Black Women Found to Account for 40% of US Abortions

By Carl Anderson
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, MARCH 1, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Having served for nearly a decade as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, I know that there are few subjects as controversial in American society as those issues touching race relations.
Nonetheless, an article appearing this weekend in the New York Times — titled "To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case" — is worth considering.  Without getting into the controversy concerning the well-documented eugenic philosophy of Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood), or the debate over whether or not African Americans are actually deliberately targeted by abortion providers today, several disturbing facts remain.
For one, as the New York Times pointed out, black women account for almost 40% of the abortions in the United States, though they make up only 13% of the population. Continue reading Abortion and Race: A Complicated Problem

Letter to ASC under Official Information Act

Dear Sir,

I wish to request under the Official Information Act copies of your Committee’s minutes subsequent to the 2 July 2009.

Your Committee is currently considering an application from the Family Planning Association for an abortion licence for its Hamilton clinic. Is the Association required to comply with the requirements of the Contraception sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, section 21. [1] [a],[b] and [c].

It is noted that the “Guidelines for the Use of Mifepristone for Medical Abortion in New Zealand”, specifically state in 6.3.4, that after the administration of Mifepristone the patient is required to be kept under medical/nursing observation for one hour to ensure there is no reaction to the drug and that it has been ingested…

It is further noted that 6.4.2.requires that after the administration of Misoprostol the patient is generally required to be kept under observation over the next 4 – 6 hours.

It would be appreciated if you would advise if Family Planning would be required to conform to these guidelines at its Hamilton clinic, should it be granted a licence.

Continue reading Right to Life Questions ASC on RU 486 Abortion Protocols

Dear NZ Right to Life,

Each year at the annual March for Life in Washington, DC the International Down Syndrome Coalition for Life joins the march and members carry large laminated photos of our precious kids.  I received the photo below from the IDSC to let me know that Chloe participated in this year’s March – the smallest voice can have the largest impact!  Please check out my site (Stop Aborting Down Syndrome Individuals Now)  http://sadsin.blogspot.com/

Blessings,

Kurt Kondrich

From the International Down syndrome Coalition for Life http://idscforlife.wordpress.com/

To the people of New Zealand. We ask you to write urgently to the Minister of Health, Hon Tony Ryall requesting that he decline the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology [ACART] to allow for embryonic stem cell research to be conducted on so- called “spare” human embryos stored in IVF clinics in New Zealand. Human embryos are members of the human family and are endowed by their Creator at conception with an inalienable right to life. The proposed research entails the destruction of these tiny human beings. It is estimated that there are an estimated 7,000 human embryos in storage in New Zealand. The recommendation was made to the Minister in 2008. Mr Ryall advised our Society in January 2010 that he had not yet made a decision on this important human rights issue. Research worldwide on human embryos has not produced any treatment that would benefit mankind, while research on ethically obtained stem cells from sources that do not entail the destruction of human life have produced many cures. In the event that the Minister approved the recommendation of ACART the next step would be to approve the creation of human embryos specifically for stem cell research. This is a further manifestation of a culture of death. Please speak up on behalf of those without a voice. The Ministers address is Parliament Building, Wellington, no stamp required.

Ken Orr

For Right to Life Executive

Introduction
1. Beliefs and values, and cultural and religious practices are central to the lives
of doctors and patients. All doctors have personal beliefs that affect their
day-to-day practice. Some doctors’ personal beliefs may give rise to concerns
about carrying out or recommending particular procedures for patients.
Patients’ personal beliefs may be fundamental to their sense of well-being
and could help them to cope with pain or other negative aspects of illness or
treatment. Personal beliefs may also lead patients to ask for procedures that
others may not feel are in their best clinical interests, or to refuse treatment.

Continue reading Medical Council of New Zealand “Draft” Beliefs and Medical Practice

 Media Release

Conscience or Tyranny

Right to Life applauds a group of courageous pro – life doctors challenging the Medical Council’s provisions relating to abortion included in its draft document titled, ” Beliefs and Medical Practice” The pro – life doctors have filed an application with the High Court in Wellington for a judicial review of the draft document.

The draft document requires a medical practitioner to inform a woman who is ambivalent about her pregnancy, “is offered access to objective information or assistance to enable her to make informed decisions on all available options for her pregnancy including termination.”

Continue reading Conscience or Tyranny

Right to Life supports the march to Parliament today 12 February, organised by Pro Life New Zealand to oppose Family Planning being granted a licence to kill unborn children. The Association proposes to provide medical abortions with the lethal murder pill, Mifegyne RU 486 for babies in their first nine weeks of life at its Hamilton clinic. It hopes to eventually obtain abortion licences for its other 29 clinics. This human pesticide RU 486 is lethal in causing the death of unborn children by starvation and is dangerous for women’s health, 13 women have died worldwide after using this drug.

Continue reading Right to Life Supports March on Parliament to Oppose Family Planning Obtaining Licence to Kill Unborn Children

On Friday 5th February  P.A.T.H.S (Post Abortion Trauma Healing Service) had a Remembrance Service for anybody effected by a pregnancy or baby loss. The Rangiora Baptist Church hosted this service. A flyer concerning this service is available by clicking here.

Nearly 50,000 5 year olds commenced their schooling in the first week of February, happy and laughing with the joy of living. Sadly there were 18,211 5 year olds missing. These are the children who were considered of little worth and whose lives were terminated by abortion in 2004. They are nameless and are recorded as a cold statistic in the Abortion Supervisory Committee’s annual report to Parliament in 2005.

Their absence is mourned for they were created with many talents to enrich our society. Our society is impoverished by their absence. We should also have deep sympathy for their mothers who will be mourning the loss of their children. Mothers who so often were coerced into in to an unwanted abortion because of the abandonment of the mother and child and because of pressure from family and friends.

Continue reading Where Have All the Children Gone?

The Editor,

Investigate Magazine.

Dear Ian

The Right to Debate

In response to Judith Hill, February edition. Your correspondent propounds a hedonistic, secular and utilitarian quality of life ethic which proposes that only the fit have a right to life. This ethic is opposed to the sanctity of life ethic which respects the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death..The society that she proposes would sadly be selfish, uncaring and unloving. The message that she is giving to those with Down syndrome is that you are not welcome in society, you have nothing to contribute and you are a burden on the taxpayer. Every child is a gift from God that comes into this world to love and be loved. There is a more serious disability than Down syndrome and that is to fail to love.

Continue reading Investigate Magazine Letter on Right to Debate

Letter to;

Hon Murray McCully,

Minister of External Affairs and Trade,

25th January 2010

Right to Life New Zealand Inc, is disappointed that the government’s 2009 Periodic Report to the United Nations made no reference to the human rights of New Zealand’s unborn children. Since the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 was passed by Parliament the Abortion Supervisory Committee has reported to Parliament that more than 371,000 unborn children have been killed by abortion.

Continue reading Re: New Zealand National Periodic Review Report on Human Rights – United Nations

Family Planning is conducting a campaign to have the condom accepted as a “Kiwi rubber essential.” “The focus of the campaign is designed to get New Zealanders talking about condoms and safer sex.”

It is commendable that Family Planning is seeking to reduce New Zealand’s high teenage pregnancy and STI rate. It is disappointing that the Association continues to promote as the solution a failed immoral campaign of “safer sex” with condoms which promotes promiscuity, fornication, more teenage pregnancies and STIs. Condoms encourage teenage males to become predators, mistaking lust for love.

Continue reading Condoms – the New Rubber Icon – Campaign from Hell

(NEW YORK – C-FAM)  A recent submission to the United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) provides evidence of the potentially fatal consequences of "safe" abortion promoted by UN agencies, and includes a list of 113 studies linking abortion dangerous complications such as pre-term birth in subsequent pregnancies.

  "The encouragement by [the UN Population Fund] UNFPA and [the World Health Organization] WHO of the use of mifepristone (RU-486, Mifegyne) and misoprostol (Cytotec) as ‘safe’ abortifacients in medically resource poor nations is unconscionable" the paper says, "and a violation of the human right to health of women."

Right to Life comments that this is the same drug that Family Planning hopes to use in its proposed Hamilton Clinic

  Read More  (offsite link to C-FAM)

Letter to  Secretary ASC

Dear Sir,

Your Committee reports in its report to Parliament that it consulted widely in drafting the above document and received submissions from 25 organisations and persons. It is noted with concern that there no organisations or members of the pro-life movement are listed as having made a submission on the document. It is assumed that none were invited to make a submission.

Right to Life is disappointed that our Society was not invited to make a submission on this important document. Our Society together with other pro-life organisations is deeply concerned about the care of women seeking an abortion in New Zealand. We believe that Family Life International, Post Abortion Trauma Healing Services and Voice for Life could have made a positive contribution and should have been invited by your Committee to make a submission to the draft document.

Continue reading ASC Fails to Consult Pro-Life Organisations Concerning the Document “Standards of Care for Women Seeking an Abortion in New Zealand”

Dear Mr Ryall,

Right to Life upholds the right to life of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome. Human life commences at conception, each human being is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation. At conception the human embryo is endowed by its creator with human rights, the foundation right being the right to life. These rights are inalienable and universal. A child does not forfeit its right to life because it is diagnosed with Down syndrome; tricemy 21.The killing of the unborn child with Down syndrome is the ultimate discrimination against the “disabled”.

It is understood that it is the normal procedure for clinicians in the public health sector when a pregnant woman is diagnosed as having an unborn child with Down syndrome, to offer the woman an abortion. Right to Life believes that this advice is both unethical and unlawful

Continue reading Letter to Minister of Health re: Lawfulness of the killing of Unborn Children diagnosed with Down Syndrome

The New Zealand Family Planning Association on 8 December issued a statement in defence of the use of the lethal drug, Mifegyne, RU 486 for the killing of unborn children in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy. The Association claims that medical abortions are safe. Mifegyne is a murder pill, it is highly effective and has a success rate of 98 per cent in starving to death unborn children. Medical abortions are unsafe for unborn children who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. It is always wrong to kill the innocent. Right to Life believes that Family Planning have a complete disregard for the human rights of unborn children and for the protection of their lives.

Continue reading Medical Abortion is Unsafe

The New Zealand Family Planning Association on 8 December issued a statement in defence of the use of the lethal drug, Mifegyne, RU 486 for the killing of unborn children in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy. The Association, an ardent advocate for a culture of death sought to refute recent press releases of Right to Life and other pro-life organisations.  Family Planning claims that medical abortions are safe. Mifegyne is a murder pill, it is highly effective and has a success rate of 98 per cent in starving to death unborn children. Medical abortions are unsafe for unborn children who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. It is always wrong to kill the innocent. Right to Life believes that Family Planning have a complete disregard for the human rights of unborn children and for the protection of their lives.

Continue reading Family Planning Fail to Justify Use of Murder Pill RU 486 for Killing Unborn Children

Dear Sir

Re: Official Information Act – Request

I wish to request under the Official Information Act the number of abortions reported to the Committee for the years 2007 and 2008 for unborn children who were diagnosed with Trisomy 21, Down syndrome, whose abortions were authorised in accordance with s 187 A [aa] or [a] of the Crimes Act 1961.

It is the intention of the government to introduce in 2010 a new screening programme for Down syndrome. The Ministry of Health advises that there are no recorded statistics for abortions authorised for Down syndrome. It is understood that in Britain that with the introduction of the new screening programme the number of Down syndrome children aborted has increased to 90 per cent. In the interest of women’s health, Right to Life requests that statistics of the abortions of Down syndrome children be included in your Committee’s annual report to Parliament.

Continue reading Request to ASC for Information on Number of and Gestational Age of Down Syndrome Children Abortions

Having sex at an early age can double the risk of developing cervical cancer, a study of 20,000 women suggests.

The investigation into why poorer women have a higher risk of the disease found they tended to have sex about four years earlier than more affluent women.

Previously, it had been thought the disparity was the result of low screening uptake in poorer areas.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer findings are published in the British Journal of Cancer.

Read more by visiting BBC site

Letter to CEO

Canterbury, Auckland, Capital Coast and Otago DHB’s

23 December 2009

Dear Sir

Re: Official Information Act – Request

I wish to request under the Official Information Act the following information;

The number of women who received a chemical abortion with Mifegyne, RU 486 at the Board’s Hospitals in each of the years 2007 and 2008.

How many of these women were treated for a complication resulting from the abortion prior to discharge?

Continue reading Right to Life Seeks Information Concerning Chemical RU 486 Abortions from Hospital Boards

Letter to CEO

Otago District Health Board

18 December 2009

Dear Sir

Re: Humanity of Unborn Child – Abortion, Informed Consent

Our Society submits that women considering an abortion should be informed that the,

“Abortion procedure will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”

Recently the State of South Dakota in the United States passed legislation that abortion providers had a legal obligation to provide this information in writing to women seeking an abortion.

Continue reading Humanity of Unborn Child – Abortion, Informed Consent

14 December 2009

Hon Tony Ryall,

Minister of Health,

Parliament Building,

Wellington.

Dear Mr Ryall

Down Syndrome, Search and Destroy – National Programme

Our Society wishes to express its concern and opposition to the new screening programme for Down syndrome. We view the screening of unborn babies for Down syndrome with a new national screening programme as a further manifestation of a culture of death. The screening is not for the benefit of the child, it is a search and destroy programme that has as its sole objective the termination of the lives of unborn children who have Down syndrome.

Continue reading Down Syndrome Search and Destroy National Programme

14 December 2009

Hon Tariana Turia,

Associate Minister of Health,

Parliament Building,

Wellington.

Re: Application by Family Planning Association – Abortion Licence

Thank you for your letter of 9 December, 2009. Our Society recognises that the statutory responsibility for the issuing of abortion licences rests with the Abortion Supervisory Committee.

Our Society has recently obtained under the Official Information Act a copy of the application from Family Planning to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for an abortion licence for their Hamilton clinic. The application reveals that it is their intention, should a licence be granted to require women who have taken the lethal drug Mifegyne RU486 and the prostaglandin Misoprostol to leave the clinic immediately after taking the drugs. This means that every woman who is undergoing a medical abortion will deliver the dead unborn child away from the clinic. We consider that this is detrimental to the health and welfare of women. A medical abortion is a severe traumatic experience for women who are responsible for disposing of the remains of their dead child. We believe that women undergoing a medical abortion should be treated with compassion and dignity.

Continue reading Letter to Minister of Health Questioning Safety of “Home” RU 486 Abortions

12 December 2009

Secretary,

Abortion Supervisory Committee,

Private Bag 32001,

Panama Street,

Wellington.

Dear Sir

Re: Abortion Supervisory Committee Report 2009

Our Society wishes to comment on several issues raised in your Committee’s Annual Report for 2009. The Report states that “Over the past year the ASC has become conscious that workforce issues will need to be addressed in coming years to ensure continuity of abortion services in future. The ASC is aware that there are very few operating doctors in New Zealand under the age of 50. The ASC will be signalling this issue to the Royal Australia New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of General Practitioners…”

Continue reading Right to Life Challenges ASC on NZ’s Ageing Abortion Doctors

11 December 2009

Media Release

Abortion Supervisory Committee Report 2008

The Abortion Supervisory Committee’s [ASC] report was tabled in Parliament on 8th December. The Committee reported 17,940 abortions in New Zealand 2008.

This is a reduction of 440 on the 2007 year figure of 18,380. While encouraging, Right to Life reminds New Zealanders that each life is unique and irreplaceable. Hopefully one reason for the decrease is the increasing recognition in the community that abortion not only destroys innocent defenceless unborn children, it also harms the physical and mental health of women and their families.

Right to Life is concerned about the unlawful abortions authorised in 2008.

Continue reading Right to Life on 2009 ASC Abortion Report