Sunday, 17 January 2021, 2:00 pm
A nationwide poll
has found majority support for the government to continue to
closely monitor abortions in New Zealand and the reasons for
it, despite the Ministry of Health recently suggesting that
there is not a use for collecting much of this
information.
In the poll
of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed last month by Curia Market
Research, respondents were asked “Should the Government
continue to require data to be kept on the number of
abortions and reasons for it, such as mental and physical
health, rape etc and to monitor incidents of coercion,
sex-selection, and whether there has been counselling