YES! Government to finally legalise abortion!
Amazing news finally that the Government are going to legalise abortion!
Exclusive: Government’s abortion reform details revealed
Newshub can reveal exclusive details of the Government’s abortion reforms.
After months of stalling and behind-the-scenes haggling between Labour and New Zealand First, the legislation decriminalising abortion will be introduced on Monday. It’s the first major shakeup to our abortion laws in 40 years.
About God damned time! Under the new legislation, any woman can have an abortion in the first 5 months of pregnancy, and if it’s after 5 months, the woman will need a Drs test. The amount of women who had abortions after 5 months in 2017 was 96 out of 13,285 abortions so less than 100 women would be impacted by the new changes while the vast majority could get their abortion without the current nonsense.
Hard core feminist activists will of course decry that there is still a 5 month gestation limit but to be honest they wouldn’t be happy until they got a personal cuddle from Jacinda after each abortion alongside a signed album of Lizzie Marvelly singing ‘I am Woman’, so let’s not allow the perfect to defeat the good here.
This is a great breakthrough and Andrew Little deserves to be congratulated for moving our Abortion laws out of the medieval period into the modern day. As America goes backwards into a Handmaiden’s Tale dystopia, it is a great relief to see us being so progressive.
Let’s get it passed and change this ridiculous stupid law.
Five months seems quite late in the day to me
Up to 5 months. My wife and I had a child that contracted chicken pox and passed this onto my wife whilst pregnant at 28 weeks. She was born with part of her brain not working, the automatic breathing function, the one thing we do without thinking. She passed away 4 weeks after birth. There is no exact science around days or months but given what we learnt through our own experience and how our child had no chance, 5 months is definitely not late in the day.