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 life of every [...]

Letter to;
Hon Murray McCully,
Minister of External Affairs and Trade,
25th January 2010
Right to Life New Zealand Inc, is disappointed that the government’s 2009 Periodic Report to the United Nations made no reference to the human rights of New Zealand’s unborn children. Since the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 was passed by Parliament the Abortion [...]

Letter to  Secretary ASC
Dear Sir,
Your Committee reports in its report to Parliament that it consulted widely in drafting the above document and received submissions from 25 organisations and persons. It is noted with concern that there no organisations or members of the pro-life movement are listed as having made a submission on the document. [...]

Dear Mr Ryall,
Right to Life upholds the right to life of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome. Human life commences at conception, each human being is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation. At conception the human embryo is endowed by its creator with human rights, the foundation right being the right to [...]

Dear Sir
Re: Official Information Act – Request

I wish to request under the Official Information Act the number of abortions reported to the Committee for the years 2007 and 2008 for unborn children who were diagnosed with Trisomy 21, Down syndrome, whose abortions were authorised in accordance with s 187 A [aa] or [a] of [...]

Letter to CEO
Canterbury, Auckland, Capital Coast and Otago DHB’s
23 December 2009
Dear Sir
Re: Official Information Act – Request

I wish to request under the Official Information Act the following information;
The number of women who received a chemical abortion with Mifegyne, RU 486 at the Board’s Hospitals in each of the years 2007 and 2008.
How many of [...]

Letter to CEO
Otago District Health Board
18 December 2009
Dear Sir
Re: Humanity of Unborn Child – Abortion, Informed Consent
Our Society submits that women considering an abortion should be informed that the,
“Abortion procedure will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”

Recently the State of South Dakota in the United States [...]

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 programme as a further manifestation of [...]

14 December 2009
Hon Tariana Turia,
Associate Minister of Health,
Parliament Building,
Wellington.
Re: Application by Family Planning Association – Abortion Licence

Thank you for your letter of 9 December, 2009. Our Society recognises that the statutory responsibility for the issuing of abortion licences rests with the Abortion Supervisory Committee.
Our Society has recently obtained under the Official Information Act [...]

12 December 2009
Secretary,
Abortion Supervisory Committee,
Private Bag 32001,
Panama Street,
Wellington.
Dear Sir
Re: Abortion Supervisory Committee Report 2009

Our Society wishes to comment on several issues raised in your Committee’s Annual Report for 2009. The Report states that “Over the past year the ASC has become conscious that workforce issues will need to be addressed in coming years to [...]

Members of Parliament,
NZ Parliament,
Wellington
Dear Members,
Re: Petition Opposing the Issuing of a Licence to
The Family Planning Association to Carry out Abortions at its Hamilton Clinic.

Letter to Abortion Supervisory Committee
30th November 2009
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your letter of 26 November 2009 and enclosures. It is noted that in the application from the New Zealand Family Planning Association [NZFPA] for an abortion licence for the Association’s Hamilton clinic it, states that;
“Family Planning proposes a system for EMA where women [...]

Dear Mr Ryall
Re: Abortion Funding – Family Planning Association

Thank you for your letter of 2 November 2009. You advise that;
“Public funding for the termination of pregnancies is provided through district health boards and that you cannot guarantee that a district health board will not choose to contract [...]

 
Dear Sir
Re: Annual Grant to the New Zealand Family Planning Association.

Right to Life commends your Corporation’s objective of providing annual grants to organisations in our community that promote the common good. I wish to draw to your attention the deep concern that our members and supporters have at the provision of a grant of [...]

Re article “Obama worthy winner” October 19.  This statement is challenged; Mother Theresa of Calcutta stated that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world was abortion. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday 9 October, but a closer analysis of the award shows his only achievement at the time [...]

Summary: Correct language is important to convey the true intent of the intended action. Throughout the document the word “termination” is used. This term is incorrect as it is not used in the abortion laws, the term used in legislation is abortion. The term “termination” or “termination of pregnancy” is used to disguise the [...]

Dear

The New Zealand Family Planning Association has applied to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for a licence to perform medical abortions at its Hamilton clinic. This information was recently obtained from the Committee under the Official Information Act. The Association in March announced that it was its intention to apply for an abortion licence for [...]

Dear Sir
Re: New Zealand Family Planning Association – Application for Abortion Licence – Official Information Act Request

Thank you for your letter of 25 September 2009. Our Society is opposed to the application from the New Zealand Family Planning Association for a licence to perform medical abortions at its Hamilton clinic. We have many members [...]

Dear Mr Ryall
Re; New Zealand Family Planning Association – Licence to Kill Unborn Children

Right to Life was recently advised under the Official Information Act by the Abortion Supervisory Committee [ASC] that an application had been received from the New Zealand Family Planning Association for a licence to perform abortions at its Hamilton clinic. On [...]

Letter to:
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College Of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Dear Sir,
Re: Decriminalisation of Abortion – Queensland
Right to Life New Zealand is disappointed that the Australian and New Zealand Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are at the forefront in seeking to have the killing of unborn children decriminalised in [...]

Dear Mr Power
Re: Abortion Supervisory Committee – Appointments

You would be aware that the current three members of the Abortion Supervisory Committee were appointed by the Governor General on the recommendation of Parliament on 14th June 2007. In accordance with the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, section 11 [1] their appointment is for a [...]

  Dear Mr McGee
Re: Official Information Act Complaint against the Abortion Supervisory Committee

I wish to lay a complaint against the Abortion Supervisory Committee for refusing to provide a copy of the Counselling Advisor’s report on the Epsom Day Unit.

Letter written to the Secretary of the Abortion Supervisory Committee on 4th June Re: Official Information Act – Request
Dear Sir, I wish to request under the Official Information Act the following information.
The Ombudsman in his letter to this Society advised that the members of the Standards Committee appointed by your Committee had resigned. [...]

Prayer support is earnestly sought for God’s blessing on Right to Life’s defence to the Crown’s appeal to the Court of Appeal in Wellington to be heard on the 12th and 13th of May 2009. The appeal concerns the June 2008 judgement of Justice Miller in the High Court on the Judicial Review of [...]

Letter sent to NZ Herald

Re March 30, the decision of the Auckland District Health Board to consider continuing with their scheme to provide free emergency contraceptive pills [ECP] to women is deplored. The scheme is morally bankrupt, it undermines our respect for human life, and the God given gift of our sexuality, it [...]