Maia's purpose in her post is to call out the apparent liars on abortion. Only in her first example, she kinda does a few wiggles here and there to make her point.
You'd think that was still that case, that women who "need" abortions have to fly to Australia to get one. But no, in NZ today, no one who wants an abortion for mental health grounds is denied one. Even though the original intent of the law was to prevent women from gaining an abortion on spurious grounds, as there needed to be a good reason that was better than just not wanting to be pregnant. That may have been seen as a defeat by feminists and an apparent victory by the "misogynists", but the end result is that defeat has been turned into victory through the approval of every abortion.
If I were the law maker involved in NZ abortion law all those years ago, I would have left no loopholes that could have been exploited. No mental health clause so large you could drive a truck through. No direct abortion of the fetus allowed, only treatment that in some cases could indirectly cause an abortion (such as treatment that is given for ectopic pregnancies). Then Maia would have something to complain about.
Related link: People who are lying about abortion law reform ~ The Hand Mirror
...it helps to know the truth.
So liar the first Bernard Moran, president of Voice for Life (that's SPUC that was):
The present law is a compromise to recognise that there is an unborn child, that there is a human person involved in this procedure.
Decriminalisation would basically be saying that the human person, the child, has no value whatsoever; it's like removing an abscess or a tooth. That's a modern form of barbarism.
You see this idea repeated by quite a few different people, but it's absolutely incorrect - our current law is not a compromise. The law we have now was a total victory for misogynist anti-abortionists. The law was written and promoted by misogynist anti-abortionists David Langue and Bill Birch (respectively). None of the women in parliament voting for it. It was a horrific desperate defeat for feminists all over the country. Over 300,000 people signed a petition to repeal the law. For more than a year after the law was passed women who needed abortions flew to Australia to get them..
You'd think that was still that case, that women who "need" abortions have to fly to Australia to get one. But no, in NZ today, no one who wants an abortion for mental health grounds is denied one. Even though the original intent of the law was to prevent women from gaining an abortion on spurious grounds, as there needed to be a good reason that was better than just not wanting to be pregnant. That may have been seen as a defeat by feminists and an apparent victory by the "misogynists", but the end result is that defeat has been turned into victory through the approval of every abortion.
If I were the law maker involved in NZ abortion law all those years ago, I would have left no loopholes that could have been exploited. No mental health clause so large you could drive a truck through. No direct abortion of the fetus allowed, only treatment that in some cases could indirectly cause an abortion (such as treatment that is given for ectopic pregnancies). Then Maia would have something to complain about.
Related link: People who are lying about abortion law reform ~ The Hand Mirror