Are the deaths of 300 innocent humans worth celebrating? This couple thinks so.

An Australian comedian's photo, shared on December 30, had many people so shocked that they questioned whether it was real; it shows the comedian and her abortionist wife clinking their glasses to celebrate the latter's 300 abortions committed in 2025.

Key Takeaways:

• Comedian Geraldine Hickey took to social media to boast that her wife, abortionist Catherine Bateman, committed 300 abortions in 2025 in the course of her job as a sexual health nurse.

• Abortion is the intentional ending of a life — deliberately causing the death of a child in utero — and to celebrate abortion makes a mockery of the women who have been pressured into abortion, struggled with an abortion decision, or live with abortion regret every day.

• Bateman gives women the abortion pill and boasts that she failed to administer ultrasounds to one-third of her abortion pill patients before she prescribed the drugs to them. She considers an ultrasound to be a barrier to care, even though 66% of her patients who had an ultrasound received the abortion pill on the same day.

• A recent analysis found that nearly 11% of women who take the abortion pill mifepristone experience severe adverse events such as sepsis, hemorrhaging, and other life-threatening complications.

The Details:

In a post shared across social media outlets, Australian comedian Geraldine Hickey wrote, "Took my wife out for a fancy dinner to celebrate her doing 300 abortions for the year!" The post included a photo of the two clinking their wine glasses and smiling.

Hickey's wife is Catherine Bateman, a sexual health nurse who advocates for nurse-led abortions in Australia. Bateman shared her own celebratory post on LinkedIn, saying, "300!!!!!! I just completed my 300th medical abortion prescription consult for 2025!"

She noted that half of the prescriptions (150) were for women living in the city where she primarily works, while 22% were in the area where her organization has a second location. Ten percent of the prescriptions were for women in other parts of the region, and 13% "were for people who... struggled to find a suitable service in their own area."

The reasons patients gave for traveling for abortion were cost and speed. It would be faster to have an abortion through Bateman's organization because, as "a nurse-led bulk billing service... we don't require unnecessary tests and appointments."

But what she's really proud of is that many of her patients didn't have ultrasounds before taking the abortion drugs.

"Most proudly for me. 1/3rd of patients did not have to have an ultrasound before they received their prescription and 66% who did have a scan had it in my clinic room on the same day as their prescription. Of the 54 patients who had a formal ultrasound by a sonographer, only 4 were sent for that scan by our service, the others were unnecessarily sent for a scan by their regular GP prior to referral to us. This is particularly important because delayed care results in more complications — in fact in our cohort, the fewest complications are recorded among patients who are too early to scan," she wrote.

She encouraged other abortionists to stop using ultrasounds on women before giving them the abortion pill, calling it an "unnecessary risk" and "unnecessary barrier."

But this is extremely problematic.

Without an ultrasound, gestational age can be miscalculated — sometimes significantly so. In addition, ectopic pregnancies (which can be fatal if not caught early) could be missed. When a woman with an ectopic pregnancy who takes the abortion pill begins experiencing pain and bleeding, she may be told that these symptoms are expected when taking the drug, and she could end up in a life-threatening situation as a result.

Why It Matters:

Each abortion represents a woman who has felt she had to make a choice between her own wants or needs and her child's life. This is not cause for celebration.

More than 60% of women who have abortions say they did so because of the pressures they faced from parents or partners, and financial or educational stresses. When a woman chooses abortion, even when she doesn't want one, it leads to worse mental health outcomes. Thanks to the abortion pill and the pressure to take it quickly, women are making an abortion decision under significant stress and a time crunch.

Abortion can cause harm to mental health, but to physical health as well. Just as in the U.S., a "medical" abortion in Australia typically involves two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone is known to carry significant risks, and a recent analysis of large insurance claims, published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), suggested that nearly 11% of women (10.93%) experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious or life-threatening adverse events following a mifepristone abortion. This means one in 10 women likely experience at least one serious complication within 45 days of taking mifepristone. The authors claimed this rate is 22 times higher than the “less than 0.5 percent” serious adverse events rate reported by the FDA on the mifepristone label.

If 10.93% of women deal with a serious adverse event after taking the abortion pill, that could potentially equate to nearly 33 of Bateman's abortion pill patients — an average of more than two women a month who had to visit an ER or urgent care for a serious complication related to the abortion pill they received from Bateman.

The Bottom Line:

Killing 300 human beings is over 200 more than even Australia's most prolific serial killers. To think that's something to celebrate is heartbreaking.