The Family Planning Association [FPA] in its submission to the Law Commission support the proposal of the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and to treat abortion as a health issue that is a reproductive choice for women, rather than as a criminal issue. The unborn child has no human rights until it is born. It should no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child.
The FPA with the requested law change intends, “to further develop abortion services to meet the needs of the community”. It would be a catastrophe for women and their defenceless unborn if the FPA developed its 29 clinics in New Zealand into killing centres.
The FPA claim that the current abortion legislation, “is no longer fit for purpose from both a health and human rights perspective. Women’s lives and status in society have changed since the 1970s.”
Right to Life obtained their submission from the Law Commission under the Official Information Act. The FPA submit that it is no longer necessary to have abortions authorised by two certifying consultants or for abortions to be performed in licensed hospitals or clinics. The Association believes that most surgical and medical abortions can be performed in community and primary care clinics including FPA clinics, with no specialised facilities required.
The FPA in its submission have:-
- Rejected the duty of the State to protect the lives of the unborn, its future citizens.
- Believes that life begins at birth and accepts the killing of the unborn up to birth for any reason including that the child was the wrong sex.
- Accepted the killing of those those with Down syndrome, up to birth.
- Accepted abortion up to birth for socio-economic reasons.
Right to Life asks the FPA how do you reconcile your claim to be advocates for women when you support the killing of women in the womb ?
The community should recognise that the FPA that views pregnancy as a disease is at the forefront in New Zealand in promoting a culture of death with abortifacient contraception, sterilisation and the killing of the unborn. The FPA is the enemy of the family with the promotion of hedonistic sexuality that distorts the Creators plan for procreation by entirely separating sexual intercourse from pro-creation. The FPA seduces our children with comprehensive sex education, promotes sex outside of marriage at any age with either male or female, opposes parental notification and smuggles girls out of school for secret abortions without the knowledge or consent of parents.
Right to Life together with the pro-life, pro-women and pro-family movement will vigorously oppose the FPAs plans to set up killing centres in New Zealand and will continue to advocate for the government defunding this hostile to life organisation.
Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life
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