Abortions Authorised on Mental Health Grounds a Farce – Dr Margaret Sparrow
The Abortion Law Reform Association, [ALRANZ] on 16 June issued a media release in response to the release by Statistics New Zealand of the abortion statistics for 2008. Dr Margaret Sparrow, President of ALRANZ stated:
“We would like to see the abortion law reflecting what happens. We totally agree with the anti-abortion groups who say that it is ridiculous that 98 per cent of abortions in New Zealand are done on mental health grounds, because that is patently a farce.”
Dr Sparrow was for many years the Director of the Parkview Abortion facility in Wellington and during this time terminated the lives of thousands of unborn children..
her statement must be taken very seriously. Dr Sparrow is stating clearly that certifying consultants are using mental health grounds to authorise abortions to provide abortion on demand, abortion on demand is unlawful. The Crimes Act requires that doctors must have good faith in their belief that the continued life of the unborn child represents a serious threat to the mental health of the woman. The failure of doctors to have good faith renders the abortion unlawful. Dr Sparrow’s statement indicates that many unborn children are being deprived of their lives unlawfully. This is a serious injustice and a violation of the right to life of unborn children. It also undermines the rule of law.
The government has a grave responsibility to protect the lives of its future citizens who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family.
Abortion, the violent dismemberment of a child in the womb is the ultimate in child abuse. New Zealand has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the world. The government is sadly opposed to the national referendum on smacking, holding that it is a criminal offence to allow a light smack on a child as part of good parenting. The message the government is giving is that it is acceptable to kill a child in the womb but unlawful to smack the child after it is born. The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards challenges the Prime Minister, John Key to tell the community what action his government is going to take to stop the unlawful violence and child abuse imposed on our unborn children in our public hospitals, sanctioned by his government and funded by the taxpayer?
David Lane
Secretary,
Society for the Promotion of Community Standards.
Phone 04 9701067
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Good on SPCS for picking up on this.
Most New Zealanders are lucky in that they really have very little idea of the unimaginable abuse and neglect so many children face every day in this country.
Through my work, I have seen a glimpse of this. I can tell you that sadly, to state that “Abortion…is the ultimate in child abuse” is very far off the mark. In fact it strikes me as a rank and uninformed assumption.
I put it to you to consider which is the crueler act – aborting an unplanned pregnancy, or knowingly bringing an unwanted child into a family that offers it a childhood filled with violence, abuse, neglect and dysfunction?
Dr Margaret Sparrow needs prayer and God grace. How can anyone stop a beating heart and try and justify their actions. These self righteous killers need to repent before they face the judgment seat of Christ.
Daniel,
While we agree with the first two sentences of your comment we do not agree with the third. As a Christian is one not commanded by Christ not to judge least oneself be judged. Woman who have abortions are not to be judged but to be prayed for. Those who undertake abortions should be the focus of our special prayers, as you earlier stated.
How is it that Margaret Sparrow is knighted for her involement in terminating thousands of unborn babies?!
Just one question Rose,
Consider your own life. If your own life had turned out to be not as great as you had hoped. Would you now in hindsight (if it were possible) choose to have been aborted?
Right to Life NZ