Hon Tony Ryall, Minister of Health, Parliament Building, Wellington. Dear Mr Ryall 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 [...]

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 [...]

Dear (Letter sent to all NZ MP’s) Re: Proposed Bill to Decriminalize Abortion. 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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Executive Director, New Zealand Press Council, PO Box 10 879, The Terrace, Wellington. Dear Ms Major Re: Complaint Against The Press 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 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. [...]

Hon Steve Chadwick Parliament Building, Wellington. Dear Ms Chadwick, 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 [...]

The Secretary, Abortion Supervisory Committee, Private Bag 32001, Panama Street, Wellington 6011. Dear Sir 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Editor, Southland Times. Dear Sir Abortion Statistics 2010 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 [...]

18 June 2010 The Editor, The Press, Private Bag 4722, Christchurch. Dear Mr Holden Re: Complaint against Article 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 [...]

Abortion Statistics 2009 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  “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 [...]

27 May 2010 Mr Harry Mikaere, Waikato District Health Board, PO Box 934, Hamilton 3240. Dear Mr Mikaere 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 [...]

This year is the 50 anniversary of the invention of the controversial contraceptive pill. It was developed by Professor Carl Djerassi of Vienna, Austria, in 1960. It was promoted as providing for the liberation of women and today is the most widely used form of birth control. It is used by 100 million women worldwide. [...]

     I fully support the right of the Abortion Law Reform Association [ALRANZ]to express its views on abortion. It should be known however that this Association does not truly represent the views of women in New Zealand and has according to Dr Margaret Sparrow, the national president, a membership of about 200 members. It thus [...]

Right to Life is concerned that the Ministry of Health appear to be promoting the killing of unborn children with Downs Syndrome. A new advertisement in a popular New Zealand Women’s magazine, taken out as part of the National Screening Unit seems to be promoting their destruction. The ad states “Don’t wait until you are [...]

The University of Auckland pro-life group, Prolife Auckland, today announced their successful affiliation at the University of Auckland. The announcement comes on the heels of the group’s recent overturning of a policy discriminating against pro-life groups at the university. Since 2002, anyone wanting to start a pro-life club on campus has had only one opportunity [...]