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Abortion statistics show system is failing women
PRESS RELEASE
A press release from Family Life International, New Zealand
Thursday
14.06.07
Latest abortion statistics show that the
system is seriously failing women
The latest New Zealand abortion statistics, released today by Statistics New Zealand, show that the number of abortions performed in New Zealand in 2006 has increased since the 2005 statistics were released.
“The latest figures show that the system is failing New Zealand woman at an alarming rate” says Family Life International media spokesperson Brendan Malone.
“Each one of these abortions represents serious emotional and physical risks to the lives of the women who have had to undergo them, and each of these abortions has taken the life of an unborn New Zealander.”
The new figures show that New Zealand women aged 20 – 24 continue to have more abortions than any other age group, and they also show that the second largest group of women having abortions are those aged 15 – 19 years of age.
“These women and their unborn babies are the real victims of the seriously flawed sex education policies and philosophies that we continue to promote and encourage in New Zealand” says Brendan Malone.
“Each one of these women has to deal with the hidden grief of abortion, a grief that seems to have become acceptable collateral damage that is ignored by those who oversee and carry out abortions in New Zealand.”
“These figures are a sobering reminder that abortion remains a serious threat to the health and emotional wellbeing of New Zealand women and their unborn babies, and that it is time that the New Zealand government did something for Kiwi women by implementing policies and systems to arrest and reverse the unnecessarily high rate of abortions in New Zealand” says Brendan Malone.
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