ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE
In NSW, abortion was removed from the Crimes Act and regulated as health care in, as it should be, in 2019.
It was a critical first step to ensuring safe and legal abortion is accessible across NSW. But since then, far too little has changed.
People who need an abortion are still facing high costs, stigma, or having to travel to access legal health care.
The Greens achieved landmark reproductive rights reform in 2025 with the passage of the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025, which expanded access to abortion in NSW by enabling nurse practitioners and endorsed midwives to prescribe abortion medication, as well as requiring additional public reporting of information about abortion access.
This was the second Greens bill to ever pass both houses of the NSW Parliament, and received support across the political spectrum. At a time when advocates for women’s rights and reproductive rights have been anxious that our hard-fought rights could be eroded, it’s significant for the NSW Parliament to not only safeguard reproductive rights in NSW, but improve them.
What needs to change?
Next - abortion must be embedded within mainstream public health services. Only 3 of the 220 public hospitals in NSW consistently and openly provide abortion services. The Premier must keep the promise he made in 2024 that these services would be funded.
How you can get involved:
The Greens will keep fighting until abortion is safe, legal, and free, in every corner of NSW
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