Pharmacist Sijka Tscholakoff joins us to discuss the pharmacy role in early medical abortion (EMA) provision. Sijka has worked as a pharmacist for 13 years, and is an advocate for accessible medical abortion access through primary care. She explains how to train to provide MS2Step, and how to set up and manage medical abortion provision through community pharmacists.

For more information and to register as a pharmacy dispenser of medical abortion, visit: https://medcast.com.au/communities/auscapps

Larissa Hudson joins us to provide insight into her role as a Nurse Educator and Sexual and Reproductive Health Nurse at Sexual Health Victoria (formerly Family Planning Victoria). She is passionate about reproductive health rights and has worked in early and late term abortion (both MTOP and STOP) across the UK and Australia. She is hoping that more people will take up the mantle to provide termination of pregnancy in our community and thinks anyone involved in the area already is a health care super star!

https://www.ms2step.com.au/

https://www.spherecre.org/

https://ranzcog.edu.au/news/covid-19-anti-d-and-abortion 

Associate Professor Deborah Bateson, the Medical Director of Family Planning NSW, joins us for an overview of early medical abortion (EMA). We discuss how to safely provide EMA including logistics, side effects, and follow up. The release of this episode coincides with the upcoming eTG guidelines on medical abortion. 

For more resources see:

https://www.fpnsw.org.au/ 

https://www.ms2step.com.au/

https://www.spherecre.org/

Brigid Coombe joins us to discuss abortion access and legality in South Australia. We will be discussing the bill currently put forward to remove abortion from criminal law in South Australia, and the work of the South Australian Abortion Advocacy Coalition (SAAAC). 

For more information please visit: https://saabortionactioncoalition.com/