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However the advocacy groups Family Planning Association and Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand questioned the accuracy of the purported evidential basis for " informed consent " from the " pro-life " perspective.

Copeland argued against the appointment of a member to the Abortion Supervisory Committee on the grounds of a conflict of interest: the member concerned acted as a certifying consultant for abortions and at the same time performed abortions as an operating surgeon.

Instead, he attempted to have a pro-life Pacific Island female doctor appointed to the Committee, but failed, 81 votes to 36.