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

Members of Parliament,

NZ Parliament,

Wellington

Dear Members,

Re: Petition Opposing the Issuing of a Licence to

The Family Planning Association to Carry out Abortions at its Hamilton Clinic.

Continue reading Whistle RU 486 Petition Letter to NZ MP’s

9th December, 2009

RU486 PETITION

Opposing the granting of a licence to Family Planning to

Perform medical abortions.

8,792 signatures!

From across the nation – Kaitaia to Invercargill.

Continue reading Whistle Update on RU 486 Petition

Unstringing the Violinist
Judith Jarvis Thompson’s "Violinist" argument is one of the most compelling ever offered in favour of abortion on demand, but it’s deeply flawed. Here’s where it goes wrong

Augustine on Evil
Is God the author of evil or its helpless victim? St. Augustine’s answer has been the most intellectually credible and emotionally satisfying solution to this vexing problem.

Continue reading 2009 Top Articles on “Stand To Reason” Website

Letter to Abortion Supervisory Committee

30th November 2009

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter of 26 November 2009 and enclosures. It is noted that in the application from the New Zealand Family Planning Association [NZFPA] for an abortion licence for the Association’s Hamilton clinic it, states that;

“Family Planning proposes a system for EMA where women receive the medications [Mifepristone and Misoprostol] in the licenced premises, [Hamilton Family Planning Clinic] and then immediately go home or to alternative premises.”

It is noted that in the “Guidelines for the use of Mifepristine for Medical Abortion in New Zealand” that it is a requirement that women are required to wait in the licenced facility for some time after taking Mifepristine to receive appropriate medical care should the woman abort or develop a complication.

Continue reading Will Proposed Family Planning Protocols for RU 486 Abortions Endanger Women’s Health?

Right to Life is disappointed that Telecom New Zealand has been supporting a culture of death by making annual grants to the New Zealand Family Planning Association of $50,000 for 2006 and 2007.

Right to Life is totally opposed to grants being made to this controversial Association. We know that the Family Planning Association is strongly pro-abortion. The Association is the major abortion referral agency in New Zealand; it believes that we need abortion as a back up for so called failed contraceptives. It supports girls under the age of 16 being able to have an abortion without the knowledge or consent of parents and has an employment policy to employ only doctors who believe that abortion is for a woman to choose in consultation with a doctor of her choice. This is abortion on demand which is unlawful in New Zealand. Justice Miller in the High Court Judicial Review of the performance of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, stated in his judgment in June 2008, that abortion on demand was unlawful and that “there is reason to doubt the lawfulness of many abortions authorised by certifying consultants.” Many doctors employed by Family Planning are certifying consultants.

Continue reading Right to Life Seeks Boycott of Telecom New Zealand in Response to Telecom support of Killing of Unborn Children

Right to Life fully supports the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women and girls is an international problem of pandemic proportions. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime and it as always unacceptable.

The Police in New Zealand receive 70,000 family violence calls each year. There are 3,500 convictions against men for violence inflicted on women. Each year there are 14 women who are killed by their partner or ex partner. Violence against women takes many forms. It is disappointing that our community is in denial and refuses to recognise that abortion is violence against vulnerable women and their unborn child.

Continue reading International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Dear Mr Ryall

Re: Abortion Funding – Family Planning Association

Thank you for your letter of 2 November 2009. You advise that;

“Public funding for the termination of pregnancies is provided through district health boards and that you cannot guarantee that a district health board will not choose to contract with a Family Planning Association Clinic to provide these services should the Association be granted a licence.”

Continue reading Right to Life Questions Minister on Government Funding of Family Planning Abortion Clinics

The screening of unborn babies for Down syndrome with a new national screening programme is further manifestation of a culture of death. It is a search and destroy programme that has as its sole objective the termination of the lives of unborn children.

Human life begins at conception and at that point the newly conceived life is endowed by its Creator with inalienable human rights, the foundation right is a right to life. Our human rights are both inalienable and universal. The termination of the life of the unborn child is a violation of the human rights of the unborn child. A child does not forfeit its right to life because it has Down syndrome. An abortion is the ultimate discrimination against those with a disability.

Continue reading Search and Destroy – Eliminating Down Syndrome Children

Dear Sir

Re: Annual Grant to the New Zealand Family Planning Association.

Right to Life commends your Corporation’s objective of providing annual grants to organisations in our community that promote the common good. I wish to draw to your attention the deep concern that our members and supporters have at the provision of a grant of $50,000 by your Corporation to the New Zealand Family Planning Association for 2006 and 2007.

Right to Life is totally opposed to grants being made to this Association. We know that the Family Planning Association is strongly pro-abortion.

Continue reading Telecom Supports Abortion of Unborn Children: Letter to Telecom CEO re Annual Grant to NZ Family Planning

The Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand, 2nd November, continues its propaganda in support of the Family Planning Association’s [NZFPA] application to kill unborn children at its Hamilton clinic.

It is always wrong to kill the innocent. ALRANZ promotes a culture of death under the guise of offering women “a service.” This is an insidious falsehood; it is no service to offer vulnerable women faced with an unplanned pregnancy an offer to kill their baby.

Continue reading Family Planning– Choice for the Killing of Unborn Children

Media Release
5 November 2009

Right to Life is hosting a protest march against the Family Planning Association’s move to turn their Hamilton branch into an abortion clinic.

This comes following the Family Planning Association’s (FPA) application to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for a license to commit abortions against unborn children up to 9wks. The FPA has previously stated that it wishes to use the abortion drug RU486 at its 30 centres throughout the country, which would mean the creation of an additional 30 abortion clinics throughout New Zealand.

“New Zealand already has an unacceptably high abortion rate,” says Right to Life president Peter Coleman. “The FPA wants to turn their 30 centres into abortion clinics, this can only lead to an increase in the number of abortions.”

“Look at Professor David Fergusson’s research that came out from Otago University yesterday, showing what we’ve been saying for years. Women are not being told of the dangerous side effects that they may suffer from following an abortion,” he says.

The research showed that having an abortion increases the mother’s risk of mental health damage by 80%. A similar study taken in Canada in September this year showed that having an abortion increased the chance of premature birth in subsequent pregnancies by 36%.

The march will start in Cathedral Square at 1pm on Friday 6 November with protesters walking to the Christchurch Family Planning centre.