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NZ Doctor 3 September 2015 “One day my daughter didn’t come home on the bus.” Chilling for any parent. In this instance and without parental knowledge or consent, a mother’s 15-year-old daughter had been taken during school hours to another town for an abortion. This was only revealed to the family when the daughter attempted…

Stuff co.nz 4 September 2015 | OPINION: Mention abortion and a lot of people metaphorically block their ears and start humming loudly. At the very sight of the word in this column, some readers will probably turn the page and move on. But this is an issue that refuses to go away. It was re-ignited…

C-Fam.org 19 August 2015  The young mother named her baby “Milagros.” That is Spanish for Miracle. Amnesty International wanted the baby aborted. The brave girl in Paraguay was allegedly raped by her stepfather, and pregnant at 11 years old. Amnesty International used her case to demand Paraguay change its pro-life laws to allow an abortion. UN…

‘She is still a child’ – Mum ‘vowing’ to change law around teenage abortion OneNewsNow 28 August 2015 A mother whose daughter’s school organised an abortion for the teenager without parental consent is petitioning parliament for a law change to prevent it happening again. Under New Zealand law a child can have an abortion organised…

‘She had to go through it alone’ – mum wants abortion law change NZ Herald 27 August 2015 A woman has told politicians the harrowing background to her daughter’s suicide attempt, in a bid to have abortion law changed. Hillary Kieft, of Stratford, appeared before the Justice and Electoral select committee and, with pauses to…

Hillary Kieft talks to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking about her petition to change the parental notification laws (28 Aug 2015) http://bobmccoskrie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Newstalk-ZB-Hillary-Kieft-with-Mike-Hosking.mp3

and the response from National MP Judith Collins who originally sponsored a parental notification law change in 2004.