust controls over men. This failure by the government to recognise this, has caused “gender-specific harm”, as it confines women to either two groups when antenatal, that being either pregnant or deviant. Therefore, not only causing mental and physical consequences, for women but social