29 Jun 2022

US abortion decision continues to make political waves in NZ

From Morning Report, 7:45 am on 29 June 2022

The overturning of Roe V Wade in the US continues to make political waves here in New Zealand. National MP and social conservative Simon O'Connor has served up a mea culpa to his caucus colleagues for a post over the weekend he now admits caused distress. He took it down, but the post has stirred up more questions about what could happen under a National government, when they'd rather be talking about the government and it's failure to rein in inflation. Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.