REVIEW: Old abortion law still holds sway
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. I...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pacific Media Centre
2013-10-01
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Series: | Pacific Journalism Review |
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Online Access: | https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/228 |
Summary: | 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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ISSN: | 1023-9499 2324-2035 |