This article is from a post by Dr Jennifer Roback Morse on her website at www.ruthinstitute.org The 50th anniversary of the birth control pill — the Food and Drug Administration gave it final approval in 1960 — has been the occasion of much media fanfare, societal reflection — and what we might call Secular Triumphalism. [...]

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 [...]

United Families International have recently posted the article below on their website Teenage delinquents were killing their neighbours.  A few years ago, the TV news program "60 Minutes" first reported on this story.  But they weren’t talking about humans; they were talking about elephants.  It seems this story actually began about 20 years earlier in [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

May 20, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “I was an atheist for as long as I could remember” recalled Brigitte Bedard, a young-looking 41-year-old journalist and stay at home mother of six with cropped tousled brown hair and stylish thick-framed glasses. She was addressing a crowd of 200 participants at the Quebec Life Coalition pro-life conference on [...]

Although the bitter stories of post-abortive women often never see the light of day, hundreds of grieving women have shared their testimonies through the advocacy group Silent No More Awareness. Among them are several stories describing the lingering anguish of women who, unwilling to face the reality of abortion until it was too late, found [...]

Letter to CEO Southern Cross Healthcare Re: Abortion Licences – Southern Cross Hospitals It has come to the attention of our Society that consideration may be given by your administration to make application to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for licences to perform abortions at Southern Cross hospitals. We are aware that your administration currently holds [...]

A Pro-Life march has been organised to take place in Christchurch on Friday 9th April.  The march is to support the plight of the unborn child, so under threat in New Zealand today. The march is supported by the following organisations; Focus on the Family, Prolife New Zealand, Family First and Right to Life New [...]

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 [...]

This article which links to Lifesite news brings some balance into the recent attacks on the Catholic Church which seek to portray Catholic priests as the worst and most common perpetrators of child sex abuse.

Right to life expresses sadness at the death this week of Father Paul Marx at 89 years of age. A pioneer of the modern world wide Pro-Life movement, Father Marx fought tirelessly against the evils of abortion and euthanasia. He was the founder of The Population Research Institute, and Human Life International, through which the [...]

Yes. You read that right. Kiddie Condoms available now! And it gets better—they are called “Hotshots.” Let’s set aside the blatant promotion of adolescent sex and the reinforcement of stereotypes of male sexuality in the name and examine the logic here. read on

An open letter to all Members of Parliament Genetic screening and killing of unborn children in New Zealand I am writing to ask that Members of Parliament lobby the Minister of Health to cease the screening and promotion of the killing of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome. The Government’s antenatal Down syndrome screening programme [...]

I’m Watching You Dad is about the impact a father’s everyday actions can have on his kids. Kids really do look up to their parents. Too good to save for Father’s Day so share it with every dad you know today.

Black Women Found to Account for 40% of US Abortions By Carl Anderson NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, MARCH 1, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Having served for nearly a decade as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, I know that there are few subjects as controversial in American society as those issues touching race relations. Nonetheless, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nearly 50,000 5 year olds commenced their schooling in the first week of February, happy and laughing with the joy of living. Sadly there were 18,211 5 year olds missing. These are the children who were considered of little worth and whose lives were terminated by abortion in 2004. They are nameless and are recorded [...]

Family Planning is conducting a campaign to have the condom accepted as a “Kiwi rubber essential.” “The focus of the campaign is designed to get New Zealanders talking about condoms and safer sex.” It is commendable that Family Planning is seeking to reduce New Zealand’s high teenage pregnancy and STI rate. It is disappointing that [...]

Having sex at an early age can double the risk of developing cervical cancer, a study of 20,000 women suggests. The investigation into why poorer women have a higher risk of the disease found they tended to have sex about four years earlier than more affluent women. Previously, it had been thought the disparity was [...]

  Unstringing the Violinist Judith Jarvis Thompson’s "Violinist" argument is one of the most compelling ever offered in favour of abortion on demand, but it’s deeply flawed. Here’s where it goes wrong     Augustine on Evil Is God the author of evil or its helpless victim? St. Augustine’s answer has been the most intellectually [...]

Right to Life fully supports the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women and girls is an international problem of pandemic proportions. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime and it as always unacceptable. The Police in New Zealand receive 70,000 family [...]

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 with a Family Planning Association [...]

The screening of unborn babies for Down syndrome with a new national screening programme is further manifestation of a culture of death. It is a search and destroy programme that has as its sole objective the termination of the lives of unborn children. Human life begins at conception and at that point the newly conceived [...]