PRESS RELEASE
A press release from Family Life International, New Zealand
Contact: Brendan Malone: (03) 351 3225 - Mobile: 021 054 0762
Tuesday 17.06.08
Latest NZ abortion statistics are a grave tragedy for NZ women and their unborn babies
The latest New Zealand abortion statistics issued today by Statistics New Zealand show that in 2007 there were 450 more
induced abortions than in 2006. This represents 450 more legally sanction acts which exposed NZ women to serious
physical and psychological harm, and 450 more innocent Kiwi babies who lost their lives to abortion.
The latest figures show that the abortion rate increased from 17,930 abortions in 2006 to 18,380 abortions last year, an
increase of 2.5 percent in a one year period.
If this current trend continues as it has for the last two years, then next year the number of induced abortions in New
Zealand will be higher than it has ever been before in our history.
The public debate that has occurred during the last week regarding Justice Millar’s High Court ruling about NZ abortions
has simply exposed how very little most New Zealanders know about the true harmful effects of abortion, or about how
seriously unsound much of the arguments used to support it actually are.
It has also exposed that many of the pro-abortion supporters in this country are intolerant and hateful of individuals
and opinions which dissent from their own. One pro-abortion editorial in the Dominion Post last week called pro-lifers
the Teleban, and last week a hateful and obscene pro-abortion video posted on YouTube targeted a prominent NZ pro-life
advocate with imagery which features a gun pointed at his head.
While New Zealand women and their unborn babies continue to pay an unnecessary and horrific price, those who endorse and
carry out abortions continue to ignore the harm that their ideology is doing to Kiwi women and their unborn babies, and
those who support abortion continue to do so blindly, without properly considering the philosophical and moral validity
of their pro-abortion position.
ENDS