The overturning of Roe V Wade in the US continues to make political waves here in New Zealand. National MP and social conservative Simon O'Connor has served up a mea culpa to his caucus colleagues for a post over the weekend he now admits caused distress. He took it down, but the post has stirred up more questions about what could happen under a National government, when they'd rather be talking about the government and it's failure to rein in inflation. Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.
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