Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand is a non-fiction work on abortions in New Zealand written by various authors including David G. McMillan, Janet Fraser, Sylvia G. Chapman, Thomas F. Corkhill, and Tom L. Paget.

Introduction:

Since the rise in the death-rate from septic abortion in 1930, the Department of Health, the medical profession, and women's organizations and societies have shown great concern regarding the problem. The Obstetrical and Gynæcological Society of the New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association conveyed to the Prime Minister a resolution passed at the meeting of its executive held in Wellington on 12th March, 1936, wherein it begged the Prime Ministry to consider the advisability of setting up a Committee of inquiry to investigate this matter.