Abortion rebuttal
The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child disagrees with the assertion that New Zealand women are travelling to Australia for abortions because nothing is available in their own country. A spokesman for the society (Mrs C.Butchard) said that it ‘’strongly rebuts” the comment made by The Health Alternative for Women group in ‘‘The Press” yesterday in connection with the Australian passport plan. She said that the Abortion Supervisory Committee’s figures for 1980 said that 94 per cent of requests for an abortion in Christchurch were granted. “This is almost an abortion on request situation,” she said. “S.P.U.C. agrees with T.H.A.W. that any process that would give rise to backstreet abortions must be opposed. However, the barbaric attitude of T.H.A.W. advocating the slaughter of unborn
children in Australian abortion clinics, or anywhere else, must also be strongly opposed.” said Mrs Butchard. S.P.U.C. believed that any delay in the travel process would give women time to make a fully informed decision, she said. "Any decision regarding the life or death of a child needs careful consultation, and must not. be made in hours, as happens at present,” she said.
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