This week Statistics New Zealand released Abortion Statistics for 2011. Overall, one quarter of abortions (around 3,850) were performed on Māori women. We calculate the Māori abortion rate is 25.4 per 1,000 Māori women, (aged 15–44 years). The general rate was 17.3 abortions per 1,000 women of this age group.
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