17,785 Babies Were Killed in Abortions in New Zealand Last Year

The Ministry of Health released the Abortion Services NZ Annual Report 2025, detailing New Zealand’s abortion statistics for the 2024 year – and it’s even worse than we imagined!– 17,785 abortions were performed in 2024 (an increase from the year before, of nearly 10% on the 16,277 abortions reported in 2023.]– 164 of those abortions happened at OVER 20 weeks’ gestation (an increase from the year before)– 389 abortions resulted in complications that were recorded on the day of the abortion (an i