[5] She is a Director of Istar Ltd, a not-for-profit company that imports the abortion pill mifepristone from France.

It was devised at a time when only surgical options were there, people didn’t even dream of having a medical abortion pill you could take.

It’s just ticking boxes, and just putting people into categories, and just pretending that… having an abortion will be for the sake of your mental health.

[7]In the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sparrow was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to medicine and the community,[8] and in 1993 she was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.

[11] Sparrow was a keen collector of contraceptive devices, which were later donated to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.