2) "Abortion is dangerous"

Claims and counterclaims abound on this question. We believe, however, that there is no question that early abortions, performed on healthy women under proper medical conditions are even safer than childbirth. And the only way to ensure that most abortions can be carried out early, when they are safest, is to make sure that when women want them they get them, and are not kept waiting while someone else decides their late.

We concede that there are dangers inherent in the abortion procedure, just as there are in any operation. But how can they be compared to the dangers of illegal abortions performed by unqualified people?

It will be time to discuss the essential dangers involved in abortion when the practice is given the same priority and is researched equally as fully as are the methods of improving [unclear: lerthty] and maintaining pregnancy. If New Zealand can produce experts in these fields, surely it can do likewise for the cause of preventing unwanted births.