TY - JOUR AU - Kedgley, Sue PY - 2013/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - REVIEW: Old abortion law still holds sway JF - Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa JA - PJR VL - 19 IS - 2 SE - Reviews DO - 10.24135/pjr.v19i2.228 UR - https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/228 SP - 234-236 AB - 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. ER -