Secondly, I think there is no place for a Parliament to be specifying and legislating what the appropriate medical treatment is in any given case. We are not medical professionals; we are lawmakers, and we have to respect that. I trust women and doctors to make these decisions carefully, gravely, and appropriately. It's time for New Zealand to go from being one of the most restrictive and outdated in the way our legislation is framed around abortion to move to having a sensible and balanced framework that doesn't make women feel like they've got to create a fiction of being mentally unbalanced to access the care and the treatment that they want. 