MEDIA RELEASES
Refusal to Provide Contraception Stigmatises Users
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa sadly welcomes the results of Family Planning’s survey of contraception users, which shows 5% experience health practitioners obstructing their access to contraception. “It’s maddening that in 2020 people still have to deal with the...
ALRANZ Deplores National MPs’ Abortion Myths
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa deplores the statements of National MPs Harete Hipango and Simon O’Conner on Facebook, alleging New Zealand’s reformed abortion legislation allows full term babies to be aborted. “What they are saying is wrong on so many levels,” said...
Final Abortion Statistics from Stats NZ
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa welcomes Stats NZ’s final report on abortion statistics, for the year ending December 2019. In future this data will be collected and presented by the Ministry of Health, in keeping with the recognition that abortion care is a health...
Telemedicine Abortion Care Comes to New Zealand
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa congratulates the Ministry of Health for offering telemedicine abortion care for early medical abortions to same patients during the Covid-19 lockdown. “The Ministry of Health has designated abortion care as an essential service, and...
ALRANZ Presents Open Letter to Parliament
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa will deliver an open letter to Parliament to MPs at 1pm today, Thursday 12 March 2020, on Parliament’s forecourt. The letter acknowledges the Abortion Legislation Bill is not perfect, but is still an improvement on the status quo....
ALRANZ Salutes Second Reading Passage of Abortion Bill
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa salutes the New Zealand Parliament’s passing of the Abortion Legislation Bill at second reading, 81 to 39. “We are really pleased the margin was so large,” said ALRANZ National president Terry Bellamak. “The support the bill is...
ALRANZ Co-sponsors National Day of Action
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa is co-sponsoring a National Day of Action – Our Bodies, Our Choices, with Fem Force, Victoria University Feminists Organisation, NCW, and HELP. “Now is the time for people who care about women and pregnant people to come out to the...
ALRANZ Welcomes Select Committee Report
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa welcomes the Abortion Legislation Select Committee’s report, released today. The select committee made a few significant changes to the bill. “A section had been added creating a positive duty on the part of the Minister of Health to...
NHS Report on Women’s Health and NZ Law Reform
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has released a report on the state of women’s health in the UK. The report calls for the NHS to take a strategic approach to prevent disease and promote wellness across people’s lifespans. ALRANZ notes the report recommends...
Abortion Decriminalised in Northern Ireland
ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa congratulates Northern Ireland for decriminalising abortion. “Northern Ireland had some of the most punitive and restrictive abortion laws in Europe. Now, they finally have the same laws as the rest of the United Kingdom,” said Terry...