Abortion - Law and legislation

Date: 1978

From: Various artists :[Posters on various political issues, including women's issues, health and education, the environment, abortion, peace, Ireland, Vietnam, racial, gay and lesbian rights. ca 1970-1990].

By: Abortion Rights Committee

Reference: Eph-C-OCONNELL-Abortion-1978-02

Description: A poster advertising a concert at Wellington Town Hall. Yellow poster has at the top a row of eight photographs of a dancing figure. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 423 x 302 mm. Provenance: Donated by Therese O'Connell in 1992.

Date: 1980 - 1995

By: New Zealand Family Planning Association

Reference: Eph-D-BIRTH-CONTROL-FPA

Description: New Zealand and overseas content. Includes family planning and birth control posters from family planning associations in Queensland, Western Australia, Kenya, New South Wales, Victoria, and London. Also includes New Zealand poster issued by the New Zealand group, Appeal for Population Control, probably 1960s. Also contains posters about consumer rights (Queensland), 2 copies of Japanese calendar advertising contraceptive medications, environment poster from Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women's Association, New Zealand Family Violence poster 1994, poster about equal employment opportunities (NZ). Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s) as posters (plus some duplicates).. 13.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photolithographs, some in colour, sizes varying. Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Posters to Ephemera, both NZ and overseas, on family planning and related matters - To Oral History Collection - Cassete tape: Abortion - Is there a Christian answer (side 1) and Abortion (side 2).

Date: 1975

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :60 cartoon photocopies published 1975 - 1976 in Sunday News.

Reference: H-358-008

Description: Shows a large man presenting the parliament buildings to a crowd of people. They are clapping enthusiastically while shouts come from the building. Refers to hot topics of debate in parliament which include, Muldoon before the disciplinary committee, the Carmen Inquiry, Gerry Wall's amendments and National Superannuation scheme. Extended Title - Carmen inquiry. Gerry Wall's amendments... National's 'superannuation' scheme. Ladies & gentlemen - for your amusement and entertainment... Parliament. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, A4 size Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1970 - 1979

By: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-ABORTION-1970s

Description: Includes: Abortion; a woman's democratic right. Protest meeting, Wellington High School Hall. Monday July 19; March, Friday July 14 [1978]. (2 copies) "Abortion; a woman's right to choose". [Newspaper of 8 pages, probably an extract from a university magazine. 1972]. Abortion Action Day. Friday September 15. Throw out the restrictive abortion laws. Repeal the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act. [1978]. (2 copies) "Abortion and women's rights". WONAAC newsletter. Newsprint. 1974. (2 copies) Abortion is a woman's right. Supplement [to "Salient" 5 April 1976. 4 pages]. (2 copies) Abortion rally on the opening of parliament. Wednesday 23rd June. March assembles Pigeon Park. 12 pm. Repeal the abortion laws. [June 1976]. (2 copies). According to Roth catalogue slip, this poster was printed by Robyn and Jill, Herstory Press, and signed by Chris Poland. Abortion Rights Committee. Roll up, roll up. ARC fundrainsing concert, Town Hall Sun July 2 [1978]. (2 copies) Auckland W.E.A. Seminar, Maclaurin Hall, University of Auckland, Saturday 24 April 1971. "Contraception, abortion & human rights". Speakers Prof G Bonham, Prof G C Liggins, Prof A H McNaughton, Dr Carol Shand. Backstreet Theatre Group travelling NZ. Abortion a woman's right to choose? Admission free. [1976] (Three copies of this, all slightly different - Wellington, Rotorua, and Taupo) COACTION. A womb of one's own? Not according to this man!? [Frank Gill]. A woman's womb is private property! [1977] (2 copies) COACTION. Wanted for women! This man's vote! {Richard Prebble]. A woman's womb is private property. [1977] COACTION. Wanted for women! This man's vote! [Hugh Watt]. 1977. COACTION. Wanted for women! This man's vote! [David Lange]. A woman's womb is private property! [1977]. COACTION. Pregnancy: the way you want it? Will he vote for your rights? [Jim McLay]. A woman's womb is private property! [1977] COACTION. Pregnancy: the way you want it? Will he vote for your rights? [Merv Wellington]. A woman's womb is private property!. [1977]. COACTION. Pregnancy: the way you want it? Will he vote for your rights? [2 other unidentified politicians]. A woman's womb is private property! [1977]. COACTION. A Woman's womb is private property. Will he vote for state control? [Rob Muldoon]. [1977] (2 copies) A Craccum supplement. March 31. International Abortion Action Day. [1979]. (2 copies) Defend women's right to abortion. Rally May 19 at the opening of Parliament. Oppose the Royal Commission's recommendations. [1977?] Don't believe all you've been told about the new abortion law. Here are the facts. NZ Truth, 6 June 1978, page 15. The fight for women's rights! Abortion - the right to choose. NZ Tribune supplement, September 1978, pages 1-4. If Muldoon could get pregnant, abortion would be legal. [1979]. (2 copies) "The knitting needle bill; or, A trip abroad (a period piece)". 1976. (3 copies) March for safe legal abortion. March 8, International Women's Day. Assemble Pigon Park. Dance - Come to March 8 Social evening. [1978?] March 8: Fight for legal abortion. International Women's Day. [Sticker/ banner. 1978]. (2 copies) March 8 Committee. Safe legal abortion our right! International Women's Day [1978]. (3 different copies) National Women's Abortion Action Conference, July 14-15. Union Hall, Victoria University, Wellington. [1973] (2 copies) NZUSA Women's Rights Action Committee. Abortion is a Woman's Woman's Woman's Woman's Woman's democratic right! [1978. Dated from Roth catalogue slips]. NZUSA Women's Rights Action Committee. International Women's Day supplement. March 8 [1978]. NZUSA. Oppose the Royal Commission. 1893 votes for women; 1977 Abortion a democratic right/ 1893-1977: The struggle continues! [1977] (2 copies, one as page 9 of "Salient" 12 September 1977) NZUSA for Wellington COACTION. Oppose Royal Commission. Support national protest weekend July 8-10. [1977]. New Zealand University Students Association. "... a pernicious piece of legislation ..." - Martin Finlay, Minister of Justice. That is what Martyn Finlay thinks of Gerard Wall's Hospitals Amendment Act 1975. Published by the New Zealand University Students' Association, PO Box 6368, Te Aro, Wellington [1975?] NZUSA Women's Rights Action Committee. Why must women suffer? Repeal all repressive abortion laws. March 31, International Abortion Action Day. [1979]. Repeal Contraception, Sterilisation & Abortion Act. International day of action, March 30. Forum 12, Demonstration 1 pm, Assemble University Student Union Quad, Princes St. [1979]. Right to choose. Issue no 15, Summer 1978. Royal Commission blues; a story of the future. You can stop it now. Write to your M.P. [1977]. 321,119. Vol. 1, no 1, November 1978. Official organ of the REPEAL movement. WEL WEL WEL. Vol. 1, no. 1. Supplement to WEL newsletter Vol 4, no. 9, October 1978. (2 copies) A woman's right to choose. No more enforced labour. Repeal the abortion laws now! / designer Nga Tamahine Marama. 1976. (3 copies) Women beware, babies by force! Royal Commission on Abortion. (2 copies, one with handwritten addendum as follows: Public meeting 2 pm - Tiki Room YWCA. 30th April) [ca 1977] Women. Patriarchy puts you down. Man's conscience controls women's bodies. [ca 1977] Women: Stop M.P.s restricting your right to abortion. Fight the new anti-abortion act. Make abortion a woman's right to choose! / Women's Abortion Action Campaign. [1978-1979]. Women's abortion rights conference. March 18-19. Public rally March 17 [1978 or 1979 - 2 copies in each year]. Women's National Abortion Action Committee. Women: stop m.p.s restricting your right to abortion. May 17. Rally 12.30 ... March wirh trade unions under WONAAC banner. [1979] (2 copies) Women's National Abortion Publicity Committee. Throw out the restrictive abortion laws. Repeal all the abortion laws. Abortion a woman's right. Protest the opening of parliament, Thursday May 11 [1978]. (2 copies) Would men support legal abortion if it was them that got pregnant? [1972?] See also separate folders of posters issued by individual pro and anti-abortion groups. Quantity: 53 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying below 500 mm.

Date: 1980 - 1989

By: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-ABORTION-1980s

Description: Includes: "As a matter of fact"; a film about abortion. Sat April 4 1.30 Crossways ... Organised by WONAAC and Hecate for International Abortion Action Day. Abortion a woman's right. [1981]. (1 green copy, 1 smaller pink copy) For a liberal parliament on abortion: Kapiti M Shields; Miramar P Neilson; Wellington Central F Wilde; Western Hutt I Woolloff. [1981]. NZUSA Women's Rights Action Committee. Our bodies, our lives, our choice! Stop enforced labour. Repeal all repressive abortion laws. [1980]. (2 copies) SPUC's favourite philanderer, Cecil Parkinson resigns, but Kidd soldiers on. Published by the Society for the Promotion of Uppity Cocks. [January 1984] (2 copies) Women's National Abortion Action Campaign. Wome vs Dr Wall. Rally at Court of Appeal, Nov 22. Anti-abortionist Dr Melvyn Wall is asking the Court to introduce further procedural obstacles to a woman's right to abortion. [1982]. (2 yellow copies, 1 copy green print on white) Women's Rights Action Committee. Reproduction: our choice. The present abortion laws deny this choice! International Abortion Action Day, March 31st [1980]. See also separate folders of posters issued by individual pro and anti-abortion groups. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters (plus duplicates).. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying below 500 mm.

Date: 1980

By: New Zealand University Students' Association. Women's Rights Action Committee

Reference: Eph-D-ABORTION-1980

Description: Includes: [New Zealand University Students' Association. Women's Rights Action Committee?] Enforced labour; repeal the abortion laws. [1960s, or 1973 or 1980] (2 copies) To the streets. March for the right of all women to choose abortion. March 31st, Assemble noon, Pigeon Park [1980] You marched for the blacks in S Africa. Now rally for the right of N.Z. women to choose abortion. Opening of Parliament, May 28th 1.30 [1980]. "Enforced labour" poster may be a reprint of an earlier poster from 1960s (acc. to Roth list) or 1972/73 Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters.. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying below 700 mm.

Date: 2019

By: Craw, Georgie, active 2019-2020

Reference: OHColl-1581

Description: Interviews conducted by interviewer Georgie Craw in 2019 with figures involved in the Sisters Overseas Service (SOS), which helped people travel to Australia to access abortions in the late 1970s. SOS was a grassroots response to the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, which made it virtually impossible for most women to access abortions in New Zealand. The interviews in this collection generally focus on the experiences of women involved in the Women’s Liberation Movement who also became involved in SOS. The interviewees were: Sarah Calvert, Christine Dann, Beverly Davy, Lynsey Ferrari, Dilys Grant, Kindra Howard, Denise McEnteer, Diane Shannon, and Joss Shawyer. Project received Award in Oral History funding from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage in 2018. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 9 Interview(s). 20 Electronic document(s). 17 digital sound recording(s). 9 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement forms. Search dates: 2019

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-068

Description: Photographs relating to protests and demonstrations within the alphabetical sequence A, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1979

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-: 12 copies of cartoon newsclipping published in the Dominion, 1973 to 1979

Reference: H-719-009

Description: National Party MP, Marilyn Waring sets the cat amongst the pigeons with her stance on abortion. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 Photocopy

Date: 1988

By: Wilkinson, Pat, active 1975-1980

Reference: MS-Papers-10280

Description: Mostly about Pat Wilkinson and the abortion issue, especially her involvement with the Sisters Overseas Service, an abortion service for South Island women Quantity: 1 folder(s) (6 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Pat Wilkinson, Devonport, Auckland, 1988

Date: 1974 - 1982

Reference: Eph-C-ABORTION-WONAAC

Description: Includes: Women's National Abortion Action Campaign. Wome vs Dr Wall. Rally at Court of Appeal, Nov 22. Anti-abortionist Dr Melvyn Wall is asking the Court to introduce further procedural obstacles to a woman's right to abortion. [1982]. (1 copy green print on white) Women's National Abortion Action Campaign. [1974]. Newsprint flier printed on both sides. Women's National Abortion Action Campaign. Get it on to get it off; prevent unwanted pregnancy. Condoms available at your chemist. [1981?] See also separate folders of posters issued by pro and anti-abortion groups. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters, sizes varying below 500 mm.

Date: [1976-1984]

From: Waring, Marilyn Joy, 1952- : Collection

Reference: 78-102

Description: Comprises subject files, caucus committee and public expenditure files, ministerial files, Statutes Revision Committee and National Party files, and invitations; correspondence, submissions, bills, elections, electorate material, files re women's issues, electoral and ministerial correspondence, speech notes caucus papers, files on various subjects, particularly abortion, issues affecting women, health and welfare, matrimonial property and disarmament, and other papers, Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: Boxes numbered in sequence of acquisition. Quantity: 84 box(es). 28.66 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1978

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :[6 copies of cartoon newsclipping published in National Business Review 1975 to 1977]

Reference: H-718-006

Description: New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and the head of the church stand on a cliff's edge. The clergyman holds his fingers up in a blessing and Muldoon holds a key over the cliff about to drop it. In the foreground is a naked, pregnant woman bound in chains with a large padlock binding the chains together. The can unlock the padlock byt Muldoon is about to dash that possibility. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy.

Date: 1983 - 01 Jan 1983

From: New Zealand National Party: Sound and video recording collection

Reference: OHInt-0226/066

Description: Sound recording of the Parliamentary debate during the introduction of The Status of Unborn Children's Bill introduced by Doug Kidd, MP for Marlborough. Other speakers include Kerry Burke, Dr Wall, Brian McDonnell, Mike Minogue and Russell Marshall (continued on tape 002364), Bruce Beetham and Graeme Lee. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-002369, OHC-002364 Quantity: 2 audiocassette(s) microcassettes. 45 Minutes Duration.

Date: 1972

From: [New Zealand posters concerning abortion, including those produced by pro and anti-abortion groups. 1970s].

Reference: Eph-C-ABORTION-1972-01

Description: Shows a print from a photograph of a pregnant man, looking worried. The photograph used is that from a poster designed by agency Cramer Saatchi for the Health Education Council, Britain, in 1970-1971. It was titled: "Would you be more careful if it was you who got pregnant?" (Information from Liz McQuiston's "Graphic agitation" (1995), page 176) Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 355 x 252 mm.

Date: 1972 - 1981 - 1993

Reference: Eph-A-BADGES-Skudder

Description: Includes: Repeal all abortion laws. A woman's right to choose; end forced sterilisation [1972?] Women Against the Tour (White print on black background)[1981] (2 copies) Women's Suffrage; Whakatū Wāhine 1893-1993 [1993] Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour prints on circular badges, diameters 45 - 60 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Susan Skudder, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1959-1974

From: Brew, Helen Jean, 1922-2013: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12211-056

Description: A variety of material gathered in one folder. Comprises papers presented at special conferences of the Federation of Parents' Centres, notes relating to childbirth, reports, and financial papers of the Wellington Parents' Centre, hand-written notes ,and the Federation's postal course for expectant mothers, which was organised by the Auckland Parents' Centre in 1971. Also report by the Wellington Branch of the National Council of Women on "Maternity services in New Zealand", a letter by Harold Bourne on abortion law reform (1959), a conference speech on ante-natal services, to be delivered at the National Women's Hospital in Auckland in August 1963, and arrangements for a speaking tour of Gisborne region on mental health issues,. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript with manuscript annotations.

Date: 1975-1978

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Eph-C-ROTH-Abortion

Description: Includes: 1975: Herstory Press. 'If male MPs were pregnant Parliament House would be an abortion clinic'. Demonstration protesting the closure of the Remuera Abortion Clinic, May 1975. Photograph by Dianne Cadwallader; published and distributed by Herstory Press, PO Box 3871, Wellington. [1975]. 1976: The knitting needle bill, or, The trip abroad (a period piece). Published by the Orlando Press, PO Box 28012, Wellington, MCMLXXVI [1976] 1977: Photocopy of two pages from the NZ Observer, November 1977, showing one one page a copy of 'The Knitting Needle Bill', and on the other a column by Dr. Erich Geiringer about the abortion debate, in the context of Geiringer's having sent copies of the song to Members of Parliament. 1978: Working Women's Alliance. 'Fight Government attacks on women! fight for the right to legal abortion'. [1978]. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Prints, mainly photolithographs, varying sizes.

Date: 1976

From: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :[Miscellaneous original cartoons. Published in the Auckland star, 1976 - 1979].

Reference: A-335-019

Description: A witch-looking woman stands on a chair to retrieve an old doctor's bag, from which she blows the dust, while reaching for the 'Back street abortions while-U-wait' sign. This is the period of debate of abortion law reform. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 201 x 256 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1977-1980

From: Waring, Marilyn Joy, 1952- : Collection

Reference: 84-131-77/04

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).