This week Statistics New Zealand released Abortion Statistics for 2012. Overall, twenty four percent of abortions (around 3,600) were performed on Māori women. From population tables we calculate the Māori abortion rate is 23.7 per 1,000 Māori women, (aged 15–44 years). This is a slightly lower rate than 2011 (which
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