Bla bla bla should a dentist that buggared up my filling go on some public list? get real!

ANYONE who murders children should be appropriately PUNISHED!

Seeking forgiveness from God for this gross crime of which many are involved is the only real way to healing damaged women's bodies and emotions.

Hokay. Two suitably ignorant responses.

Kenny, you compare the experience to a bad trip to the dentist, when perhaps a more accurate analogy would be to describe a doctor that accidentally tore off your penis.

Still think it's trivial?

And mardisbro. Another eloquent appraisal from the pro-life camp. There are plenty of arguments I can level against that, but I'm pretty sure this forum is going to quickly spiral into a pro-choice v pro-life debate, and I'd rather not hasten that.

I don't know Melissa Tankard Reist's background, whether she is pro choice or pro life, but I didn't detect either view coming through, which is a credit to her, considering how passionate we tend to be about this issue.

The topic of the article is that there are abortion providers out there who are not taking proper precautions. If this is true, then it should be of concern to all Australians, not just women.

Because the subject is abortion there will be a line-up on one side of feminists (who drive the abortion debate) and on the other side the right-to-lifers (to whome it is black or white with nothing in between.

Neither side really wants to talk about effective, ethical delivery of abortion services.

I don't think that 'outing' people helps at all, but progressing them through the Courts gets results. Complain to your elected representatives if you think that the regulators are being too 'easy' or that self-regulation is ineffective.

Excellent article.

I think that the abortion industry does need to be scrutinised substantially more than it is currently.

I run a finance brokers firm and I have more regulations and rules than an industry that at performs at the very least a highly contravercial operation that many believe involves the termination of a human life.

I will never forget going to the doctor with my partner, who suspected she may be pregnant, and the first option offered was termination. This was prior to any other medical advice! I was gobsmacked. My partner is a completely healthy woman in her 20's, with a loving supporting partner and we would be over the moon if she was pregnant.

The abortion industry preys on women at a very emotional and delicate time in their lives.

No matter what side of the abortion fence you sit on 100,000 abortions a year with the number 1 reason given as being 'economical factors' in one of the richest nations on earth is a human tragedy in anyones eyes.