REVIEW: Old abortion law still holds sway

• Main Author: Sue Kedgley
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pacific Media Centre 2013-10-01
• Series: Pacific Journalism Review
• Subjects: Abortion; Health journalism; Health reporting; Investigative journalism; Politics; Public health
• Online Access: https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/228

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.