Wellington, Nov 4 NZPA - Pro-choice and anti-abortion groups are taking different slants on the results of a New Zealand into abortion and mental health.

The study, led by Otago University's Professor David Fergusson, has been reported in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

The National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ) congratulates the seventy-two New Zealanders who have recently accepted knighthoods, in particular the NCWNZ National Life Members Dame Alison Roxburgh, Dame Jocelyn Fish, and Dame Grace Hollander.