2019 Abortion Statistics

Media Release 15 May 2021

Information released by the Ministry of Health to Right to Life under the Official Information Act reveal that in 2020 there were 5,349 medical abortions, which is an increase of 47.93 % over the 3,617 medical abortions performed in 2019. Surgical abortions fell in 2020 to 7,861 from 9,262 in 2019.

Right to Life deplores the increase in the killing of the unborn with the lethal murder pill Mifepristone, RU 486 and the prostaglandin Misoprostol. Its campaign of chemical warfare is very effective, as Mifepristone cruelly deprives the developing human being of nourishment resulting in the child dying of starvation.

The government is encouraging the early killing of “unwanted children” up to nine weeks gestation and is concerned that some District Health Boards are not providing this health service which should be more available following the Abortion Legislation Act designed and promoted by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.

Medical abortions further victimise women:-

· By trivialising the killing of the unborn.

· Violating informed consent by refusing to give the woman any information on the process of reversing the abortion process with high doses of progesterone after the taking of Mifepristone should she regret her decision and choose life for her child..

· By imposing an incredible psychological burden on women. She has to accept full responsibility for the killing of her child for it is the woman who takes the lethal drug to kill her child.

· It abandons women to take the lethal drugs in her own home without medical support.

· It fails to ensure that the woman is not subject to coercion, violence or threats of desertion.

· It leaves the woman to dispose of the remains of her child.

The Prime Minister is commended for condemning chemical warfare. In September 2018 she stated, “New Zealand condemns any use of chemical weapons, whether it is in Syria or on the streets of the UK. New Zealand believes all states must adhere to obligations under international law, including in respect of chemical weapons.”

Right to Life believes that It is inconsistent for the Prime Minister to denounce this crime against humanity while at the same time giving approval for the use of weapons of mass destruction in chemical warfare in New Zealand in a bloody civil war against our own children.

The government is desperately promoting chemical warfare against women and their precious unborn in the face of increasing opposition from doctors to be involved in surgical abortions that entail the violent dismemberment of the child. Medical abortions do not require a doctor and can now be done by nurse practitioners and midwives

Right to Life asks, “Why is the government victimising women and endangering their health by subjecting them to chemical warfare and requiring them to kill their child in their own home?

” Pregnancy is not a disease and medical abortion is not health care.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Media Release 17th June 2020

Many women in 2019 chose life for their baby in preference to the violence of abortion. Right to Life congratulates these heroic women who deserve the love and support of our community.

Every day it is estimated that thirty-six unborn children are taken to Hospitals and clinics to be violently killed. If this number of children were taken out of our kindergartens each day to be murdered there would be riots in our cities and towns. Statistics NZ report that In 2019 there were 12,857 abortions reported in New Zealand. This is a decrease of 425 abortions on the 13,282 abortions reported in 2018. We should mourn with these women who are grieving the loss of their precious child. There were only 35 abortions authorised on the grounds of “danger to life and/or Physical Health.

Right to Life also grieves with the women who were so often abandoned by the father of the child in the time of the woman’s greatest need and coerced into an abortion that was chosen for her. It is a cruel mockery and charade for society to pretend that it is “a woman’s right to choose.” “Choosing” an abortion is a decision of despair and a cry for help.

The abortion statistics are an indictment on our Parliament which sanctions and funds the killing of the innocent as in the words of our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, “a reproductive choice for women.” Abortion is a core health service with unlimited funding and no waiting list, our women deserve better. The statistics disguise the reality that every child violently dismembered in the womb of the child’s mother is an unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

The statistics are also an indictment on the media which have generally ignored the media release on abortion statistics made by Statistics NZ It was Joseph Stalin who said the killing of one human being is a tragedy and the killing of tens of thousands just a statistic. Since 1977 more than 500,000 children have been violently killed in their mother’s womb, a massive violation of human rights. Why is the media so coldly indifferent to the killing of New Zealand children in their first nine months of life?

Right to Life requests that the government introduce abstinence sexuality programmes to replace Family Planning school sex education programs which encourage promiscuity with abortions arranged without the knowledge or consent of parents as a backup for failed contraceptives.

Repeat abortions totalled 4,645, 3,008 were having their second, 1,081 were having their third, 326 were having their fourth, 132 their fifth, 62 their sixth, 26 their seventh and 10 their eighth or more. Right to Life believes that these statistics are under reported. Studies conducted in the United States, reveal that repeat abortions are actually 50 per cent of the total abortions reported.

Key Facts Abortion Statistics 2019

The general abortion rate was 13.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, down slightly from 13.7 per 1,000 in 2018
Women aged 20–24 years had the highest abortion rate (19.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 20–24 years), down from 20.5 in 2018.
51 percent of all abortions were for women aged in their 20s
Most abortions (64 percent) were a woman’s first abortion, unchanged from 2018.
64 percent of abortions were performed before the 10th week of the pregnancy, up from 50 percent in 2018.
18 percent of known pregnancies (live births, stillbirths, and abortions) ended in an abortion, unchanged from 2018.
78 young women under the age of 16 years had an abortion in 2019. Statistics have been discontinued on the number of young women who alleged that they had notified their parents or guardian of their abortion.
12,498 abortions were authorised on the grounds of mental health, the grounds used by certifying consultants to provide abortion on demand. This is 98 percent of the total. There were 35 abortions authorised on the grounds of danger to life/ and or Physical Health.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life