Abortion rate ‘1 in 7’

Press, 23 June 1981, Page 6

Abortion rate ‘1 in 7’

PA Wellington New Zealand's abortion rate is now one for every seven live births, according to the Societj’ for the Protection of the Unborn Child (S.P.U.C.). The figure is projected from the Abortion Supervisory Committee figures for the first three months of the year. The president of S.P.U.C., Mr P. Barry-Martin said yesterday that the committee's .figures showed that there had been 1751 abortions in January, February, and March. That was a rate of 7004 abortions for the year, or one for every seven live births, said Mr Barry-Martin.

"A- cynical cabal within New* Zealand’s abortion service is manipulating the law to run an abortion conveyor belt,” he said. The admissions of a spokeswoman for the Sisters Overseas Service, Ms Robyn Moore, at the Women’s Electoral Lobby conference in Nelson at the w’eek-end, should be of serious concern to thinking New Zealanders, particularly Parliamentarians and members of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, said Mr Barry-Mar-tin. ' He said that Ms Moore had boasted that women were able to make a mockery of the law, by manipulating the abortion administration to

provide abortion on demand, Mr Barry-Martin sand tha: the abortion “conveyor belt' started in the* doctor's surgery or pro-abortion welfare centre, and took the pregnant women to certifying consultants who inevitably recommended abortions. Then it was on to pro-abortion counsellors, and finally to proabortion surgeons. "It has become a publicly, funded brainwashing process, where a pregnant woman is taken along the conveyor belt and manipulated into the illusion that abortion, is the best solution for her' social and economic problems,” said Mr Barry-Martin. Earlier report, page 11 .