The Right to Life Charitable Trust of the UK has produced a number of well produced educational resources for School Students on a number of life issues including Human Life, Abortion, Euthanasia. Media bias is explored in these resources, especially useful are insights into how statistics may be misused by liberal media sources.
Re: Official Information Act Request – Embryonic Stem Cell Research
I wish to request under the Official Information Act a copy of the recommendations if any from the Ministry of Health to you on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology [ACART] to allow for the experimentation on spare embryos stored in IVF clinics in New Zealand.
A study was made in 2009 into the delays experienced by women seeking an abortion. The study was conducted at 9 abortion facilities and included 2150 women. The study was conducted by Dr Martha Silva and two associates from the University of Auckland. The study found that the average delay from the time of referral at the clinic to the abortion was 25 days. The Abortion Supervisory Committee recommended that the delay should not exceed 2 weeks. Studies done overseas had revealed that women who have made a decision to terminate the life of their child suffer stress, anxiety and a diminished quality of life if they are required to wait for an abortion. The study promotes a culture of death. It is appalling that Dr Silva wants to have a debate about the best time to kill the child.
Dr Silva states that “abortion is a safe procedure and should be carried out at the earliest gestation possible” Abortion is promoted by abortion providers as a safe procedure and of benefit to women. They say every effort must be made to ensure that women have access to safe and speedy abortion services. Right to Life challenges this assumption. Human life begins at conception and the human embryo should be accorded the respect that is due to the human person. At 10 weeks the child in the womb has a beating heart with its organs – brain, liver, kidneys and stomach functioning, it is recognisably human , with a head, face, body and tiny arms, legs, fingers and toes.
I wish to express concern at the proposal of the Hon Steve Chadwick to sponsor a private members Bill to seek the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. It is her intention to seek cross party support. We believe that the proposed Bill is not in the best interest of women, their unborn children or of society. Our reasons for our opposition to the proposed Bill are as follows.
What does ‘Decriminalisation of Abortion Mean’? It is the removal of all reference to abortion from the New Zealand Criminal Code, allowing abortion to be performed on any unborn child for "any" or "no" reason up until 24 weeks. It would no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child. We believe that effectively we would have abortion on demand up until the child is born. In this situation there would be no legal safeguards in place to protect the lives of the unborn child or the pregnant mother. Decriminalisation would be contrary to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion, 1977.
John and Janine Grant of Auckland have started a group which provides practical help and support to women who are pregnant and looking at their options. Their group is called 0800UCHOOSE which is obviously their phone number.
0800UCHOOSE are a Christian couple who offer support and love to help women thinking about abortion or adoption. They have a very strong passion for families, especially young women struggling with doubt, worry and impending motherhood. Whether this is in the form of hands on care of mother and/or baby or in other ways. They are raising 8 children of their own ranging from 4 up to 21 years, three of whom no longer live at home and one who has become part of the family.
On their website they say “You might say this site is pro-life & yes we are for life, your life. I’ve sat with girls as they have cried after they’ve had an abortion and heard their pain. We’d like to spare you that pain if we can. If with our help you can get to the end of your pregnancy then you’ll be able to make a decision you can live with.” For their Contact details read on
A specialist who has worked with geriatric patients for two decades, has said he has never seen any doctor perform euthanasia.
On Tuesday night’s Close Up programme Dr John Pollock, who is terminally ill, claimed many doctors are already practising euthanasia.
"It’s called pain control or anxiety control, but the reality is many of the doctors who do this are deliberately shortening the lifespan of the patient, quite rightly," claimed Pollock.
But on Breakfast today, Professor Martin Connolly from North Shore Hospital’s geriatric unit, said he has never known of it.
"Clearly there has to be a distinction made between active euthanasia – that is, bringing a patient’s life to an end on purpose… and a person deciding not to have active treatment because they believe that treatment would be futile. But that is not the same as active euthanasia," Connolly told Pippa Wetzell
This article is from a post by Dr Jennifer Roback Morse on her website at www.ruthinstitute.org
The 50th anniversary of the birth control pill — the Food and Drug Administration gave it final approval in 1960 — has been the occasion of much media fanfare, societal reflection — and what we might call Secular Triumphalism. We, the Enlightened, knew all along that giving women control over their fertility was going to be simply marvelous. End of story. Some of us have tried to point out that the pill had some negative consequences, but few seem interested.
The reason for the disconnect is that the ideology surrounding the pill is more significant than the pill itself.
Behind the apparently benign goal of giving people more choices lies a deeper goal: re-creating society. And since this new society is neither appealing nor natural, its advocates are not so eager to call attention to it.
The following article is from the Tuesday 20th July Edition of the Dominion Post.
OPINION: It went unnoticed by the media, but Justice Minister Simon Power recently issued a press statement announcing that Rosemary Fenwicke had decided not to seek reappointment to the Abortion Supervisory Committee.
There’s a story behind this. Dr Fenwicke, a member of the three-person committee since 2007, is an abortion certifying consultant who earns fees by approving the termination of pregnancies.
May 2005 RTL filed a mandamus in the High Court in Wellington against the ASC for its alleged failure to fulfil its statutory duties. These claims included the failure of the ASC to ensure that the human rights of unborn children received the full protection of the law, the failure to hold certifying consultants accountable for the lawfulness of the abortions they authorised and the failure to stop abortion on demand.
20 June 2005 The ASC applied for orders striking out the proceedings against the ASC. The ASC described the action as vexatious and an abuse of the Court’s process.
8 September 2005 In the High Court in Wellington Mr Justice Wild heard the case between RTL and the three members of the ASC, Dr Lesley Rothwell, Dr Papaarangi Reid and Mrs Marlene Lamb (the latter had resigned from the committee in March 2005, leaving a vacancy.). Counsel from the Crown Law Office, are representing the ASC. RTL named the Attorney-General as second defendant. The judge decided that some of RTL’s claims should be struck out but that others, if rewritten, could proceed. The Attorney-General was named by RTL as a defendant, Justice Wild struck his name out of the action.
If you do only one thing today to help save babies from the new Obama-U.N. abortion attack, make sure you sign the Petition!
Although this Act relates to the United States of America, it has global implications including international sex education for young children and paying for abortions world wide. At Right to Life NZ we therefore think it is relevant and important to oppose this act. For more read on below.
On behalf of Right to Life New Zealand Inc, I wish to lodge a complaint against an article that was published in the Press on page A5 on 18 June 2010. The article had the title, “Decline in abortion rates”.
Our complaint is submitted in our belief that the article breached Principle 1 of the New Zealand Press Council in respect to fairness and balance. Enclosed is a copy of the article and the relevant correspondence.
The article which reports on the abortion statistics released by Statistics NZ on 17 June 2010 includes comments sought from Dr Pippa MacKay and Dame Margaret Sparrow. Our Society has no objection to comment being sought from these two doctors who have considerable experience in terminating the lives of unborn children. We defend their right in a democratic society to be heard.
The Minister of Justice has announced that Dr Rosemary Fenwicke is not seeking reappointment to the Abortion Supervisory Committee. She was appointed to the Committee for a term of three years by the Governor General on the recommendation of Parliament made on the 14 June 2007. Her nomination by the previous government was highly controversial.
Right to Life welcomes this news. Our Society together with other pro-life organisations have previously made submissions to the Minister of Justice expressing concern and opposition to Dr Fenwicke’s appointment on the grounds that her appointment constituted a substantial conflict of interest. Dr Fenwicke is a certifying consultant appointed to authorise abortions. She is also an abortionist employed at the Level J abortion facility at the Wellington Hospital. How could she be expected to supervise the abortion industry when she was a prominent member of that industry?
I wish to express concern at your proposal to sponsor a private members Bill to seek the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. Our Society recognizes that you are motivated by a desire to act in the best interest of women, an objective that we share with you. We believe that the proposed Bill is not in the best interest of women, their unborn children or of society. Our reasons for our opposition to the proposed Bill are as follows.
DECRIMINALISING ABORTION VS HUMAN LIFE
What does ‘Decriminalisation of Abortion mean’?
It is the removal of all reference to abortion from the New Zealand Criminal Code, allowing abortion to be performed on any unborn child for “any” or “no” reason up until 24 weeks. We believe that effectively we would have abortion on demand up until the child is born. In this situation there would be no legal safeguards in place to protect the lives of the unborn child or the pregnant mother.
I wish to draw your attention to a new study coming from researchers in Sri Lanka that finds women who had abortions have more than triple their breast cancer risk compared with women who carry their pregnancy to term. The study was published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology and found a 3.42 odds ratio against women having abortions compared with those who kept their baby. The new study article is titled, "Prolonged breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in Sri Lankan women: A case-control study."
The recent proposal to introduce a Private Members Bill to allow abortion on demand in New Zealand, by List Labour MP Steven Chadwick, has resulted in significant debate. A recent post by David Farrar on his www.kiwiblog.co.nz site entitled “Abortion on Demand” which commented on this proposal has generated over 400 comments.
How is it that at this time when there is increasing evidence of the physical, psychological and spiritual damage inflicted on women by abortion, that anyone would contemplate the decriminalization of abortion?
Right to Life New Zealand is totally opposed to the proposal of the Hon Steve Chadwick MP to introduce a private members Bill to decriminalize abortion in New Zealand.
· If the Bill were passed, it would no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child.
· The Bill denies that the unborn child is a human being endowed with human rights.
· The proposed Bill effectively provides for abortion on demand up to birth.
· The Bill is an assault on human rights, the dignity of women and an assault on the conscience of the nation.
· Parliament has a solemn duty to protect the human rights of the weak and vulnerable in society. It would be an appalling injustice for Parliament to withdraw legal protection for the right to life of unborn children the weakest and most vulnerable member of the human family.
The following article by Garth George appeared in the NZ Herald on Thursday 1st July 2010
Garth George writes that we can ban tobacco and demonise alcohol, yet abortion is greenlighted without debate.
While the compulsive-obsessive nico-nazis celebrate depriving our jailbirds of their perfectly legal tobacco, a gullible Minister of Corrections, Judith Collins, makes what will turn out to be an unsupportable rod for her own back. Meanwhile, a group of our so-called high-powered citizens get together to push for tougher laws on another perfectly legal product, booze.
Smoking contributes to the deaths of a few thousand people a year; excessive alcohol consumption to a few thousand more.
But what about the more than 17,500 potential New Zealanders who were vacuumed into oblivion in abortion clinics round the country in the 2009 calendar year, most of them illegally under the provisions of the law supposedly administered by the Abortion Supervisory Committee? Continue reading Murder of Innocents Behind Closed Doors
Re 18 June, Jackie Edmund, chief executive of Family Planning claims that to reduce our unacceptably high abortion rate we need more comprehensive sex education in schools. This statement is false and is challenged, our children do not need information on how to use condoms and contraceptives. Our children need encouragement to be chaste, safe and happy. Why does Family Planning continue to impose its plans for our families on society against the wishes of the majority of parents. Families have not forgotten that it is Family Planning that is opposed to girls under the age of 16 requiring to have parental consent or knowledge for an abortion or to obtain contraceptives.
It is Family Planning the major abortion referral agency in New Zealand, that is prepared to take young school girls to have an abortion without the knowledge of the parents. Family Planning portrays itself as the friend of families it is indeed the greatest threat to the family in our time.
Our complaint is submitted in our belief that the article breached Principle 1 of the New Zealand Press Council in respect to fairness and balance.
The article which reports on the abortion statistics released by Statistics NZ on 17 June 2010, includes comment sought from Dr Pippa MacKay and Dame Margaret Sparrow. Our Society has no objection to comment being sought from these two doctors who have considerable experience in terminating the lives of unborn children. We defend their right in a democratic society to be heard.
There were 17,550 abortions reported in New Zealand 2009. The statistics were released today by Statistics New Zealand. Right to Life New Zealand is pleased with the reduction of 390 abortions on the 17,940 abortions performed in New Zealand in 2008 which continues the downward trend over the previous two years. This is good news for our unborn children and their mothers. We believe the decrease is due to the increasing recognition in the community that abortion not only destroys an innocent and defenceless unborn child but is also harmful to the physical and mental health of women.
United Families International have recently posted the article below on their website
Teenage delinquents were killing their neighbours. A few years ago, the TV news program "60 Minutes" first reported on this story. But they weren’t talking about humans; they were talking about elephants. It seems this story actually began about 20 years earlier in South Africa when an overabundance of elephants in a preserve forced ecologists to relocate elephants. It was difficult to relocate adult elephants, so most of the male elephants were killed and the young elephants and some of their mothers were relocated to another preserve.
Years later those fatherless and orphaned elephants developed into troubled teen-agers; teenagers that began harassing and killing other animals in the wildlife preserve – namely the scarce and prized white rhinos. In addition to killing rhinos, the juvenile elephants acted aggressively toward tourist vehicles. Eventually researchers had to kill five of the elephants because there is no reform school for animals. Or is there? Read on following this link to United Families Website
Right to Life calls upon the Minister of Justice to withdraw the name of Dr Rosemary Fenwicke from re appointment to the Abortion Supervisory Committee on the grounds that she represents a serious and substantial conflict of interest.
The Committee is made up of three persons, Professor Dame Linda Holloway, chair, Dr Rosemary Fenwicke and Rev Patricia Allan. Two of the Committee are required to be registered medical practitioners. The members are appointed by the Governor General on the recommendation of Parliament. The term of their appointment is for three years and they may be reappointed by Parliament. The current members of the Committee were appointed on 14 June 2007. Their term will expire on 14 June 2010. They were nominated by the pro abortion Helen Clarke Labour government who withdrew the conscience vote of members of the government to ensure that her nominations were appointed. It is expected that the members appointed passed the litmus test of being supportive of abortion. The Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act, s 10 requires that the Minister of Justice bring a motion to the House for appointment to the Committee.
LifeSiteNews this week reported the following post.
What would the world have been like without Andrea Bocelli, Italian pop, opera, and classical singer? With millions of infants having been victim to abortion, the blind international music sensation has revealed that he too could have been one more abortion statistic. The “I am Whole Life” project has produced a YouTube video with Bocelli, playing the piano, recounting the story of a young woman who had been hospitalized and treated for a “simple attack of appendicitis.” As Bocelli recounts, doctors had suggested to his mother that she “abort the child” because the child would be born with a disability.
“But the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born,” recounted Bocelli. “That woman was my mother, and I was the child.” Read more from the LifeSiteNews.com website
Pro Life Campaign (PLC) a non-denominational lobby group has set up a new petition which is being circulated worldwide calling on the Leaders of China and India to halt the established practice of the selective killing of baby girls by abortion, infanticide and fatal neglect. The petition can be signed by clicking on this link
Why sign the petition?
100 million baby girls are missing – and the number is rising. They were aborted or killed at birth. Why? Because of a preference for baby boys. It is a human rights violation on a massive scale perhaps the most widespread form of violent anti-female discrimination in the world today. For more information (direct from the PLC Website’s Petition page see below)
“Abortion never saves a mother’s life – it just kills a baby,” says a newspaper advertisement that will appear in all of Ireland’s major papers starting today.
The Irish pro-life group Youth Defence said that the ads, which they have sponsored together with the Life Institute, are to counter implications by abortionist groups that there is no moral difference between treatment for an ectopic pregnancy and direct abortion. The ad quotes “Rene” who describes the loss of her unborn child, who implanted in her fallopian tube instead of her uterus, as “heartbreaking.” “Now I hear pro-abortion campaigners claiming that treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is abortion," she continues. "That’s absolutely untrue – and it’s so wrong to scare women by claiming that necessary medical treatments are abortions. I didn’t want my baby to die. And it hurts to see his death used to push for abortion.”
Re: Licence to Kill Unborn Children – Family Planning
I am writing to you and your colleagues on the Waikato District Health Board to express our Society’s concern at your Board’s support for the Family Planning Association obtaining an abortion licence for its Hamilton clinic. We believe that should the Association obtain a licence to kill unborn children at its Hamilton clinic it will be a threat to the health and welfare of vulnerable women and to the lives of their unborn children. It is the objective of the Association to ultimately obtain an abortion licence for each of its 30 clinics. The Association claims that it is providing choice for women.
Hon Tony Ryall,
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