{"id":3104,"date":"2014-10-13T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2014-10-13T11:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T11:54:55","slug":"new-zealand-call-for-a-change-in-abortion-law-5620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/new-zealand-call-for-a-change-in-abortion-law-5620\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Calls for a Change in Abortion Law-1341"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand National Council of Women (NZNCW) is calling for a change in the law regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/healthguide\/abortion\/index.html\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"abortion\">abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation is asking to simplify and clarify the legal situation to ensure women have the right to choose whether or not to have a termination.<\/p>\n<p>The National Council for Women is a not-for-profit organisation that lobbies on behalf of women and women\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n<p>Like elsewhere in the West, the debate about abortion is still rife in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, this debate was more or less settled with the 1969 Abortion Act, originally put forward by the then Liberal MP, David Steel.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, more than 40 years on, in other countries the abortion debate is still raging; most particularly in the USA where the issue often becomes violent.<\/p>\n<p>However, such violent protests appear to be reaching the shores of the Antipodes, where in Melbourne, Australia recently there where clashes between pro-life and pro-abortion campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>While in the USA it is the pro-life groups who are often accused of violent behaviour, according to reports by Canadian press, the latter accused the pro-abortion campaigners as &#8216;acting like thugs&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration by the pro-life groups was a remembrance march over the passing of the Abortion Law passed by the State of Victoria. This law removed all legal protections for fetuses until the moment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/healthguide\/pregnancyindex.htm\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"63\" title=\"pregnancy\">birth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To pro-lifers, this is tantamount to state sanctioned killing. However, from the point of view of pro-abortion campaigners, the Victoria Abortion Law Reform Act enshrined women\u2019s right to choose.<\/p>\n<p>As for New Zealand, it isn&#8217;t known whether the Australian law, which was passed in 2008, has influenced the NZ National Council for Women\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand National Council of Women (NZNCW) is calling for a change in the law regarding abortion. The organisation is asking to simplify and clarify the legal situation to ensure women have the right to choose whether or not to have a termination. The National Council for Women is a not-for-profit organisation that lobbies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2032,1134,2031,2033],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-1969-abortion-act","tag-new-zealand-abortion-regulations","tag-new-zealand-national-council-of-women","tag-victoria-abortion-law-reform-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}