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.

A new study on abortion and mental health contains good news for supporters of safe and accessible abortion, but some of its conclusions overreach the data, the president of the Abortion Law Reform Association, Dame Margaret Sparrow, said today.

Wellington, Nov 3 NZPA - New Zealand researchers who examined the medical history of more than 500 women have concluded abortion "leads to significant distress in some".