David Cormack in his article, "Why Simon Bridges is wrong about changing abortion law", refers to Prime Minister Jacinda Arden as saying she wants abortion taken out of the Crimes Act.
Cormack's article fails to provide coherent reasons why abortion should be taken out of the Crimes Act, other than it "… causes people to lie to get an abortion".
The reason s182 of the Crimes Act provides that killing an unborn child is a serious crime and why s183 provides that procuring an abortion is also a crime is that both offences involve the taking of human life. That is why both offences are in the Crimes Act in the first place.
S187A of the Crimes Act provides however that procuring an abortion (s183) can be lawful in certain medical circumstances if the pregnancy is less than 20 weeks and in for stricter medical circumstances if the pregnancy is more than 20 weeks. Two medical consultants are necessary to certify whether such medical circumstances exist before an abortion can be rendered lawful.
The Minister of Justice Andrew Little has stated that the Government wants the abortion law to be treated "as a health issue". Various recent media articles repeat the theme that "abortion should be taken out of the Crimes Act", without attempting to address the critical question for society, which is if and when and why the taking of human life should be permitted.