{"id":238374,"date":"2020-03-18T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238374"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:57:31","slug":"new-zealand-passes-law-decriminalising-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/new-zealand-passes-law-decriminalising-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand passes law decriminalising abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Great news!<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s parliament has passed a bill decriminalising abortion and allowing women to choose a termination up to 20 weeks into a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Voting to remove the procedure from the country&#8217;s Crimes Act changes a law that has been in force since 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, two doctors were required to approve an abortion &#8211; and this could only happen if there was a &#8220;serious danger&#8221; to the pregnant woman&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on its third reading by 68 votes to 51.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier plan to put the issue to a public referendum was abandoned during the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From now abortions will be rightly treated as a health issue,&#8221; Justice Minister Andrew Little said in a statement following the vote on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The previous law required a woman seeking an abortion to go through many hoops,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;The changes agreed to by parliament will better ensure women get advice and treatment in a more timely way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-51955148?fbclid=IwAR16B67UBWEWsZtJyXwBy6XgGwNWKKsxv7pY2USp52etfF1BoL6W9nePqNI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-51955148?fbclid=IwAR16B67UBWEWsZtJyXwBy6XgGwNWKKsxv7pY2USp52etfF1BoL6W9nePqNI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Great news! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}