“Abortion Reversal” is Dangerous
Sep 29, 2022 | 0 Comments
by Terry Bellamak In mid-September Pharmac decided to fully fund progesterone. The change is expected to increase access to hormone replacement therapy for symptoms of menopause. Progesterone has another, more sinister unapproved use, as part of...

Tribute to Peggy Walsh pioneer member of ALRANZ
Jul 15, 2022 | 1 Comment
by Margaret Sparrow Peggy was born and raised in Wellington. She trained as a nurse, went overseas to London and returned to New Zealand to continue nursing and married Tom Walsh. Peggy had two children and also raised a young relation Fran Walsh,...

Roe v Wade: the religious right has long influenced law in the US – here’s how abortion rights could be challenged elsewhere
Jul 10, 2022 | 0 Comments
The threat to Roe has been the outcome of a strategy specific to US culture and legal structures. But this does not mean that other nations should feel secure in their current access to abortion. There are conservative religious organisations, politicians and activists who seek to constrain reproductive rights around the world.

Credibility and Risk
Jun 29, 2022 | 0 Comments
by Terry Bellamak In the days since the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade, Christopher Luxon has been pressed repeatedly on the future of New Zealand’s two year old abortion law reform under a National government. With increasing frustration,...

ALRANZ President Dr Tracy Morison’s Speech on the presentation of Our Open Letter
Jun 20, 2022 | 2 Comments
Dr Morison was not able to be present to deliver her speech in person, so we present it now. Kia ora koutou katoa, Sometimes the unthinkable happens. You say to yourself, “This can’t be. Surely not. This could NEVER happen”. The morning I woke up...

Book Review: The Lie That Binds
Jun 18, 2022 | 0 Comments
by Margaret Sparrow All eyes are now on the US with the prospect that Roe.v. Wade will be overturned by a decision of the Supreme Court, 49 years after it was passed. How and why has this come about? This book is not the latest word on the topic...

Watch What They Do
May 7, 2022 | 0 Comments
by Terry Bellamak This week in the USA, someone leaked a Supreme Court majority decision that reverses Roe v Wade, the decision that establishes a constitutional right to an abortion. Now Americans are incandescent with outrage at the dumpster fire...

The Long Game
Apr 10, 2022 | 0 Comments
by Terry Bellamak To see what the world would look like if anti-abortion types had their way, look no farther than the USA. Like Oklahoma, which just passed a bill making all abortions illegal except to save the life of the mother. The governor is...
Why we need to fight abortion stigma
Apr 4, 2022 | 2 Comments
by Katie Lavers Medical science has improved lives. Vaccinations can prevent disease. They have been in New Zealand since the 1860’s, with smallpox vaccines being first in line. In the 1940’s and 50’s more widespread vaccination programmes began....
A Testing Time Part 3 – Hormone Pregnancy Tests
Mar 27, 2022 | 0 Comments
by Margaret Sparrow From 1942 another type of pregnancy test was developed, not using hCG but two other hormones, oestrogen (or a synthetic oestrogen) and progesterone (or a synthetic progestogen). Either taken orally or injected, various...
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