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Story: Abortion

Page 6. External links and sources

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  • Mein Smith, Philippa. Maternity in dispute: New Zealand 1920–1939. Wellington: Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1986.

  • McCulloch, Alison. Fighting to choose: the abortion rights struggle in New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2013.

  • Sparrow, Margaret. Abortion then and now: New Zealand abortion stories from 1940 to 1980. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2010.

  • Sparrow, Margaret. Rough on women: abortion in 19th-century New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2014.

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Megan Cook, Abortion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/167668/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 21 April 2011.