’Still too many abortions’
Too many abortions were being performed in public hospitals by some doctors, wth regard to the criteria in the new abortion law, the national president of S.P.U.C. (Mr J. D. Dalgety) said in Dunedin last evening. Mr Dalgety told a public meeting that wltK today's standards in obstetrics, fewer than 100 abortions a year Should be performed in New Zealand under the new abortion law. The act was working badly in the sense that ‘'too many unborn children are losing their lives.” “Now is not the time for amendments which would further exacerbate that already unsatisfactory situation." Mr Dalgety said. S.P.U.C. was prepared to defend the integrity of the legislation as it stood. Referring to the appointments of Mrs Isobel Stanton to a sub-committee on
abortion counselling and Dr T. P. D. Wilcox to an Auckland Hospital Board abortion hospital, Mr Dalgety said a situation now existed where two leading figures in the Auckland Medical Aid Centre had positions of influence in the new system. Or Wilcox bad been reported as saying the hospital he was heading would do up to 50 abortions a day. Mr Dalgety said Dr Wall’s amendment that abortions should only be performed if “the danger cannot be averted by any other means,” was essential if abortion on request was not to start again in Auckland and spread to the rest of New Zealand.
If this happened, the law would have been perverted to a point where, instead of saving babies, it would be misused to kill them, he said.
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