Looks like yesterday's ruling on the dubious legality of most abortions performed in NZ has the pro-aborts up in arms.
Today's Dom Post on page A9 has an article titled "Anger at judge's abortion legality ruling", where both Women's Health Action Trust director Jo Fitzpatrick and Family Planning Chief Executive Jackie Edmond are quoted as being in favour of abortion on demand.
A Stuff article, titled "Decision raises fears over abortion" alludes to the dark old days during the 40's and 50's when "when many women died from illegal abortions", a quote that can be attributed to the Family Planning Chief Executive.
Related Link: Maternal deaths down in Nicaragua once abortion is eliminated
Today's Dom Post on page A9 has an article titled "Anger at judge's abortion legality ruling", where both Women's Health Action Trust director Jo Fitzpatrick and Family Planning Chief Executive Jackie Edmond are quoted as being in favour of abortion on demand.
A Stuff article, titled "Decision raises fears over abortion" alludes to the dark old days during the 40's and 50's when "when many women died from illegal abortions", a quote that can be attributed to the Family Planning Chief Executive.
Family Planning chief executive Jackie Edmond said there was a danger the ruling would make access to abortion more difficult for women. "If you start restricting abortion, we know that that actually leads to other things.And then we have the clincher - abortions must be legal because that way they are "safe":
"We're talking back into the 1940s and '50s, when New Zealand had a significant number of women die every year of illegal abortions. I don't think that's where, as a country, we want to head."
Christchurch GP Pippa MacKay, who performs abortions at Lyndhurst Hospital, said women needed access to safe abortions.What all these "caring" women quote don't mention (because maybe they don't know, or they do know but choose not to say) is that in countries where abortion has been made illegal, the maternal death rate has dropped dramatically (58% down in one year in Nicaragua!). So far from being "safe", legal abortion endangers women's lives to the point where in a country with legal abortion we have a country with a higher than necessary death rate for woman that are mothers.
"For as long as people have been having sex, there have been abortions," she said. "Unplanned pregnancies won't go away because abortion is illegal. That would be putting women's lives at risk."
Related Link: Maternal deaths down in Nicaragua once abortion is eliminated