More Sex Education and Contraceptive Subsidies, Fewer Abortions

"New Zealand needs three things if we really want to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions in New Zealand. We need comprehensive sexuality education in our schools, we need a detailed sexual and reproductive health strategy that includes the right to over-the-counter emergency contraception." Mr Craig Young, Research Officer of ALRANZ said today when his organisation responded to the latest increase in abortion statistics.

"Finally, we need to integrate abortion services into the wider area of reproductive and sexual health. We need to abolish the expensive certifying consultant system, close down the Abortion Supervisory Committee and concentrate on the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and abortion instead. We need to stop pretending that an outdated seventies abortion law reflects current political and health realities. It doesn't - it only makes them worse."

Contact Dr.Margaret Sparrow National President ALRANZ Box 28008, Wellington (04) 4759886

Craig Young Narional Research Officer,ALRANZ Box 28008, Wellington (06) 3569099 ext 7750

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>