Recent legislative reforms to abortion law in New South Wales gave rise to vigorous public and media discourse. This post seeks to provide some clarifications across several related but legally and ethically distinct domains in health law.

I was recently asked to answer a few questions about the effects of the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 (NSW), which was recently introduced by Greens Member of Parliament Dr Amanda Cohn, MLC.

Overruling Roe and Casey I’m very disappointed by the result of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The majority holding of the SCOTUS opinion (authored by Justice Alito) is summarised in the headnote as follows: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion […]