The claim that “Polls
conducted by Family First found New Zealanders are broadly pro-choice” (How
rare, Mr Bridges?, May 30), proves that The Dominion Post’s regard
for facts has shrunk along with its size.
Recent polling of the same
New Zealanders actually shows strong support for legal safeguards and
greater time limits on the provision of abortion, even from those who
generally support abortion.
Kiwis, who know much more
now than they used to about the dangers of abortion, want greater provision of
safeguards around issues like coercion, standards for abortion providers, and
informed consent.
Even your cartoonist
Murdoch, in depicting a pregnant woman as “a desperate criminal”, has lost her
grip on reality. No pregnant woman who has an abortion is a criminal.
It’s the certifying
consultants who authorise abortions illegally, risking women’s lives and health
along with the loss of their children, who are the criminals. But paid millions
annually as they are by the government, no one could call them
desperate.
Just as an aside, who
remembers the last prosecution of one such fraudulent ‘health’ practitioner?
And who wants a newspaper
that can't report the facts?
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