In May the Sunday Star Times appears to have started a bit of a campaign around supporting parental notification for "teen" abortions, featuring SHOCK stories at the top of their news agenda three weeks' running.
Mothers For Choice did some media work in response to this, in particular the following:
Spokesperson Rebecca Matthews on Back Benchers (in Chapter 2)
Row rages over school abortion - NZ Herald
Some abortion secrets need to be kept, say advocates - TVNZ
Debate continues over abortion controversy - Otago Daily Times
I wrote a blog post critiquing the original SST article
Mothers For Choice backs girls' right - our original media release on the issue at Scoop
Showing posts with label Teens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teens. Show all posts
Friday, June 3, 2011
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Herald: More teenage pregnancies, fewer births
Article in the Herald today, including:
The teen pregnancy rate hit a 40-year peak in 2008 despite a long-term downward trend in the proportion of teenagers actually giving birth.
A report by Social Development Ministry analyst Dr Barbara Collins has found that an almost continuous rise in the number of teenagers having abortions has more than offset the downward trend in the actual birthrate since the mid-1980s.
Both the abortion rate and the teenage birthrate dropped last year, but the overall teen pregnancy rate was still the fifth-highest since the teenage birthrate peaked in the early 1970s.
...Dr Collins' data show that the teenage birthrate dropped from a peak of 67.6 for every 1000 girls aged 15 to 19 in 1972 to a postwar low of 25.6 in 2002.Click through for the whole article.
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