The law guarantees your right to refuse to participate in abortion.
Section 46 – your legal right to object
Parliament enshrined the right to conscientious objection in the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act, 1977. This lawful protection is clearly spelt out in Section 46 of the Act.
Recently, the Abortion Supervisory Committee reminded licensed hospitals and clinics that any staff who have conscientious objections to participating in abortions are protected by Section 46. Medical and nursing staff working in facilities that provide abortions need to know about their rights under Section 46.
The Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1977/0112/4.0/DLM17680.html
Section 46 – Conscientious objection
(1) Notwithstanding anything in any other enactment, or any rule of law, or the terms of any oath or of any contract (whether of employment or otherwise), no medical practitioner, nurse, or other person shall be under any obligation—
(a) to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion or any operation undertaken or to be undertaken for the purpose of rendering the patient sterile:
(b) to fit or assist in the fitting, or supply or administer or assist in the supply or administering, of any contraceptive, or to offer or give any advice relating to contraception,—
if he objects to doing so on grounds of conscience.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any employer—
(a) to deny to any employee or prospective employee any employment, accommodation, goods, service, right, title, privilege, or benefit merely because that employee or prospective employee objects on grounds of conscience to do any act referred to in subsection (1); or
(b) to make the provision or grant to any employee or prospective employee of any employment, accommodation, goods, service, right, title, privilege, or benefit conditional upon that other person doing or agreeing to do any thing referred to in that subsection.
(3) Every person who suffers any loss by reason of any act or omission rendered unlawful by subsection (2) shall be entitled to recover damages from the person responsible for the act or omission.
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