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I have a boyfriend (please leave me alone) Yes I am totally mentally distraught about this pregnancy and would get lots worse if I had to ...

A few things it may help to understand, from my personal observations of being very anti-abortion until I was about 16, then increasingly p...

In the recent discussion about abortion (and big ups to the Greens for getting it on the political agenda ), several commentators who identi...

Just before I start in on the momentous news of the Greens’ policy on abortion , a tiny bit of history. As many of you know, our current la...

Content warning:  This is a post about the tactics of an anti-abortion campaign currently underway, the arguments they make, and as such wi...

There's a new campaign by one of my least favourite lobby groups (Family First in case you were wondering), which is encouraging people ...

Anger, oh how often you have visited me lately, let me count some of the ways: The frequently women-hating reaction to Labour daring to...

So Karl du Fresne has joined Right to Life in piling on Sunday Star Times journalist Marika Hill over her article this past Sun...

Forty years ago today, on 22 January 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 7-2 decision, on a case known as Roe v Wade, decla...

Reproduced from the November ALRANZ newsletter with permission from the really rather awesome author, Alison McCullough. The Abortion Supe...

ProChoice People, ALRANZ and the Auckland Women’s Centre bring you a screening of The Coathanger Project A documentary film about ...

Many thanks to Alison McCulloch for permission to cross-post her recent guest post at the ALRANZ blog , and my apologies for tardiness. ...

Feel free to answer for yourself in comments, regardless of your intentions to stand for Parliament :-)  If elected to Parliament at this ...

For my last post for Pro-Choice Postings week I'm going to make you, dear readers, do most of the work. If we want abortion law refor...

When parliament debated the Care of Children Act back in 2004 support was split along party lines. One key issue of difference was whether...

By smkreig, cross-posted from The Comfort As many of you may remember, there was a heated debate earlier in the year about supposed ‘sec...