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Kōrero: Health advocacy and self-help

Abortion advocacy

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Abortion advocacy

The Women's Health Information Centre (previously The Health Alternatives for Women) worked to establish Lyndhurst Hospital, which offered first-trimester abortions to women who lived within the Canterbury District Health Board boundaries. Pro- and anti-abortion campaigners protest outside the hospital in 1986.

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Reference: March 1986

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Rosemary Du Plessis rāua ko Anne Scott, Health advocacy and self-help – Women’s and men’s health organisations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28061/abortion-advocacy (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rosemary Du Plessis rāua ko Anne Scott, i tāngia i te 5 April 2011.