Pacific Journalism Review (Oct 2013)

REVIEW: Old abortion law still holds sway

  • Sue Kedgley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v19i2.228
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 2

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Review of: Fighting to choose: The abortion rights struggle in New Zealand, by Alison McCulloch, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2013, 329 pp. ISBN 9780864738868. Fighting to Choose is a fascinating, meticulously researched history of the struggle to liberalise New Zealand’s abortion laws. It examines why there is still no right to have an abortion in a progressive country like New Zealand, which has a strong record of promoting women’s rights, and why it is that an unsatisfactory abortion law, that was passed 35 years ago, is still on the statute books.

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