Bill 'should cut abortions’
Wellington reporter The new Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Bill should lower the incidence of abortions by allowing young people better access to information on contraception, the Minister of Women’s Affairs, Mrs Shields, believes. She rejected suggestions the bill allowed abortion on demand. “It is designed to remove in-
equity in relation to access to existing abortion services,” she said in a statement. “By restricting education about contraception and the provision of contraceptives to young people under 16, young women have not been able to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies. “Consequently, many of these young women have sought and
been granted the right to an abortion,” she said. Lack of contraception had also exposed young people to increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases. The bill removed administrative difficulties which had denied many women access to abortions when they were legally entitled to them, said Mrs Shields.
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