Election 2023: How Parties Score on Issues of Reproductive Justice
On 14 October 2023, Aotearoa New Zealand will go to the polls to vote on who they want to represent them in Parliament. ALRANZ has been consistent that reproductive rights are on the ballot this election. From implementing safe areas, to funding...
How the National Party’s 2023 List Stacks Up On Abortion Rights
The National Party released its list for the 2023 election this weekend. ALRANZ has looked at how these candidates voted on law reform in 2020, safe areas in 2021, and their public comments on abortion to determine whether they support abortion...
Luxon “won’t change” Aotearoa’s abortion laws, but he likely won’t enforce them either
How a new government could effectively reverse safe areas and stall progress for abortion care in our health system without touching abortion law reform
A Basic Lack of Trust
by Terry Bellamak Last week Newshub asked Christopher Luxon whether contraception would be fully funded if National gets elected and rolls back Labour’s elimination of the $5 fee for prescriptions. Caught off guard, his answer revealed just how...
Terry Bellamak’s Remarks at Wellington’s Anti-TERF Rally
Kia Ora koutou. Ahiahi marie. Thanks for coming out today and standing up from trans rights. I’m Terry Bellamak, life member and former president of ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa. And I’m here to tell you ALRANZ supports our trans whanau. LGBT...
Attitudes to women who have more than one abortion need to change
Carrie Purcell, University of Glasgow One in three women in the UK will have an abortion in her lifetime. But despite being a common medical procedure, abortion – which was partially legalised 50 years ago this month – continues to be stigmatised...
This is Not America
by Craig Young The New Zealand anti-abortion movement seems to believe that we're the fifty-first US state rather than a sovereign country. Otherwise, why would they wholly parrot every cue and soundbyte from their US counterparts? Now, some might...
Losing Our Religion
by Craig Young The Aotearoa/New Zealand anti-abortion movement still doesn't get it. In the United States, there's at least some semblance of ersatz pluralism, despite the fact that their movement is overwhelmingly dominated by conservative...
Burning Down the House
by Terry Bellamak Back in May, when the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson was leaked by persons unknown, the world thought such treachery was unprecedented in US history. It turns out we were wrong. The Rev Bob Schenck, a former...
Telemedicine abortion service to expand access to care
Whomever you are and wherever you live in Aotearoa New Zealand, you have the right to end a pregnancy if you want or need to. One way to do so is through early medical abortion, which uses pills and allows for self-managed abortion at home. This...