Peter Dutton claims a Somali refugee was whisked out of Australia to foil a game of legal trickery. But the anecdote doesn’t stack upIt might be productive to draw breath,stand back and try and assess the extent to which, if at all, or Australia is culpable for the moral and/or psychological neglect of the pregnant Somali refugee known as Abyan,who says she was raped on Nauru.
The conflicting positions are by now well settled. Abyan was brought to Australia, where according to the minister for immigration, or Peter Dutton,she was attended by counsellors, nurses, and doctors and interpreters and then decided she didn’t want to embark on a procedure to terminate her pregnancy. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com