Feb

12

The First Ache Fetal Pain

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Click this link to visit a New York Times article on new research on how unborn children experience pain in the womb

Feb

7

What Care Is Being Given To Children Born Alive

Filed Under Abortion | 2 Comments

Right to Life is concerned that 68 unborn babies with a gestational age of 20 weeks or more were terminated in 2006. The oldest reported child was 32 wbaby-holding-finger.jpgeeks gestation.

The information was recently provided by the Abortion Supervisory Committee to Right to Life under the Official Information Act.

A total of 44 of these children had a gestational age of 22 weeks or more. Many of these children if born alive could with proper medical care have survived. The Ministry of Health does not keep records of babies born alive from an abortion. A recent United Kingdom [UK] report has shown that babies who survive abortion attempts in the UK are often left to die. According to a government report there were 66 infants in one year that survived a National Health Service abortion. In Britain the report shows that once a child is condemned to death by abortion is born alive, no medical help is offered the child. On the contrary guidelines from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists offered doctors the recommendation that babies over 22 weeks old who survive abortion be killed by lethal injection. Does the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians And Gynaecologists support this recommendation?

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Feb

5

Dr Death and Tragic Suicide

Filed Under Euthanasia | 1 Comment

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Dr Philip Nitschke should accept some responsibility for the tragic suicide of a Wellington woman. She was not terminally ill. Dr Nitschke encouraged the deeply depressed woman to travel to Mexico to purchase the deadly drug Nembutal. Nembutal is a class C prohibited drug. A person possessing this drug unlawfully could be charged and on conviction, receive a prison sentence of up to 3 months or a fine up to $500. It was possibly unlawful for Dr Nitschke to encourage this woman and others to break the law.  It is a violation of Section 63 of the Crimes Act to encourage, entice or assist any person to commit suicide. Why does the government not have the Police investigate Dr Nitschke with a view to having him brought before the Court? He is promoting a culture of death. The Australian government to protect the community, passed legislation to prohibit Dr Nitschke from displaying Exit International on an Australian internet provider because it was promoting suicide. Our government citing free speech shamefully allows him to use a New Zealand provider and conduct euthanasia workshops. Our Society calls upon the government to ban Dr Nitschke’s entry into New Zealand for the purpose of conducting euthanasia workshops.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.