stem cell research Right to Life New Zealand is opposed to the recommendation made to the Minister of Health, by the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology, [ACART] that permission be granted for the use of human embryos for embryonic stem cell research in New Zealand.

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WhistleNew Zealand has launched it’s new website, (Click here to visit the site), with the aim of signing up people who are willing to intercede to bring an end to abortion. Their target is to get intercessors in 100 New Zealand towns. With this aim the website provides a means for people to regsister their interest and to be informed about this initiative. The site provides a map showing towns and as people sign up a red heart will be shown next to the town’s name. Read more

Professor Donald Evans, director of Otago University’s Bioethics Centre, said yesterday that allowing social grounds for the sex selection of embryos during fertility treatment would be “winding the social clock back in New Zealand by at least a generation and a half”.

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Garth George comments on Abortion in his Friday 20th June editorial in the New Zealand Herald.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10517095&pnum=2

Right to Life in defence of life, is opposed to the recommendation of the Bioethics Council that parents have a right to choose the sex of their children. Sex selection through IVF and Pre Implantation Diagnosis is immoral and unethical. It is a further step towards designer babies, it is eugenics and constitutes a search and destroy mission.

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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