My schedule is pretty chocker today so blogging was going to be last on the list. But one of my daily emails from Statistics NZ just arrived and I am disgusted.

Almost 18,000 abortions were performed in New Zealand in 2008, a few hundred down on the year before.
Women aged 20-24 years had the highest abortion rate (median age of women having an abortion was 24.3 years) and most abortions (63 percent) were a woman’s first abortion.

All those babies.

There are legitimate reasons for some women to ask for abortions – but 18,000 of them?

There are legitimate reasons for some unwanted pregnancies – but 18,000 of them?

Fifty condoms don’t burst every day.

Going back to the old “ship them off to the cousins in Hawke’s Bay for a long holiday” may not be an option but somewhere along the line women have to own up to our ability to carry another life.

If you don’t want to get pregnant – take precautions!!