Sunday, 17 January 2021, 2:00 pm A nationwide poll has found majority support for the government to continue to closely monitor abortions in New Zealand and the reasons for it, despite the Ministry of Health recently suggesting that there is not a use for collecting much of this information. In the poll of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed last month by Curia Market Research, respondents were asked “Should the Government continue to require data to be kept on the number of abortions and reasons for it, such as mental and physical health, rape etc and to monitor incidents of coercion, sex-selection, and whether there has been counselling