REVIEW: Old abortion law still holds sway

Sue Kedgley

doi:10.24135/pjr.v19i2.228

Sue Kedgley

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v19i2.228

Keywords: Abortion, Health journalism, Health reporting, Investigative journalism, Politics, Public health, Reviews

Abstract

Review of: Fighting to choose: The abortion rights struggle in New Zealand, by Alison McCulloch, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2013, 329 pp. ISBN 9780864738868.

Fighting to Choose is a fascinating, meticulously researched history of the struggle to liberalise New Zealand’s abortion laws. It examines why there is still no right to have an abortion in a progressive country like New Zealand, which has a strong record of promoting women’s rights, and why it is that an unsatisfactory abortion law, that was passed 35 years ago, is still on the statute books.

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