When I was expecting our second baby, I felt great. Minimal morning sickness, lots of energy, and so much joie de vivre it was positively annoying. Compared to the first time around it was a doddle, but, even more than that, I felt as if I was positively benefiting from carrying this little person about, kicks and aches and all.

One day my husband remarked that he had seen an article online which said that women did in fact receive ‘something’ from their unborn babies which might benefit their health. "It’s why you live longer then us men apparently," he added. I looked up the article in the New Scientist which reported that a team at the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston showed that fetal cells were transferred from the unborn baby which seemed to help to heal skin wounds in the mother, both during and after pregnancy. It was pretty amazing stuff.

Now, as reported last week on LifeSiteNews, these and many other amazing findings have been explored by science writer Jena Pinctott who draws on studies in biology, reproductive genetics and epigenetics and concludes that a baby’s fetal cells "repair and rejuvenate moms."

She gathers the evidence in her book "Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy", and what has been revealed is simply astounding.

Eminent experts say that the fetal cells given by the baby, through the placenta, to the mother are a like a gift that can protect and help her for the rest of her life, especially if she becomes critically ill.

For example, some of the fetal cells that are passed along to the mother are stem cells – and they can then become liver cells, or brain cells or thyroid cells when they are needed to help the mother battle illness. And there seems to be no downside: this is a thank you gift, from baby to mother.

Isn’t that a breathtaking revelation? Doesn’t it make the wonder of life seem even more miraculous?

The synergy and incredible beauty of the exchange left me in awe at the meticulous planning of the Man Above. Truly we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

There will of course be a tiny minority of people – mostly screechy pro-aborts – who will try to reject this good news, They are the type of people that are still droning on with lame descriptions of a baby as a parasite and a burden.

They won’t want to welcome any news that shows that not only is a child a gift – the child also gives a gift, and a precious one at that.

But most people will find what science has now uncovered to be absolutely mind-blowing : so let’s celebrate this good news, and appreciate our babies for giving us a health boost as well as an opportunity to experience unconditional love.

Let me just add that I was sick as a dog during my subsequent pregnancies, so clearly the easy ride with the second baby was just a lucky break. But now I’ve got all those fetal cells to help me with problems that arise in the future. So, thanks kids.

Author: Niamh Ui Bhriain

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Below are Operation Rescue’s Top Ten stories for 2011. Each of these stories represents achievements that are the result of OR’s efforts and leadership throughout the year. We thank God for allowing us the privilege of laboring in the pro-life movement side by side with so many fine activists across the nation. This work would not be possible without their partnership and the support and prayers of so many faithful people. We look forward to 2012 with excitement and anticipation of greater things to come.

1. Texas Abortion Abuses Exposed

Operation Rescue joined forced with The Survivors to conduct a three-month undercover investigation of randomly-selected abortion clinics in Texas. That investigation uncovered widespread abortion abuses including HIPAA violations, illegal disposal of aborted baby remains, violations of the Texas informed consent and parental notification laws, and other infractions.

Operation Rescue filed complaints with three state agencies. As a result, two abortion clinics and Stericycle, a waste disposal company that contracts with abortion clinics nationwide, was fined a total of $83,000. The Texas Medical Board is now in the process of holding hearings against the Texas 10 – ten abortionists who face discipline for violating the law and standard of care in Texas. Because OR distributed reports detailing the results of the investigation to every Texas legislator, new pro-life bills were passed that provide another layer of accountability for Texas’ out-of control abortion industry.

2. Exposing Carhart’s Maryland Late-term Abortion Business

Information gathered by Operation Rescue led to the discovery of LeRoy Carhart’s plans to relocate his late-term abortion business to Germantown Reproductive Health Services in Germantown, Maryland. Operation Rescue worked with local activists to expose Carhart’s plans and the Maryland Coalition for Life was birthed from those efforts.

Since then the pro-life movement in Maryland has grown and flourished. Over three thousand volunteers take regular shifts praying and offering help to abortion bound moms. A pro-life referral office was established directly across the parking lot from GRHC, which aids pregnant women. The Summer of Mercy 2.0, sponsored by Operation Rescue in August, brought national attention to Carhart’s grisly late-term abortions.

In addition, a complaint against Carhart was filed with the Maryland Board of Physicians alleging that he misled them on his medical license application in order to gain licensure in that state. After a full investigation, Carhart was issued a formal letter of admonishment that goes into his permanent record.

3. New Mexico Abortion Cartel Exposed

After the closure of the late-term abortion clinic in Wichita, KS, Operation Rescue learned that two of the abortionists from the Kansas clinic were relocating to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Two of our interns, Bud and Tara Shaver, felt the call of God to move to Albuquerque and work to stop abortions there. The Shavers now work with Project Defending Life, a group that works in cooperation with Operation Rescue to expose abortion abuses in New Mexico.

Together, the groups uncovered and exposed a series of 911 calls that were evidence of life-threatening abortion complications at two Albuquerque abortion clinics. Complaints were filed with the Medical Board and the investigation into these unsafe clinics is progressing. In addition, the role of the University of New Mexico in the abortion industry has been fully documented, and efforts are underway to convince the UNM Regents to cease all participation in abortion and abortion training.

4. Abortionists Face Prosecution

Part of Operation Rescue’s work involves ensuring that abortionists who violate the law are prosecuted and 2011 was a banner year. Several abortionists faced prosecutions as a direct result of Operation Rescue’s work.

One example is the case of Nicola Riley. Maryland authorities suspended Riley’s medical license after they discovered her part in a botched abortion that led to the discovery of an illegal secret late-term abortion mill operated by the nefarious abortionist Steven Chase Brigham. Operation Rescue dug deeper into Riley’s background, discovering that not only did Riley have a criminal background, but that she had lied to four states about her criminal conviction and incarceration. Operation Rescue reported the truth about her record in Maryland, Wyoming, Virginia, and her home state of Utah. As a result, Riley’s application in Virginia was denied, she surrendered her license in Wyoming, she faces additional charges in Maryland, and is restricted in Utah. She is no longer allowed to commit abortions in any state.

In Kansas, the Board of Healing Arts held a six day disciplinary hearing against abortionist Ann Kristen Neuhaus based on a complaint filed by Operation Rescue. The hearings revealed that woefully inadequate mental health exams were used to justify late-term abortions.

Meanwhile, California abortionist Andrew Rutland surrendered his license after an abortion death was ruled a homicide. Operation Rescue worked with the Medical Board to bring Rutland to justice.

Other abortionists across the nation have also faced prosecution, including the widely publicized case of Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell and his 8 associates. Gosnell faces murder charges for killing 7 newborn babies and one patient during failed abortions. OR was among the first to obtain a copy of the Grand Jury Report and the first to publish the shocking photos of Gosnell’s victims online.

5. More Abortion Clinics Closing than Ever

In the past eighteen months, nearly 50 abortion clinics have closed their doors for good. Among them was the infamous Eve Surgical Center in Los Angeles, California, where the now-banned Partial Birth Abortion method was invented. That clinic was the subject of Operation Rescue protests and years of prayers.

In 1991 there were over 2,200 abortion clinics. Today, because of the work of OR and other groups around the nation, there remain just over 670, and that number is decreasing by the week, dramatically illustrating that the abortion cartel is imploding.

6. Kansas Planned Parenthood Prosecution Proceeds

In 2007, Planned Parenthood was charged with 107 criminal counts related to illegal late-term abortions and manufacturing evidence to cover their crimes. For years, Operation Rescue has worked to keep this case in the public eye and initiate grassroots campaigns to ensure their prosecution. This year, the case continued to move forward even though it was revealed that former Attorney General Steve Six destroyed crucial evidence against Planned Parenthood. Six was an appointee of Kathleen Sebelius, a former Kansas governor who now serves as Obama’s Secretary of Health who is known as a radical supporter of unrestricted abortion. But the attempt to destroy the prosecution failed. The case now moves forward on 58 remaining counts and a criminal investigation has been launched to determine if the record shredding by Six broke the law. Operation Rescue continues its own investigation to get to the bottom of the Sebelius-era corruption.

7. Record Year for Pro-Life Legislation

An historic number of pro-life bills flooded legislatures in 2011, many of them passing into law. Some of the legislation was based on investigative reports and other work by Operation Rescue.

After Operation Rescue released an investigative report on Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s telemed or “webcam” abortion scheme, several states worked to outlaw the risky distribution of abortion pills without the presence of a licensed physician. In all seven states passed laws that effectively ban telemed abortions in 2011.

Six states also passed late-term abortion bans after 20 weeks based on fetal pain. The original Nebraska law was passed in reaction to Operation Rescue’s exposure of late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart’s plans to turn his Nebraska abortion clinic into a late-term abortion Mecca.

Operation Rescue has also lent support to groundbreaking clinic regulations in Kansas and to the Heartbeat Bill in Ohio and Kansas. Laws reflect the attitudes of the culture, and by the successes seen in the 2011 legislative season, America is more pro-life than ever.

8. Kept Wichita Abortion-Free

Since the closure of Wichita’s last abortion clinic in 2009, there have been efforts to reopen an abortion clinic in that city. In early 2011, Operation Rescue learned of two local physicians planned to open separate clinics. One physician quit after Operation Rescue exposed his plans to the community. Operation Rescue launched protests and worked with landlords that have denied the second abortionist, Mila Means, office space for her abortion enterprise. Another effort was launched by former abortion lobbyist Julie Burkhart, who has only been able to raise half the money she needs to open a clinic. Because of the efforts of Operation Rescue and other local pro-life activists, Wichita remains abortion-free.

9. Abortion Whistleblowers

In January, 2011, Operation Rescue awarded the first $25,000 reward in our Abortion Whistleblowers Program to former abortion worker Kim Nichols for coming forward with information that led to the arrest and conviction of Massachusetts abortionist Rapin Osathanondh in the death of Laura Hope Smith in 2007. Wracked with guilt over Laura’s needless death and refusing to go along with Osathanondh’s illegal efforts to conceal his negligence, Nichols worked with Laura’s mother, Eileen Smith, to bring Osathanondh to justice. In turn, Smith was advised by Operation Rescue. As a result, Osathanondh permanently lost his medical license, served jail time on a manslaughter conviction, and was forced to pay Laura’s family $2 million. Read more about the Abortion Whistleblower’s Reward Program.

10. Thwarted Confirmation of Abortion Crony to Federal Appeals Court

President Barack Obama nominated former Kansas Attorney General Steve Six to a life-time appointment on the Federal Appellate Court. Operation Rescue went to work exposing Six’s actions to block the legitimate prosecution of Planned Parenthood on 107 criminal charges and initiating grassroots opposition to Six’s nomination. As a result, both Kansas Senators refused to endorse him and eventually the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee dropped their efforts to confirm him. Keeping this radical pro-abortion activist off the Federal Bench ensures that he will not be able to continue his over protections of the abortion cartel. Now, ironically, Six is the subject of a criminal investigation for destroying critical evidence against Planned Parenthood to protect them from prosecution.

LifeNews.com Note: Cheryl Sullenger is a leader of Operation Rescue, a Kansas-based pro-life that monitors abortion practitioners and exposes their illegal and unethical practices. The group is known for serving as a watchdog of Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses.

Right to Life asserts that the flood of abortions that has occurred since the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, was never intended by those original MP’s who were involved in the introduction of that legislation. The  increasing liberalism with which laws have been interpreted in the social and health spheres in recent decades, is well known.

Attempts to restrict abortion legally did not work and through a loophole hundreds of thousands of New Zealand unborn children have died.  The talk of legally restricting euthanasia to only the most difficult cases is wrong in itself, but also foolish. If there is any slackening of our laws it Will result in a tidal wave of deaths among the elderly unwell and spread from there. Just read the article below at MercatorNet

The “slippery slope” is often derided as a logical fallacy. But when one of the leading advocacy groups for euthanasia in Belgium posts an article entitled “Euthanasie: tijd voor de volgende stap, Euthanasia, time for the next step”, it’s hard not to think that it may not be so illogical after all.

The Humanistisch-Vrijzinnige Vereniging (Humanist-Liberal Association) complains that eligibility for euthanasia is far too restrictive. At the moment, only people with unbearable suffering can be euthanased. This leaves out people in irreversible comas, people with dementia, people with irreversible brain diseases and people who are under 18. This is manifestly unfair, the HVV contends.

However, this is not just a private initiative. In November Wim Distelmans, the chairman of the official Federal Committee on Euthanasia, released an open letter to Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo asking him to re-open a national debate on euthanasia. (At the time, Di Rupo was pulling a government together (this took 589 days) but now he is officially prime minister.) He and eight colleagues, like the HVV, have asked the Belgian government to update its 2002 euthanasia law. The proposed changes include these provisions:

• At the moment, advance directives are only valid for five years. This limit should be removed.
• Doctors who oppose euthanasia should be required to refer patients to a willing colleague.
• Assisted suicide should be permitted.
• It should be permitted to euthanase people with dementia who have written a living will.
• There should be no age limit for euthanasia. (A recent opinion poll claimed that two-thirds of Belgians approve of euthansia for minors.)

To read the article and similar articles on the mercatornet.com site click here

Abortion Supervisory Committee,

Dear Ms Cole

Re: Adoptions

The Ministry of Social Development advises that in 2009 there were 40 adoptions in New Zealand. 1968 was the peak year when there were 2,617 non relative adoptions. Since that date the numbers of adoptions has steadily decreased. It is assumed that the majority, if not all the adoptions in recent years involve birth mothers who did not make the decision to place their child for adoption after being counselled by an abortion counsellor.

It should be a matter of great concern for our community that the number of babies available for adoption is so small. It is recognised that today many unmarried women courageously choose to raise the child as a single parent. There are many families who would dearly love to adopt a baby but cannot do so because there are so few babies available.

It is noted that the guidelines for counsellors require that they explore with the woman seeking an abortion, the option of choosing to place the child for adoption. Today with open adoption it is possible for the mother to have an ongoing relationship with her child and the adopting family. It is disappointing that in 2009, there were only 40 adoptions in New Zealand while in 2009, 17,550 women had an abortion, with presumably most of them receiving counselling with the option of adoption being discussed. It would appear that the counselling is failing to encourage women seeking abortion to choose life for their child by placing it for adoption. 

Our Society respectfully suggests that your Committee consider producing a pamphlet promoting adoption as a loving option to be given by counsellors to all women receiving abortion counselling.

The low adoption statistics for New Zealand raise several important questions:

· Is your Committee concerned at the very small number of adoptions that might be arising from abortion counselling?

· Does your Committee propose taking any action to encourage an increase in adoptions arising from counselling?

Yours sincerely

Ken Orr

Secretary 

The plight of patients in permanent vegetative states is becoming increasingly dire around the western world as health authorities are increasingly willing to euthanize such patients. 

Probably the highest profile and most controversial case concerned American women, Teri Schiavo, whose  life was terminated in the United States in 2005, in spite of all legal efforts of Terri’s parents to prevent it. The euthanizing of patients by  withdrawal of fluids and food for such patients has exposed the increasing threat to people in such states. Her death has opened a ‘crack in the dyke’.

This article from the New York Times concerns the  use of drugs such as Zoipeden and Ambiem  (Non-benzodiazepine sleep-inducing drugs that is used primarily to treat insomnia), to awaken patients in these states of consciousness.

Violence against women is endemic and a national tragedy. Every year on average fourteen women are killed by a member of their own family. The Police receive 70,000 family violence calls each year. There are on average 3,500 convictions every year against men for violence inflicted on women. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime and it is always unacceptable.

This White Ribbon campaign is being led by men who condemn violence against women. Abortion is also violence against women, often the result of men abandoning the mother and the child they have fathered. This abandonment is appalling and is itself a form of violence.

If we as a community are sincerely opposed to violence against women, it is absolutely imperative that we recognise that after murder, abortion is the  ultimate in violence against women.

Abortion is the rape of a woman’s womb. Consider the abortionist, a doctor with a firm determination to destroy the child, forces his way into the womb of the prostrate and helpless woman. The child alarmed at the unexpected intrusion into his home, his mother’s womb, reals in terror at the approaching instrument of death and with heart racing in terror seeks frantically to avoid the instrument.  The child’s mouth is opened wide in a silent scream as the instrument tears the arms and legs off the child.  This is violence against women and their children. The result of this violence is a dead baby and a wounded mother.

It is a tragedy that this violence is actually sanctioned by the government. It is called a core health service, with unlimited funding and no waiting list. As an essential service all District Health Boards are required to provide it. This is an  appalling abuse of women sanctioned by the government. This violence is happening every day in our Public Hospitals. Why do we call this violence a health service?

Abortions are free and are funded by us the taxpayer, It is a tragedy that we are all implicated against our will in this violence against women. We thus have the blood of the innocents on our hands. If  we as a society really want to eliminate violence against women, we need to stop the violence of abortion.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

The Press.

Dear Sir

The Hidden Agenda of the Greens

Re Bruce Whitehead 22 November. The electorate should be aware of the hidden agenda of the Greens Party. In 2008 in the Victorian Parliament the Greens voted for the decriminalisation of abortion which meant that it was no longer a crime to kill an unborn child. Victoria now has the most permissive abortion law in the world. The  law provides for abortion on demand and a woman can now demand an abortion for any reason. The Greens in Australia support same sex marriage and same sex adoption. The Greens also support the education system teaching that homosexuality is normal. The electorate should recognise that the Greens represent in our Parliament a threat to the protection of the right to life of unborn children and to the institution of marriage as exclusively between one woman and one man. A vote for the Greens is a vote against the right to life and the traditional  family.

Yours faithfully

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

The following questions were asked of all candidates

Right to Life was extremely disappointed with the number of responses received and asks if it is acceptable in a democracy for candidates and parties to refuse to answer valid and important questions which the voters should expect to be able to ask and have answered.

Results:  for a table (PDF FILE) summarising (the extremely sparse) candidate response click here

Right to Life recommends the survey undertaken by the Family First organisation whose website Value Your Vote gives extensive information on the attitudes of candidates to important Pro-life, Pro-Marriage and Pro-Family Issues. To visit their website click here.

National

We received only two responses from National Party candidates; Jonathan Fletcher for Rimutuka and Phil Heatley for Whangarei. Phil Heatley was entirely pro-life and Jonathan Fletcher very predominantly pro-life.

Labour

Charles Chauvel  The Labour List MP based in Ohariu and Labour’s spokesperson for Justice and the Environment replied in an email that he was replying on behalf of ALL Labour candidates. However he did not. Thre was no response to the questions raised in the questionnaire. Charles Chauvel did include in his email reply a speech he gave in the House earlier in the year when the Abortion Supervisory Committee appointments were made. In his speech he in part said…

I will say one or two words about the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act. It is a poorly drafted Act. It is antiquated. Litigation over its provisions has been frequent, especially in recent years. The legislation contains what to a contemporary ear are offensive terms—for example, the title of section 4, “Administering Contraceptives to Mentally Subnormal Females”. It is widely agreed that the legislation needs to be modernised and administered as a health statute rather than a justice one (RTL’s emphasis), which was the paradigm at the time in 1977 when the legislation was framed. I certainly personally welcome an updating of the law, and I hope to see that some time during my service in this House.

He claimed that his speech generally reflected most views in Labour. That one Labour MP can claim to speak on conscience issues for all candidates is worrying to us.

In fact Charles Chauvel was not correct as we did have some individual responses from sitting Labour candidates.

Greens

We received a reply from Sue Coutts of the Greens Party who said that she was also replying on behalf of the party. When asked how this could be when Right to Life wished to know the views of each candidate to inform voters in individual electorates, we were advised that they still considered it a Party Issue. Right to Life considers this a cop-out.

Conservative

We did not receive any questionnaires back from the Conservative Party

New Zealand First

We did not receive any questionnaires back from NZ First

Act

We received only one response from Act. Ian Cummings, candidate for the Hunua electorate did not answer the questionnaire but stated that “All life is precious”

Alliance

Although we did not send a questionnaire to Alliance party candidates we did get a response from Kelly Buchanan who is the Alliance candidate for the Wellington Central electorate. All her responses indicated that she was not pro-life.

Media Release

Right to Life welcomes the decision of the New Zealand Medical Council not to proceed with its appeal to the Court of Appeal of the judgment of Justice McKenzie given in the High Court in Wellington in December 2010. The judgment stated that a medical practitioner who was opposed in conscience to abortions was not obliged to refer a woman seeking an abortion to another doctor who would facilitate the abortion.

The Medical Council in withdrawing its appeal is acting in the best interest of the medical profession, the community and indeed women and unborn children. The decision will hopefully result in deterring some women from seeking an abortion and thus saving the life of their unborn child.

Parliament in passing the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act in 1977 provided protection for the conscience of doctors and others under section 46, To perform or assist in the performance of an abortion or any operation undertaken or to be undertaken for the purpose of rendering the patient sterile:..if he objects to doing so on the grounds of conscience. The High Court in December 2010 had found that medical practitioners were only required to conform to the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act 2003 section 174 [2] which states that: “the health practitioner must inform the person who requests the service that he or she can obtain the service from another health practitioner or from a family planning clinic.”

Freedom of conscience is important for the practice of medicine. It was the imposition of the state in Nazi Germany that gave us the crimes against humanity perpetrated by doctors whose conscience was subject to the dictates of the Nazi regime. We must remain ever vigilant to protect the informed conscience of the medical profession. It is our conscience that guides us to do good and to avoid evil. In 1948 the General Assembly of the World Medical Association in Geneva passed a Declaration on the responsibilities of medical practitioners.

It included, “The health and life of my patient will be my first consideration.” It also stated, “I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of its conception, even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.” The Geneva Declaration was made in response to the crimes against humanity that were perpetrated by Nazi Germany.

The pro-abortion movement supported the assault on the conscience of medical practitioners on the pretext that abortion was an essential health service. Abortion is not a health service,  it is the killing of a defenceless and innocent unborn child a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity.

The community should be aware that there is an organised international assault on the conscience of medical practitioners in many countries to compel doctors to assist and perform abortions. Sustained pressure is also being imposed on hospitals to provide abortions. This is a culture of death that is being strenuously resisted. 

Right to Life requests that the Medical Council promotes a culture of life and opposes a culture of death by amending the draft document to uphold the primacy of conscience and protect women’s health and the lives of their unborn children.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life,

Right to Life requests that voters vote only for candidates who are committed to upholding the sanctity of life ethic which is the most important issue facing the nation at this year’s General Election.  This ethic is the foundation stone of a civil society. It is a continuing tragedy that this fundamental issue which should be at the forefront of our nation’s concern and consideration, has been generally ignored by the electorate and by many of those seeking election to Parliament.

During the next term of office of our Parliament nearly 50,000 innocent and defenceless children in violation of their right to life, will be killed in their mother’s womb, sanctioned and funded by the government. A legal system that violates the most basic right to life on the grounds of choice is fundamentally flawed. New Zealand is increasingly being enveloped by a culture of death with the threat of euthanasia looming ever closer. This will be a threat to the elderly the infirm and sick and ultimately for any person who is deemed to be unproductive. Are we aware of this and why is this not an issue?

It is the privilege and first duty of the State to protect the right to life of every person from conception to natural death. Justice is the only solid foundation of any State. The right to life , to inviolability, to freedom, is an indispensable part of any moral order.

Those who seek election to Parliament have a duty to promote the common good and to uphold the sanctity of life of every person from conception to natural death. Any candidate who fails to uphold these basic precepts, forfeits their right to be elected to Parliament.

Those who have the privilege to elect those who will govern our nation for the next three years have a duty to elect only those who have a commitment to upholding the sanctity of life of every person from conception to natural death.

The Catholic Church upholds the natural law and the dignity of each person. It teaches that abortion – the killing of an unborn child; embryonic stem cell research – which entails the destruction of a human being and euthanasia – the killing of the terminally ill and assisted suicide are intrinsically evil. The Church in defence of the dignity of the human person teaches that Catholic voters should not vote for a candidate who takes a position in favour of an intrinsic evil such as abortion, embryonic stem cell research or euthanasia.

The right to life, the most basic and fundamental right that is the foundation of all our other human rights should be at the forefront of the manifestoes of all political parties. It is disappointing that the Labour, National and Greens Parties do not have policies that uphold the right to life of unborn children. The Greens Party has a number of commendable environmental and social policies that promote the common good but, it is the view of Right to Life that the Greens Party in Parliament presents a growing threat to the right to life of our unborn children and to the upholding of marriage as exclusively for one man and one woman.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.