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Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
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ALRANZ has been advocating for reproductive justice since 1970 and we aren't going anywhere ✊🏽
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Tonight at 7pm! Check your email for the link 🖇️.
Abortion Rights Aotearoa is having their AGM tonight at 7pm. Check your email for the link to the meeting.
August 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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A link 🔗 to the meeting and documents will be sent out closer to the meeting date. See you there!
Purple background with a circle filled in with white. Purple text to say ALRANZ is having their AGM on Tuesday 19th August, 7-8pm. More details will be sent out closer to the date.
August 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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📝📓LGBTQIA+ experiences of abortion care following decriminalization in Aotearoa NZ. Give this a read, it is a great piece of research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#abortion #lgbtqiaplus #abortionishealthcare #abortionaccess #nzpol #aotearoa #nz
Research Article ‘Just get a clearer idea of who I am’: LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand following law reform George Parker,Suzanne Miller,Sally Baddock,Elizabeth Kerekere &Chelsea D’Cruz Abstract Sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) is recognised internationally as a human right, but inequities exist in both access to, and outcomes from, SRH in some populations. LGBTQIA+ people accessing abortion services can have harmful experiences related to embedded norms that construct abortion care as being for cisgender heterosexual women. In Aotearoa New Zealand, legislative reform has decriminalised and liberalised abortion care to improve access and reduce outcome inequities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with ten LGBTQIA+ abortion service users, aiming to understand from them what constitutes safe and accessible abortion care, and to examine how well newly reformed abortion services are serving this community. To meet LGBTQIA+ people’s needs, abortion services should continue to offer flexible and multiple pathways into and through care but also need to develop strategies to address cis-heteronormativities across all service levels.
June 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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@ALRANZ standing up for #women & #nonbinary folks affected by the #genderpaygap in front of Minister for Women 🙄 Nicola Grigg #genderquity #paywomen #fightback #nzpol #reproductivejustice
Protests outside Nicola Grigg, Minister for Women of NZ. Black dog wearing a sign that reads "I chase balls not equal pay". Protest sign reads "Minister for the Betrayal of Women. Shame" outside Nicola Grigg's office in Ōtautahi. Protest sign reads "Minister for W(hite) O(overpaid) MEN
May 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Thank you Dr George Parker 💜✊🏾. No government will be able to erase #trans people & try to define what a woman or person is. They're trying, all to control everyone else's lives. ⛔🙅🏾‍♀️🚫 #alranz #nzpol
April 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This coalition government can kick rocks. #ALRANZ #AbortionRightsAotearoa #LGBTQIA #PREGNANTPEOPLE #nzpol #healthnz #NZFirst
April 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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💯 of abortions are NECESSARY! When you don't want to be pregnant, an #abortion is essential healthcare. If your govt fires staff ⚕️ & u can't birth or abort at your local hospital, they must reimburse you. It's healthcare. #nzpol #alranz
April 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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This is outrageous 😤! Why are there no Gynecology & Obstetrics specialist in Whakatāne Hospital AND why are birthing ppl reimbursed for travel for care but ppl who choose #abortion are not reimbursed for travel? #nzpol #abortionishealthcare #SimeonBrown #Luxon #antiabortion #antichoice #alranz
April 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Listen to ALRANZ's interview with the podcast Conversations with Wāhine from the Wellington branch of NCWNZ wherever you get your podcasts. Spotify link: open.spotify.com/episode/4ztQ...
Purple and white text on orange and purple background with the quote from Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand's executive committee "We know 1 in 3 or 4 people will have an abortion over their reproductive lifespan. It's a really normal healthcare that lots of people have." A link to Spotify to listen to the conversation. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ztQNYeHMS6oH39ccPn8i3?si=U_m56JMdS-2sm5Xf0iXNMQ
March 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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For #abortionprividerappreciation day we would like to highlight Dame Margaret Sparrow, who not only campaigned for abortion rights & access, but performed abortions throughout her career. #alranz #abortion #nzpol #abortionrightsaotearoa
March 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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🚨⚠️ Breaking news:
This is a push from the anti-choice, anti-lgbtqia ideology that is present in the National Party, NZ First Party & ACT. Every anti-choice group in the country is pushing for this. Time to contact your schools & MPs! #RSE #nzpol #alranz #Luxon #NZFirst #ACT #TransYouth
March 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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These men & the women who support these folks are anti-choice politicians & "influencers".

They're using the same violent & harassment tactics on our LGBTQIA whānau now and going after providers- just like they do with abortion providers. #nzpol #alranz #abortionrightsaotearoa #lgbtqiaplus
February 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The violence & harassment you see of our rainbow 🌈 community is the same abuse experienced by pro-choice folks. Go kick rocks 🪨 Destiny "Church". We will not be silenced! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾 #abortionrightsaotearoa #alranz #lgbtqiaplus #nzpol #abortion #reproductivejustice #DestinyChurch #aotearoa #NZ
The violence & harassment you see of our rainbow 🌈 community is the same abuse experienced by pro-choice folks. These "Christians" want to make us afraid and hurt us, but we are not in the old ages and we're not ashamed to be who we are and access abortion healthcare. Go kick rocks 🪨 Destiny "Church". We will not be silenced! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾 # #reproductivejustice #DestinyChurch #aotearoa #NZ
February 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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#Abortions ≥20 weeks account for <1% of total abortions in #Aotearoa #NZ but the #antichoice movement is scaremongering saying abortions done later in #pregnancy have significantly increased. Of course they have because w/such few instances ANY increase is significant. Stats 101 duh. 🤥 #nzpol
February 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Gestation at the time of abortion has DECREASED across all ethnic groups since decriminalization, w/ the majority of both surgical & medical abortions ≤ 10 weeks. See the current Te Whatu Ora Abortion Services Annual Report 2024 for more info. #abortion #alranz #nzpol #abortionrightsaotearoa
Hundreds and thousands cake with pink icing with the message: Make abortion accessible, not just legal!!
February 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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We must be vigilant with the #Luxon led Co-Government & future governments that are #antiabortion #antichoice. We cannot follow in the footsteps of #rightwingextremism. #alranz #abortion #nzpol capsulenz.com/think/alarm-...
February 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Simeon Brown quoting unscientific statistics about #abortion & arrogant at 18 when Dr Sparrow was 75 & the MOST qualified to talk about reproductive health. He was arrogant then...seems nothing has changed #nzpol #alranz #abortionrightsaotearoa #SimeonBrown #Luxon #NZNationalParty
January 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Dame Margaret Sparrow remembering then 18 year old Simeon Brown leading the fight against Family Planning while President of Right to Life - an anti-choice religious organization in Aotearoa #abortion #alranz #nzpol #SimeonBrown #Luxon #NZNationalParty
January 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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⭐ Thank you BHN Big Hairy News : #BHN for talking about this #AntiChoice pick for Minister of Health and saying ANTI-CHOICE instead of that empty self -given title they use. 👏🏾✊🏾🙌🏾 #alranz #abortionrightsaotearoa #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #abortion #nzpol #abortion
January 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This morning, ALRANZ sent this letter to the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, to express our concern at the appointment of Simeon Brown to Minister of Health:
#abortion #abortionishealthcare #nzpol #Luxon #NZ #Aotearoa #alranz #abortionrightsaotearoa
Kia ora koutou Prime Minister and the Coalition Government We are writing this letter to express our concern at the recent appointment of Simeon Brown to Minister of Health. The Minister of Health is responsible for overseeing abortion care in Aotearoa New Zealand. Given the promise that was forced out of you, Prime Minister Luxon, during the 2023 election not to curtail access to abortion, it seems like a provocation to appoint Mr Brown to this role given he has been an anti-abortion advocate for his entire adult life. While a student at the University of Auckland, Mr Brown was the President of ProLife Auckland and successfully affiliated the group with the Auckland University Students’ Association. While in Parliament, Mr Brown voted against the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 at its first, second and final reading. Mr Brown made “no apology” for his opposition to reform, instead introducing a Supplementary Order Paper proposing to track New Zealand women’s fertility by recording the number of abortions and live births a person had. Mr Brown also voted against the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Act 2022 at all three readings. In 2022, Mr Brown celebrated the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, which curtailed abortion rights in America. Given Mr Brown’s persistent opposition to New Zealanders’ bodily autonomy in the face of massive public support for abortion – 78 per cent of New Zealanders support the right to an abortion – his appointment leaves us concerned and perplexed about the state of affairs. How can you, Prime Minister, assure women across Aotearoa New Zealand that their access to healthcare will not be affected given Mr Brown’s personal, ideological views about women’s private medical decisions? And how can we trust the promise you made that abortion law, access and funding would not change under your government? We look forward to receiving your res…
January 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Rest in Power Cecile Richards. A life long champion of women's rights & bodily autonomy for all. ALRANZ's Co-President Alma w/Cecile, 2013. Our right to our own body is never secure - see Luxon's govt. ALRANZ stands w/people everywhere fighting for their right to self-determination #abortion #nzpol
Photograph of Cecile Richards with blonde hair smiling and standing next to Alma, dark curly hair, at Planned Parenthood in the US in 2013.
January 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Sharing with permission. A letter to the President and Board of RANZCOG from one of Aotearoa's gynaecologists who knows first hand how important abortion healthcare is for all folks who can get pregnant.
#abortionrightsaotearoa #alranz #abortion #abortionishealthcare #nzpol #luxon
Sharing with permission. A letter to the President and Board of RANZCOG from one of Aotearoa's gynaecologists who knows first hand how important abortion healthcare is for all folks who can get pregnant. Abortion is healthcare. THANK YOU, Mairi, for allowing us to share this letter to the wonderful people at RANZCOG - the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. #abortionrightsaotearoa #alranz #AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #abortion #ReproductiveJustice #abortionishealthcare #nzpol #luxon #nz #aotearoa
January 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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This headline feels ACCURATE.....are they reading our minds?! #nzpol #Luxon #SimeonBrown #Alranz #AbortionRightsAotearoa #AbortionIsHealthcare #BodilyAutonomy #ProAbortion #ReproductiveJustice #NZ #Aotearoa #Abortion
Headline reads: 'I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down- I just didn't expect them to be such losers' This headline feels ACCURATE.....are they reading our minds?! #nzpol #Luxon #SimeonBrown #Alranz #AbortionRightsAotearoa #AbortionIsHealthcare #BodilyAutonomy #ProAbortion #ReproductiveJustice #NZ #Aotearoa #Abortion
January 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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No further restrictions on #PubertyBlockers! It is the latest 'boogeyman' for the #antichoice crowd. If they can control everyone else's bodies they can do every unethical monitoring of society. We will not be erased or silenced 🤐. #alranz #nzpol #genderaffirmingcare #bodilyautonomy #transrights 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾💜
Screenshot of Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand ALRANZ commenting on what a wild Sunday this is - first the announcement of anti-choice, anti-lgbtqia MP Simeon Brown for Health Minister and then responding to the politically motivated review by this government around puberty blockers for youth. Politicians inserting themselves in private medical decisions have NEVER made healthcare better. This is another attack on bodily autonomy and bodily rights. Trans people are people with full human rights, including access to healthcare. No further restrictions on puberty blockers! ALRANZ stands with our transgender communities.
January 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Christopher Luxon's Coalition Government is putting a less qualified anti-choice, anti-abortion MP to lead the health portfolio. An MP who *CELEBRATES* the fall of abortion rights and abortion access in the United States.

This is wildly irresponsible. We deserve better. #abortion #nzpol #Luxon
January 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM