{"id":45854,"date":"2022-06-29T10:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/29\/spotlight-back-on-abortion-in-new-zealand-after-us-roe-v-wade-ruling"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:36:28","slug":"spotlight-back-on-abortion-in-new-zealand-after-us-roe-v-wade-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45854","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight back on abortion in New Zealand after US Roe v Wade ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs spar over their stances, with opposition leader Christopher Luxon forced to manage the gulf between his personal views and National party policy<\/p>\n<p>As the repeal of Roe v Wade rolls back women\u2019s abortion rights in the US, New Zealand politicians are facing fresh scrutiny of their own anti-abortion stances.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders broadly support abortion rights, with Ipsos polling indicating 77% of the population supports a woman\u2019s right to terminate a pregnancy in some or any circumstances. In 2020, the country formally decriminalised abortion, allowing terminations at up to 20 weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/29\/spotlight-back-on-abortion-in-new-zealand-after-us-roe-v-wade-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs spar over their stances, with opposition leader Christopher Luxon forced to manage the gulf between his personal views and National party policyAs the repeal of Roe v Wade rolls back women\u2019s abortion rights in the US, New Zealand politicians are fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45855,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45854\/revisions\/45855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}