Abortion

1987, Thorndon: Catherine Robertson, a few months before the abortion (Photo: Supplied)

Thank you for the abortion, Dr Sparrow

The story of an abortion – and the woman who performed it.

By Catherine Robertson | 9th January, 2023

Image design: Archi Banal.

With doorstep pill delivery, having an abortion is about to get a whole lot easier

Abortion delivery services are coming soon, and bringing with them a few fresh problems.

By Sylvia Giles | 3rd October, 2022

Image: Tina Tiller

There is no abortion in South Auckland

South Auckland remains a difficult place to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, though a proposed new clinic may be on the horizon.

By Sylvia Giles | 18th August, 2022

Image: Archi Banal

How far would you have to travel for an abortion?

The 2020 law change should have made abortion services easily accessible to all who needed them. But that's not what happened.

By Emma Vitz | 4th July, 2022

Contributing writer

Image: Archi Banal

How an abortion saved my life

Abortion is not just about the life of a fetus, writes one woman who got an abortion to save to protect her own life.

By Anonymous | 2nd July, 2022

The 2020 Abortion Legislation Act passed its third reading in parliament by a margin of 68 to 51. (Image: Archi Banal)

How would MPs vote on abortion reform today?

We asked everyone who voted at the time, and everyone in parliament now.

By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 1st July, 2022

Contributing writer

Image: Tina Tiller

Miscarriage is devastating. The US Supreme Court just made it even harder

The overturning of Roe v Wade has potential flow-on effects for how those experiencing pregnancy complications – including miscarriage – are treated.

By Joanna Bennett | 30th June, 2022

Main photo: An abortion rights demonstration on Manners St, Wellington, June 23, 1976. Inset: Abortion rights protesters denounce the US Supreme Court’s decision to end federal abortion rights, June 26, 2022. (Photos: Evening Post, Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images).

Dame Margaret Sparrow on what the US abortion decision means for NZ

I remember the day in 1973 when Roe v Wade gave all US women the right to an abortion. How envious we in New Zealand were.

By Margaret Sparrow | 28th June, 2022

Image: Getty (additional design by Tina Tiller)

How to channel your Roe v Wade rage from Aotearoa

Feeling hopeless, shocked, scared? Channel it.

By The Spinoff | 27th June, 2022

Pro-life activist Lynn Jackson, with the group Bound for Life, protests in front of the U.S. Supreme Court November 30, 2005 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

For US abortion opponents, this is just the beginning

Why Roe v. Wade was overturned, who will be affected, and what's coming next.

By Prudence Flowers | 25th June, 2022

An abortion rights protester at the US Supreme Court, May 4 2022 (Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

What’s happening to US abortion rights?

The leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v Wade has shaken America to its core. Here's how it happened, and what it could mean.

By Terry Bellamak | 5th May, 2022

1987, Thorndon: Catherine Robertson, a few months before the abortion (Photo: Supplied)

Thank you for the abortion, Dr Sparrow

The story of my abortion – and the woman who performed it.

By Catherine Robertson | 3rd May, 2022

Image: Tina Tiller

I was the ‘abortion girl’ on a viral far-right video

After the Women’s March in London, a New Zealand woman watched in horror as a video of her went viral.

By Guest Writer | 24th November, 2021

1974: women campaign on the steps of Parliament for the right to legal abortions. NZ’s first abortion clinic opened this same year (Photo: Evening Post via the Alexander Turnbull Library)

Loop Tracks: a novel about choice, consequence and male control

Ahead of their appearance together at Verb, Catherine Robertson reviews Sue Orr's new novel.

By Catherine Robertson | 19th October, 2021

Image: Getty (additional design by Tina Tiller)

This court ruling shows just how far our abortion laws have come

Last week the High Court upheld law limiting the ability of 'conscientious objectors' to stop people getting an abortion. Just 10 years ago it was a very different story.

By Terry Bellamak | 1st October, 2021

Photo: ARTUR WIDAK/AFP/Getty Images

Why we need safe areas outside abortion clinics

‘Protesting’ abortions isn’t about saving pregnant people. It’s about using violence to tell them they’re wrong.

By Terry Bellamak | 8th March, 2021

A protest sign during the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. (Photo: Getty Images)

Three similarities in the fight for assisted dying and abortion rights

ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa president Terry Bellamak on the things she's noticed the two movements share.

By Terry Bellamak | 9th October, 2020

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Labour MP Aupito Su’a William Sio and Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy during a swearing-in ceremony in 2017 (Photo: Hagen Hopkins/Getty)

Abortion became legal in March – but it still divides Labour in South Auckland

One of Labour's most devout MPs has become passionately pro-choice, while another key candidate remains implacably opposed.

By Justin Latif | 7th August, 2020

Amy Adams speaking in parliament (Photo: Parliament TV)

‘I trust women. I trust women’: National MP Amy Adams speaks on abortion

Last night Amy Adams addressed parliament during the third reading of the Abortion Legislation Bill, which would go on to pass 68-51. Here are the highlights from her speech.

By Amy Adams | 19th March, 2020

Image: Getty Images

The Bulletin: Coronavirus suspected in Samoa

Suspected case of Covid-19 in Samoa, MFAT urges NZers overseas to come home, and aviation support package to be announced today.

By Alex Braae | 19th March, 2020