What's Happening in Queensland: Update

Anti-abortion violence has struck Queensland where the young couple charged with breaching the state’s abortion laws have been firebombed out of their home near Cairns.

The Australian newspaper reports that Sergie Brennan, 21, who faces up to 14 years’ jail for attempting to procure an abortion for his 19-year-old girlfriend, Tegan Simone Leach, has had to move with Leach into a house with security cameras and dogs. For more on the case, visit Margaret Sparrow’s updated account by clicking here or by clicking on “Abortion Around the World” on the left-hand side of this page and opening “What’s Happening in Queensland.”

UPDATE: An opinion piece -- "One step forward, two back, in fight for reproductive rights" by Dr. Leslie Cannold, a medical ethicist and the president of Reproductive Choice Australia and ProChoice Victoria -- from The Age newspaper from Aug. 11, 2009.