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 [...]

Dear NZ Right to Life, Each year at the annual March for Life in Washington, DC the International Down Syndrome Coalition for Life joins the march and members carry large laminated photos of our precious kids.  I received the photo below from the IDSC to let me know that Chloe participated in this year’s March [...]

To the people of New Zealand. We ask you to write urgently to the Minister of Health, Hon Tony Ryall requesting that he decline the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology [ACART] to allow for embryonic stem cell research to be conducted on so- called “spare” human embryos stored in IVF clinics [...]

Introduction 1. Beliefs and values, and cultural and religious practices are central to the lives of doctors and patients. All doctors have personal beliefs that affect their day-to-day practice. Some doctors’ personal beliefs may give rise to concerns about carrying out or recommending particular procedures for patients. Patients’ personal beliefs may be fundamental to their [...]

The Editor, Investigate Magazine. Dear Ian The Right to Debate In response to Judith Hill, February edition. Your correspondent propounds a hedonistic, secular and utilitarian quality of life ethic which proposes that only the fit have a right to life. This ethic is opposed to the sanctity of life ethic which respects the right to [...]

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 [...]

The Pro-Life Talking Points series is meant to provide pro-life activists with clear and concise information with which to argue against common misinformation they will encounter while debating life issues. This is a Human Life International initiative and  following the link will take you to a page on the HLI web site which consists of [...]

The letter posted below is posted as a ‘template’ and we encourage persons concerned about misuse of embryonic stem cell research to use it or modify it when writing to the Minister of Health Tony Ryall and also to their local MP concerning this issue. The writing of letters to express concern is regarded as [...]

The ever increasing speed of the West’s moral plummet is evident now that President Obama is dismantling protection for embryonic humans in the United States. However while this may be disturbing, another horrendous proposal is raising it’s head across the ditch in ‘enlightened’ Europe. The Daily Mail reports that UK researchers are trying to produce [...]

The Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology, [ACART] has recommended that Ministerial authority be given for the use of human embryos for scientific research. Right to Life New Zealand in the defence of life is totally opposed to the recommendation as being immoral and a violation of human rights. It is also an appalling exploitation [...]

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.

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 [...]

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”. Here is the link

Garth George comments on Abortion in his Friday 20th June editorial in the New Zealand Herald. Here is the link to the editorial 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 [...]

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