Pro-abortion initiatives

  1. Introduction
  2. The Situation Today
  3. How legal abortion came to New Zealand
  4. Overseas influences
  5. Media Influences
  6. Opponents of abortion get organized
  7. The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child
  8. Early expansion
  9. Capital politics
  10. First clinic licenced
  11. The tide turns
  12. Pro-abortion initiatives
  13. A crucial court decision
  14. The Status of the Unborn Child Bill
  15. Seeking urgency
  16. Counter move
  17. The Vote
  18. SPUC moves on
In 1978, opponents of the new law, mounted the Repeal campaign to get rid of the abortion laws. Theyattracted many well-known names to their cause. Sisters Overseas Service was established to refer pregnant women to Australia for abortions.

In Parliament, amendments were made to the new law, enabling abortion clinics to be established in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, under the control of local Hospital Boards.

By the end of 1979, the abortion figures had returned to the level of 1976, when the Royal Commission found a virtual abortion on request situation existed.