Statistics New Zealand has released Abortion Statistics for 2010. Overall, one quarter of abortions (around 4,000) were performed on Māori women. The Māori rate was 26.9 abortions per 1,000 Māori women (aged 15–44 years), the general rate was 18.1 abortions per 1,000 women.
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