Media Release Thursday 30th May 2019
Alfred Ngaro MP is applauded for his integrity and courage in daring to say the unspeakable, that “abortion is a holocaust in our nation”. Right to Life encourages other MPs to confront this abomination and to speak up in defence of our nation’s voiceless unborn and their victimised and wounded mothers. Our women and their unborn deserve better than this abortion holocaust. Right to Life also applauds new National MP Paulo Garcia, for standing up for our unborn children in his inaugral speech in Parliament yesterday.
The dictionary declares that a holocaust is, a “huge slaughter or destruction of life”. If the violent dismembering and slaughter of more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children in New Zealand since 1978, is not a holocaust, then what is? The blood of those killed in this holocaust cries out to their Creator for justice.
It is a tragedy that the compelling objective of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is to make permanent the abortion holocaust by removing the unborn from the protection of the Crimes Act and to make the killing of the innocent child in the womb “a reproductive choice for women”. It would then be no longer a crime to kill the child in the womb but a health service and a human right for women for any reason, effectively up to birth. The child would in the words of Family Planning be, “the contents of the uterus and the products of conception”.
What compounds this holocaust is that it is authorised and funded by the state with the silent acquiescence of the community. Our Labour led government in its Wellbeing budget for 2019, has continued to make special provision to provide funding for this holocaust which is disguised as a core and essential health service with unlimited funding. The government has no difficulty in castigating District Health Boards for over spending in the provision of vital health services, but would never criticise them for money spent on funding this abortion holocaust.
This holocaust is destroying our nation. What future does a nation have that destroys its own children? The New Zealand abortion holocaust is part of the international abortion holocaust that destroys more than 56 million unborn children every year.
The Alabama State Senate in passing a bill recently to ban abortion and protect the lives of its children before birth, explicitly and rightly compares, in the text of the bill, abortion to the holocaust, executions carried out under Stalin, and the Khmer Rouge regime. In fact the abortion holocaust exceeds by greater than an order of magnitude all these combined.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life
I think the problem with rhetoric like the above is that it offends many undecided and uncommitted members of the Jewish community, as do other tactics like comparing the abortion toll to the number of fatalities during the Second World War and other acts of genocide and mass killing. Certainly, abortion is a human tragedy and on the current scale that exists in many western societies, it is mass murder, particularly when it comes to very vulnerable disabled unborn children like those with Down Syndrome and spina bifida.
As for the unborn heartbeat strategy in the United States, the problem with that is that it may be too far, too fast for some people within the United States who might be brought over to the pro-life side with some more careful attention and talking to their concerns and anxieties. Yes, we all hope that humanity will eventually prohibit the killing of the unborn through abortion one day, but this has been tried before. The 1983 US Human Life Amendment failed, and so have unborn personhood referenda in Georgia, Colorado, Mississippi and Oklahoma. Will this be any more successful? It doesn’t look as if the US Supreme Court will allow the total destruction of Roe v Wade as yet, and voicing support for absolute abortion bans, while it is something to be devoutly prayed and wished for, may play into the hands of the pro-abortionists. Sadly, Indiana Right to Life’s excellent move to ban anti-disability abortions against unborn children with Down Syndrome was voted down by the US Supreme Court recently, and I mourn the end of that dream.
Rhona, It may offend some people, but if offence is taken then it would be taken on the grounds that unborn children’s lives are of less value that that of born people. We stand by our calling this mass murder genocide as we stand by making comparisons between the numbers killed in our wars with the order of magntitude greater who have been killed while in the womb. Your argument that saying heart-beat legislation “may be too far”, we reject on the same grounds. It is hoped that while the Supreme Court in the US has not yet fully supportive of the rights of the unborn it is hopefully moving in that direction. The dream you talk of is certainly not over.
It is when it comes to particular intervention against the lives of disabled unborn children with Down Syndrome, my friends. I was hoping that the US Supreme Court would regard Indiana Right to Life’s particular abortion restriction as a justified and reasonable limitation of radical libertarian pro-abortionism in defence of a particularly vulnerable group of unborn children, those with Down Syndrome. Here’s a link to their website so you can read what they tried to do: https://irtl.org/