The Women's National Abortion Action Campaign was initiated to campaign for the removal of all restrictions on women's right to control their own reproductive lives. We believe that one of the most outstanding injustices to women in New Zealand is the fact that restrictions on this right still exist, a right which we feel is basic and essential for the achievement of real emancipation and human dignity for the female sex.

To quote from a leaflet we distribute:—"It is a woman's fundamental right to decide for herself when and if she will bear children, to have control over her own body. This right is presently denied by the laws prohibiting abortion, by the laws prohibiting those under 16 from obtaining contraceptives, by the lack of free, easily available contraception and sterilisation, and by the backward altitude of our educational institutions towards realistic sex education. All women suffer to some extent in this situation, but those with means suffer less than poorer women. The right to be free from the fear of unwanted pregnancy and childbirth must become a reality for all women."