Statistics New Zealand has released Abortion Statistics for the year ending December 2017. Overall, 23.4% of abortions (around 3,100) were performed on Māori women. From population tables we calculate the Māori abortion rate is 19.4 per 1,000 Māori women (aged 15 to 44 years). The general rate was 13.7 abortions per 1,000
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