Making a submission to the select committee on Labour’s abortion Bill is vitally important. Firstly, our unborn sisters and brothers, and their often vulnerable mothers deserve a voice of reason and humanity to speak for them in the political sphere.
Read MoreThe Bill removes the current legal restrictions that only allow late-term abortion (after 20 weeks) to save the woman’s life or prevent serious permanent harm to her physical or mental health. It replaces this with a looser and more arbitrary criterion which simply requires one abortionist to “reasonably believe” the abortion is appropriate after “having regard to” the woman’s physical and mental health, and well-being
Read MoreDear New Zealand MP's, As a health professional who has previously participated in late term abortions I urge you to vote NO to decriminalising abortion. Already in the last 10 years approximately 800 late term abortions have been performed on the grounds of “danger to mental health”.
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