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Doctors refusing to kill unborn children with Lethal Injection

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Media Release 1 May 2021

Doctors refusing to kill unborn children with Lethal Injection 

The Mid Central District Health Board recently funded an estimated $10,000 for an abortion in Sydney that doctors in New Zealand had presumably refused to do, because they did not believe that it was “appropriate.”  

A summary of quarterly reports of District Health Boards [DHB] by the Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, revealed his concern that there were only 4 DHBs where doctors were prepared to administer feticide to kill the unborn who were 22 weeks or more in gestation.

Dr Bloomfield has instructed that for medical abortions of these children that feticide, an injection of Potassium chloride, was to be injected into the heart of the child to kill it and ensure that the baby was not born alive. The purpose of abortion is to produce a dead baby, not a live one. 

There are 4 DHBs that offer feticide, Auckland, Capital & Coast, Canterbury and Southern. Dr Bloomfield is concerned that many doctors refuse on conscience grounds to be involved in the killing of the unborn.

Dr Bloomfield’s summary reveals:-

·       “That some medical practitioners are unwilling to be involved outside of care for severe fetal abnormality.”

·       “Providers of feticide are likely to object to being involved if the abortion is not because of fetal abnormality or severe health risk to the woman.”

The Minister of Health, Andrew Little, previously the Minister for Justice, stated on 6 August 2019, when presenting the Abortion Legislation bill at its first reading:-

“The evidence is that virtually all abortions carried out after 20 weeks are because of severe foetal abnormality or because there is a severe risk to the woman’s life or physical health. And, for the record, let me state there is no such thing as “full-term abortion”. 

The conclusions of the Director General of Health contradict the statement of his Minister. It must now be concluded that many late term abortions are performed, some up to birth are for socio economic reasons and have nothing to do with protecting the life or health of the mother.

This was the predictable result of Parliament passing the Prime Minister’s extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020. The report of the Perinatal  Maternal Review Commission report for 2018 revealing that in 2017 and in 2018 there 3 abortions between 37 and 40 weeks gestation, this confirms that abortions are being done up to birth.

Right to Life applauds those courageous doctors, midwifes and nurses who refuse to be involved in the killing of the defenceless unborn before birth.

The concern of Dr Bloomfield was highlighted by information obtained under the Official Information Act from the Mid Central DHB. It was disclosed that a DHB had sent a women wanting a late term abortion to the Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Sydney. The cost of this abortion funded by the DHB was $8,633.99 plus travel and accommodation costs.

The Perinatal Maternal Mortality Review Commission revealed in its latest report that there were 135 late term abortions from 20 weeks gestation in 2018. * (See end of post for details)

37 – 40 weeks    <3 abortions

32 –  36 weeks,  3

28 –  31 weeks   <3

25 –  27  weeks 16

23 –  24  weeks 26

20 –  22  weeks  87

Dr Bloomfield has directed that, in the event that feticide with a lethal injection of Potassium chloride is not available because of the refusal of doctors refusing to be involved on conscience grounds, then doctors must kill the unborn in a surgical abortion.

This is particularly gruesome and excruciatingly painful, surgical abortion involves crushing, dismemberment and removal of the baby’s body from a woman’s uterus, mere weeks before, or even after, the child reaches a developmental age of potential viability outside the mother.

Right to Life is opposed to Dr Bloomfield’s proposal to develop an employment strategy to ensure staff are committed to the killing of unborn children as health care as part of their job description, consistent with the new legislation. Our hospitals should be committed to caring not killing.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

 

* A summary table with the figures is available on page 60 of the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee | Te P?rongo ?-Tau Tekau m? Wh? o te Komiti Arotake Mate P?pi, Mate Whaea Hoki. A copy can be viewed or downloaded on our website: https://www.hqsc.govt.nz/our-programmes/mrc/pmmrc/publications-and-resources/publication/4210/.

Newshub Biased News No service to the Community

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Media Release 27 April 2021

It is disappointing that Newshub which has high standards allows misinformation and slander to be presented as factual news. The article “Controversy over abortion clinic safe zones heats up as Bill heads towards second reading” fails to provide the community with information on this important issue concerning human rights.

The community have a right to ask why comment was sought from the lady from Arizona, Terry Bellamak, who is the national president of Abortion Rights Aotearoa. This organisation has a national membership of approximately 25 members. Right to Life challenges her opinions which are ill informed and slanderous, she clearly does not represent the views of New Zealand women.

 Terry Bellamak told Newshub  ” Right now, people are not protected from harassment outside abortion clinics.”

This is totally untrue, the community should be aware that the Summary Offences Act provides protection against any person engaging in harassment or intimidation. There is absolutely no need for additional legislation to address a problem that does not exist except in the minds of Terry Bellamak and radical pro-abortionists who are determined to control and restrict our right to free speech, assembly and communication.

“People shouldn’t have to stand up to bullies in order to get healthcare. There’s no reason why people using reproductive health care should have to do that.”

This is slanderous and hate speech directed at peaceful and lawful men and women who motivated by love and compassion for women, who pray outside abortion clinics and are prepared to offer help to women who wish to choose life for their precious unborn child.

“Nobody knows the stories of the people walking in – not that anyone should judge anyone for healthcare decisions but it’s especially harmful and hurtful for people losing a wanted pregnancy to have people outside the clinic calling them a murderer.”

To accuse a person praying outside of an abortion clinic of calling women “murderer” is simply appalling. Women are the second victim of abortion. We would never ever call them murderer. This is a shocking and slanderous accusation to make and it is untrue. What evidence do you have, why was a complaint not made to the hospital authorities?

Newshub should act in accordance with the highest standards of the fourth estate as the protector of our Parliamentary democracy. They should inform our community that the Law Commission is opposed to this poorly drafted and unnecessary bill.

The Commission in October 2018 in its Ministerial briefing paper,  Alternative approaches to Abortion, on safe zones, advised the Minister; “At this time the Commission does not see a strong case for this.”…”The Commission sought input from health professional bodies, abortion service providers and health practitioners about safe access zones. The majority felt that safe access zones were not needed.”

Why is this information being withheld from the community?

Ken Orr,

Right to Life

“Safe Areas” amendment to Abortion Legislation simply a farce!

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Media Release 23rd Feb 2021

In the interest of protecting the rights of women and their precious unborn children and the right to freedom of speech and assembly, Right to Life requests that Parliament vote against Louisa Wall’s Private Members Abortion Legislation [Safe Areas] Amendment Bill, at its first reading.

We believe this Bill is being driven by Jacinda Ardern, thinly disguised by having this Bill in Wall’s name. Ardern’s efforts to include the provisions of this bill in her Abortion Legislation Act in March 2020 were frustrated at that time because of an “administrative mishap in the house”.  Not to be daunted we believe that Jacinda Ardern has now found a vehicle to ensure that the presence of peaceful and law abiding people outside killing centres is completely shut down. 

The bill is a distraction from the real violence and harassment inflicted on women in abortion mills. How ridiculous that this bill is promoted to keep women safe!

Women are reduced to tears and grief not by what happens to them outside abortion mills, but by what happens to them inside. May God forgive us for what we allow to happen to women under the pretence that it is health care.

Louisa Wall seeks to address a problem that does not exist. We suggest that she read the report of the Law Commission to the Minister of Justice on suggested changes to the abortion laws.

The Law Commission, on safe zones advised the Minister, “At this time the Commission does not see a strong case for this.”...”The Commission sought input from health professional bodies, abortion service providers and health practitioners about safe access zones. The majority felt that safe access zones were not needed.”

The Commission were also concerned that legislation imposing safe zones would be infringing on the right to freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association protected by the Bill of Rights 1990.

The Commission also stated that it, ”has not seen any clear evidence that the existing laws around intimidating and anti-social behaviour are inadequate.” 

Right to Life supports the right of compassionate, law abiding and caring people to assemble outside of abortion clinics to offer loving help to women who seek help to choose life for their children. There are many women who have been grateful for their presence and help in their hour of need.

The claim that a woman entering a public hospital for an abortion can be harassed, is simply not logical. How can anyone know that a woman entering a public hospital is going there for an abortion. It is simply impossible. The vast majority of abortion facilities are in public hospitals and it is not possible to know if a woman entering a hospital is attending an out patients clinic, visiting a sick relative or seeking an abortion.

Right to Life totally rejects the false and unsubstantiated claims that peaceful, caring law abiding citizens are harassing women. There is absolutely no need for this legislation and we call on Parliament to uphold the laws that uphold not take away our freedoms and human rights.

 

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Is the government guilty of hate speech?

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Media Release 8 January 2021

Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and her government are guilty of hate speech. Under the guise of promoting women’s rights, the government is guilty of promoting hate speech against vulnerable women and their precious unborn children.

There is no other group of human beings in New Zealand who are more subject to hate speech and violence than our own women when pregnant with a child in the womb. It was our own Prime Minister, who is a loving mother, declared in 2017 that it was not a crime to kill an unborn child and that killing the child was “a reproductive choice for women.” It was the Prime Minister who voted against every amendment to the abortion bill to provide protection for women and her child. She voted against pain relief for the baby being killed, palliative care for a child born alive in an abortion, sex selection abortions and retaining the 20 week limit for killing children with Down syndrome or other disability.  

The Ardern government has actually enshrined hate speech in legislation. The anti–feminist and anti-life Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is the embodiment and epitome of hate speech in that discriminates and incites violence against vulnerable women and their defenceless unborn children.

What could be more hateful than to tell woman with child:-

That your child is not a human being until it is born.

That it does not have a right to life.

That it has no value and has no right to the protection of the State.

That you have a right to kill your child up to birth and that we will pay for it.

It is unbelievable that the government is committed to passing legislation that will restrict freedom of speech by making it a crime to express an opinion on important social issues. Right to Life believes that it is the government’s intention to classify as hate speech, opposition to the killing of the unborn, defence of the right to life, opposition to the killing of the vulnerable with assisted suicide and euthanasia and defence of marriage as being exclusively one man and one woman.

In New Zealand, Labour’s 2020 election manifesto stated that “Labour will extend legal protections for groups that experience hate speech, including for reasons of religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation, by ensuring that we prohibit speech that is likely to incite others to feel hostility or contempt towards these groups under the Human Rights Act 1993.”

There is no other group in New Zealand that is more subject to government orchestrated hate speech and violence than our own unborn children and their mothers. If the government is really serious about hate speech, it will repeal the hateful and destructive  Abortion Legislation Act and replace it with legislation that expresses love for both mother and child by protecting the life of the child.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Joy to the world -the Birth of Christ and human dignity

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Media Release 27 December 2020

Joy to the world -the Birth of Christ and human dignity

God’s gift to the human race. The celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, proclaims the ineffable truth of the sanctity and dignity of the humanity of every unborn child from conception. Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, emptied Himself to take on our humanity. From the very moment of conception He the Son of God was also truly a human being. He deigned to take on the helplessness of being a human embryo and a foetus. He did not become a human being at birth, as He was fully human at conception.

Man alone is made in the image and likeness of God and is alone called to eternal union with God. Every child is lovingly formed in the womb of its mother by God. The Old Testament tells us in Genesis, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. “Every child at the moment of conception is endowed with human rights, the foundation right being a right to life. Every child, regardless of the circumstances of its conception, is a gift from God, endowed with gifts to enrich our community.

God, by inviting the cooperation of Mary in the conception of Jesus, has sanctified the womb of every woman in a special way as being a sanctuary for the first nine months of life of every human being.

Every child is called to eternal union with God who made us for Himself. It is our privilege to love, respect and protect the life of every child from conception. Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle and masterpiece of God’s loving creation sent into this world with a plan for its happiness.

·       It is an appalling outrage and an unspeakable offence against God to deny the humanity of God’s masterpiece, the unborn child.

·       It is a grave offence to our Creator and  a crime against humanity for the State to deny the child’s right to life and to approve and fund its killing as a core health service by poisoning, violent dismemberment or by sucking it out of its mother’s womb.

·       It is a violation of the rights of women for the State to withdraw its protection for women from the violence inflicted on her by those seeking to kill her innocent and defenceless child. Every unborn child is a precious child of God, it is not as falsely described by the government as the contents of the uterus, the products of conception or after being violently killed, discarded as medical waste.

Right to Life believes that the Labour government of Jacinda Ardern, in passing the anti-life and anti- feminist  Abortion Legislation Act 2020, perceives the unborn as a threat to the nation.  It has sadly rejected God’s plan for procreation and aligned itself with the biblical King Herod in his slaughter of the innocents, seen to be a threat to his throne and to his kingdom.

Right to Life will continue to defend and uphold the dignity of women and motherhood to defend the humanity and the right to life of every human being from conception and to uphold the message of the birth of Christ that every child should be welcomed into the world with love, joy and hope.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Why has the feminist movement betrayed women?

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Media Release 10 December 2020

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women. Abortion betrays the basic feminist principles of nonviolence, non-discrimination and justice for all. Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women—and that women at the behest of men have settled for less. Women deserve better.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, claims to be a progressive, republican feminist, however sadly she is not. As a woman and a mother why is she not at the forefront of defending women and their precious unborn? How can she claim to be a feminist when she was the architect of the notorious anti-feminist Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which undermines the dignity and status of women, and denies the humanity and right to life of their precious unborn?

More than a century ago, the same women who fought for women’s rights and for the rights of slaves to be free also fought to protect women and children from abortion. Right to Life and the pro-life movement today stand with women to protect women and children.

Feminism was born of abolition. All people are equal. Not all choices are equal. We envision a better day, a day when womanhood is celebrated, mothers are supported, fatherhood is honoured and every child is cherished.

The feminist movement has the responsibility of promoting protection of the human rights of women from conception to natural death, the foundation right being the right to life. The feminist movement should be at the forefront in seeking  protection of women in the first nine months of life in their mother’s womb. It was in the 1970s that the feminist movement was infiltrated by those who promoted abortion. It is important that those who are now promoting a dangerous anti life and anti feminist agenda are exposed and challenged.

Family Planning, when founded in the 1950s, was opposed to abortion. It now claims to represent the interests of women and genuinely believed that women would not be emancipated and truly free until the law was changed to make it no longer a crime to kill an unborn child.

They also believed that the stigma associated with the killing of the innocent and defenceless should be silenced by making the killing of the unborn “a reproductive health service.”

Family Planning is aware that many women having an abortion are subject to coercion and domestic violence. Right to Life advocates unconditional support for women who lovingly place their babies into the arms of adoptive couples. We applaud birth mothers, who say that “adoption can be an empowering option for women.”

We stand in solidarity with women who have been betrayed by those they count on the most, with women who have underestimated their own strength, with women who have experienced abortion and are silent no more, with young men and women who mourn their missing siblings. We mourn with those pregnant women who naively went to Family Planning seeking help and were offered :assistance” and were encouraged to terminate the life of their precious child. We mourn with men who weren’t given a choice or who contributed to an abortion that they now regret.

All of this is unthinkable.

As we work together toward that vision, pro-life feminists hope that our sisters who promote abortion will one day realize that unborn children are not their property either and that violence against them is equally unacceptable. Let us not need to spend another 150 years establishing that the children we bear are also persons.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

National March for Life Wellington

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Media Release 5 December 2020

Today more than 1000 women, men and children joyfully and peacefully marched to Parliament from Civic Square to give witness to the sanctity of the life of every child from the moment of conception. They recognise that every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation. Every human life is precious and should be protected.

At Parliament they were addressed by pro-life MP Simon O’Connor and former M.P. Agnes Loheni and pro-life leaders. They wish to give a strong message to our Parliament, our government and to the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the anti-life and anti-feminist Abortion Legislation Act 2020, that we are totally opposed to the decriminalisation of the killing of the unborn and the state funded genocide against our defenceless unborn children. It is always a crime against humanity to kill an innocent unborn child. They also wished to expressed their love for both mother and child, for both of their lives matter. Many people on this march held placards stating “Both lives matter.”

Since 1978, more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless unborn have been violently killed in the womb in New Zealand. Every day in New Zealand an estimated 36 unborn children unnamed and known only to God are taken to hospitals and clinics to be poisoned, violently dismembered or sucked from their mother’s womb.

We mourn to for their mothers, the other victim of abortion who are so often coerced and threatened with violence and abandonment. A plea for abortion is often a desperate cry for help. our women deserve better than abortion. they deserve our love and support. We will not rest until the extremist abortion legislation of Jacinda Ardern is repealed. Right to Life was pleased to join with other pro-life organisations in supporting this March for Life.

Despite the attempts of parliament to silence the voice of those who fight for the defenceless unborn children, we will not be silenced nor allow our voices to be muffled. A very small minority of people opposed to our message attended the march and used their freedom of expression to vent their misguided beliefs. While we allow them the freedom to do this, we must not allow our freedom of expression to be reduced or redirected in any way, for this reduction of our freedoms will affect all of our freedoms, for when the right to life is blocked, then any other freedom is at risk.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Government’s deafening silence on catastrophic birth rate

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Media Release 21 November 2020

Should we expect our Labour government that promotes and funds the violent killing of our precious children before birth to be concerned about our appalling fertility rate?

 Our birth rate has been below replacement level since 1975.

Why is the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and her government, silent in response to New Zealand’s appalling birth rate? Our nation is facing an increasing demographic winter which will have a catastrophic effect on the future of this nation. We have an increasing ageing community with a declining workforce to support them and look after them. Why does the government not have a policy to increase our birth rate and confront this crisis?

Statistics NZ have announced that our fertility rate is now 1.63, the lowest ever recorded in New Zealand since 1894. The replacement birth rate is 2.1 for women between the ages of 15 and 44. Demographers warn that a birth rate of 1.5 is the point of no return.

Our birth rate has been in decline since the 1960s when the contraceptive pill was introduced. In 1931 at the height of the great depression, the birth rate was 3.61. In 1974 the birth rate was 2.12, just above replacement level and that was the last year that we had a replacement birth rate.

Right to Life applauds the courageous women who sacrifice themselves by choosing to have children and raise them in spite of the formidable obstacles confronting them, especially the more than 200,000 solo mothers who are raising children alone.We also applaud the noble women who chose life for their baby in the face of abandonment of the father and coercion to choose abortion.

Right to Life believes that there are many reasons for this crisis.

·       The Labour government of Jacinda Ardern has undermined motherhood, the dignity of the family and the humanity of the unborn child, by passing the Abortion Legislation Act, which promotes the legal fiction that the child is not a human being until it is born. It is now no longer a crime to kill an unborn child but in the words of our Prime Minister, “a reproductive choice for women.”

·       The breakdown of marriage in New Zealand.

·       Half the children born in New Zealand are born out of wedlock or a defacto relationship.

·       Divorce and the abandonment of women.

·       Contraception, sterilisation and the Same Sex Marriage Act 2013.

·       Abortion, one in five potentially normal pregnancies ends in the killing of the child in the womb. Each year more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children are poisoned, violently dismembered or sucked out of their mother’s womb. Each child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

·       The failure of the government to promote open adoption as a loving option in preference to the violent killing of the child in an abortion.

·       The excessive cost of housing, both building and rental. New Zealand is the second most expensive country in the OECD to raise a child.

·       The economic pressure on women to be in the workforce in preference to being a dedicated mother at home raising a family.

The government needs to urgently publicly acknowledge the demographic crisis and formulate a policy to promote marriage exclusively between one woman and one man and to promote child rearing. Two thirds of countries in Europe have measures to encourage fertility, baby bonuses, tax incentives and paid parental leave.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Freedom of speech challenged by Hon Phil Twyford

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Media Release 11 October 2020

Right to Life is concerned that the Hon Phil Twyford, the MP for Te Atatu, with the support of the Prime Minister, Hon. Jacinda Ardern, has sought to challenge the right of free speech of Alfred Ngaro, the National candidate for Te Atatu. He was asking members of his electorate if these are the values that you want in Parliament? The Minister is claiming that a statement made by Alfred Ngaro on his Facebook account was “a gross piece of misinformation.” “It has more in common with the fake news of the American religious right than the way we do politics in New Zealand.”

The killing of unborn children is a human rights issue not a religious issue. It is deplorable that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is quoted by One News as condemning the factual statement of Alfred Ngaro as,” blatant misinformation.”   

The statement on Facebook said that the Hon Phil Twyford supported full term abortion and abortion based on gender and disability. The Minister is angry that Alfred Ngaro is asking the members of his electorate of Te Atatu if your local MP should represent the values of the people?

The electorate have a right to know how their elected MPs vote in Parliament. Alfred Ngaro is providing a service to his community by reminding them how their elected member has failed to protect women and the unborn child by supporting this extreme abortion legislation and rejecting amendments to protect them. The position of the Minister on these important issues is a matter of public record, it is not fake news.

Right to Life believes that Alfred Ngaro was justified in believing that the Hon Phil Twyford  supported these appalling values as he had voted on the 17 March 2020 against these amendments to the Abortion Legislation Bill that allows abortions up to birth that would have:-

·       Prohibited abortions after 20 weeks except in extreme circumstances to protect the life or health of the mother.

·       Prohibited abortions on the grounds of sex selection.

·       Prohibited abortions after 20 weeks for babies diagnosed with a disability including Down syndrome.

Hansard is the official record of Parliament, it is not fake news and records these votes by the Minister. Hansard also records that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and thirty-six of her caucus voted for this anti-life and anti-feminist Abortion Legislation Act, with only nine voting against the bill.

The Hon Phil Twyford also voted against amendments that would have:-

·      Provided appropriate care to any child born alive in an abortion.

·      Required pain relief being given to a child being aborted after 20 weeks.

·      Provided increased legal protection for women and their unborn child.

Right to Life is very concerned that Newshub which reported this attack on free speech by Minister Twyford and which is at the service of the community, did not uphold the right of free speech of Alfred Ngaro.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life    

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Why we cannot trust Jacinda Ardern with another three years

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The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is asking us to trust her to lead our nation for another three years. Right to Life believes that it would be unwise and contrary to the common good to elect her government for a further three years.

Our Prime Minister made the following statement made on the 3rd August 2019. “ I feel a huge duty of care to our most vulnerable, and genuinely believe our success as leaders should be judged on no lesser standard than the well-being of children.”

How then has she exercised her duty of care?

For a start Jacinda Ardern was the architect of the anti-life and anti-feminist Abortion Legislation Act 2020. This Act represents an unprecedented attack on the family, on the status and dignity of women and on the right to life of New Zealanders in the first nine months of their lives.

Taking women and the unborn out of the protection of the Crimes Act, has given government permission for the violent killing of the unborn up to birth. This appalling Act has created a very dangerous precedent. It was prophesised by the Royal Commission on Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion in 1977, when it warned Parliament, that if Parliament did not effectively protect the right to life of the unborn, a future Parliament would refuse to protect the right to life of those with Dementia and Alzheimer’s.

The Act results in the following outcomes:-

  • It withdraws the protection of the State to protect women and their unborn child.
  • It denies the humanity of the unborn child.
  • It denies the child’s inalienable God given right to life.
  • It grants property rights to the mother over her child.
  • It declares that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child.
  • It grants the “right” of the mother to terminate the life of her child,
  • It pretends that the killing of a defenceless unborn child is health care.
  • It violates the conscience rights of doctors not to be involved in the killing of their unborn patients.

The Prime Minister also voted against seven amendments, which were all defeated, that would have saved lives and would have provided increased protection for women and the unborn child.

  • Appropriate care for a child born alive in an abortion. Voted down.
  • A prohibition of sex selection abortion. Voted down.
  • A prohibition of the killing of disabled unborn children after 20 weeks, including those with Down syndrome. Voted down.
  • The provision of pain relief for unborn children after 20 weeks. Voted down.
  • Restricting abortions between 20 weeks and birth (to where a woman’s life or health is at risk). Voted down.

Can the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, be trusted?  In 2017 she made a promise to the disability community in response to concerns expressed by the Saving Down’s advocacy group that the new abortion bill would remove the current 20 week prohibition and allow abortions up to birth for foetal abnormality. The Prime Minister responded, “They have said till 40 weeks, which is wrong, which is wrong. We have time periods already set out in law, I am not proposing changes to that. I am proposing it comes out of the Crimes Act,” this is simply untrue. The Prime Minister shamefully broke her promise.

The Prime Minister also supported the End of Life Choice Act that would allow doctors to give their patients a lethal injection or assist in their suicide. This Act is a threat to the lives of the most vulnerable in our community.

Her support for this anti-life Act reveals that she believes that Parliament has a right to decide who may live and who may be killed and that doctors have a right to kill their patients.

Right to Life believes that those who wish to lead this nation must be committed to protecting every human being from conception to natural death and not seeking to preside over our destruction.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Authorised by Paul Ives, for Right to LIfe NZ, 22C McBrattney’s Rd, Dallington, Christchurch 8061

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