This post is a re-post by Mike Sullivan at Saving Downs. Reads…
The Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ (ALRANZ) recently published “16 Reasons to Change NZ’s Abortion Laws”, as part of a campaign to lobby on this issue in the upcoming parliamentary elections in New Zealand.
As an advocacy group, we leave the wider abortion debate to others. Our focus is on the rights of the Down syndrome community and prenatal discrimination. But when a group walks head-on into a campaign that tramples over the rights of our community, we will have something to say.
ALRANZ are a small group of extreme abortion advocates who want abortion on request up to birth in New Zealand without restrictions. They support disability selective abortion under the all encompassing “for any reason”. Let’s take a look at their “reasons” for wanting to change New Zealand Law.