Right to Life Letter sent to NZ Daily Newspapers
Peter Dunne should resign from Parliament
It was scandalous for Peter Dunne to refuse to fully co-operate with the government enquiry into the leaking of the confidential report on spying. His credibility as a Member of Parliament is irrevocably compromised. The honourable action for him to take is to resign from Parliament.
His credibility sadly was destroyed many years ago. He betrayed the membership and the Members of Parliament of United Future by repudiating Christian values. Finally he betrayed the voters who thought they were supporting a Christian Party. He claimed to be an advocate for the family sadly he was not. He is opposed to the right to life of unborn children and supports the decriminalisation of abortion with abortion being legal for any reason or no reason up to birth. He is opposed to parental notification for teen pregnancies. He is opposed to abstinence and parental-based sex education. He supports the destruction of human embryos for stem cell research and he supports same sex adoption by non-biological adults. He refused to uphold the institution of marriage as being exclusively for one man and one woman by supporting the notorious Wall bill. Our nation needs Parliamentarians who will defend life marriage and the family.
Yours sincerely
Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life,
Our nation also needs those who will defend the poor, vulnerable, elderly and disabled from the threat of euthanasia and physician assisted killing. While Dunne’s record on pro-life issues is abhorrent, what about his accuser, Winston Peters? Peters has voted twice for the Death With Dignity pro-euthanasia bills of his former MPs Michael Laws and Peter Brown to proceed to their select committee stage.
Mr Peters has his own flaws and we would do well to remember them. Is he an ally of the pro-life cause, given his prior support for decriminalising physician assisted killing?
And while he may well have voted in the interests of the unborn child in the past, which is commendable, unfortunately his stance on the other priority pro-life concern needs to be taken into account in this context.