The challenge to long-held social norms has been multi-pronged. Movements of the 1960s such as pro-choice, women’s rights feminism began a change in society that has altered our understandings and beliefs. The feminist movement acted with the impossible aim of changing the very nature of woman.
Thus we had the abortion-on-demand movement, which began in Great Britain in 1967, and spread across Europe, to Canada (1969), and to the United States (1973). Australia is slowly marching stat…