https://www.childrenbychoice.org.au/
“That is why, at this moment, we have the community showing up and reminding governments that this is an expectation we have – that abortion remains legal and accessible.”
Before she was meeting with politicians, before she was on boards, before she led a major non-profit, Daile Kelleher volunteered as an abortion clinic escort.
“It was not about you,” she remembers. “Your goal was to keep people feeling comfortable and safe.” Daile provided a physical barrier between patients and people harassing them and brought goodie baskets for staff, who were trying to do their jobs within the limits of the law. Her work has since expanded on those early efforts to more broadly represent the interests of patients and their nurses and doctors. She now manages Children by Choice, an all-options counselling service based out of Brisbane.
“I can see the impact of the work we do and the change that it has made,” Daile says. “We are an advocacy group, but we do service delivery – we speak to 1500 people a year – and we can see the impact of our
