Service Principles

  1. The role of the Pregnancy Advisory Centre is to provide women who have unplanned pregnancy with a safe, high quality, publicly funded, accessible service covering information provision, counselling and decision-making, abortion, and contraception.
  2. It is a woman’s right to decide when and how she will control her own fertility. Fertility control is crucial to the health status of women.
  3. Given Australian attitudes towards sexuality; the social, economic and relationship factors influencing fertility control behaviour; and, the limitations of current contraceptive methods, it is imperative that abortion services be accessible to all women.
  4. Societal attitudes toward abortion tend to negatively influence women’s experience of abortion. The Centre aims to counter this by affirming women’s rights and making the experience a personally strengthening one by:
    • using a compassionate, non-judgmental approach with language which is respectful of women;
    • providing full information (translated and interpreted as needed) about all aspects of the service;
    • giving attention to both the emotional and physical needs of women; and
    • facilitating women’s right to make informed choices in their lives.
  5. Partners and other people important to the women using the Centre will be made welcome and treated with respect.
  6. The Centre will work closely with other health service providers to ensure the coordination, accessibility and continuing improvement of services.