24 Jul 2019

Family Planning CEO discusses abortion law reform

From Morning Report, 8:15 am on 24 July 2019

Hundreds of people marched to Parliament yesterday calling for the country's abortion laws to be overhauled and removed from the Crimes Act.

New abortion laws are currently being considered by senior government ministers.

The Justice Minister favours the Law Commission's third option - which would legalise abortion but require a woman's mental health to be examined after 22 weeks of pregnancy.

For more detail on what this means, Family Planning's chief executive Jackie Edmond joins Susie Ferguson in the Wellington studio.