New Zealand’s Abortion Statistics

Respected journalist Karl du Fresne published a very good article this week, highlighting abortion statistics in New Zealand. He references this government report. Karl also points out the obvious wokeness coming from the Ministry of Health:

A peculiar aspect of the report is that it refers to pregnant “persons” and “people” rather than “women”, but disappointingly it doesn’t disclose the number of men who became pregnant.

Yep, we just can’t escape “pregnant people” anymore. We look forward to seeing MoH updating next year’s report with the number of men who became pregnant. 😉

You can read Karl’s full article, published here on The Platform.

Looking at the latest abortion statistics, it’s alarming that 18.6% of known pregnancies ended in an abortion. What’s also clear from the latest statistics is that abortion is predominantly being used as a form of birth control. 65 per cent of women who had abortions were not using contraception at the time of conception. 1253 abortions were  performed on teenage girls (twenty-six abortions were performed on girls aged between 11 and 14).

Here is a summary of abortion statistics published by the Ministry of Health in the 2021 Annual Report:

• 13,246 abortions were performed in New Zealand in 2020, up from 12,857 in 2019
• 18.6% of known pregnancies ended in an abortion in 2020, compared with 17.7% in 2019
• 64.8 per cent of women who had abortions were not using contraception at the time of conception
• 3000 women had had at least one previous abortion. Forty-four women had had six or more abortions and 549 had had three or more.
• The mean age of those having an abortion in 2020 was 28 years
• 21.7% of all abortions were for those identifying as Māori in 2020
• 8% of all abortions were for those identifying as Pacific peoples in 2020
• 45% of abortions were accessed before eight weeks’ gestation
• 1253 abortions were  performed on teenage girls (twenty-six abortions were performed on girls aged between 11 and 14)

*This post was written by Family First staff writers.