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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    

Authorised by Paul Ives, 22C McBratneys Road, Christchurch

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

Which Leader will Protect Life and Promote Human Dignity?

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In September our nation will make a decision that will determine the future of our country. This election is a watershed moment in our history and one in which we all have a part to play. We face the real possibility, of the return to power of a government that is both hostile not only to the sanctity of human life, but in fact also many of the foundational Judeo-Christian principles upon which our nation has been founded. The deconstruction of those values has been underway for decades but this government seems determined to complete that process. Ahead lies the very real threat of the legally sanctioned killing of our elderly and unwell. We also face increasing threat to freedom of speech and our religious freedoms.

Both Jacinda Ardern and Todd Muller wish to lead our nation as Prime Minister. It is a very great honour and privilege to be elected as the leader of our country. A Prime Minister needs to be a person of integrity and we believe one whose ethos includes a conviction that the lives of the weakest and most vulnerable persons in our community need to be protected in law. Unfortunately we do not see those qualities in Jacinda Ardern. Todd Muller commendably voted consistently against the Abortion legislation Bill, yet has publicly stated that he believes abortion is now with the enacting of that Bill, ‘settled law’. We cannot agree. It is not settled law, neither as slavery.

Who is best qualified to reaffirm the value of every human life from conception to natural death? We need a government that is committed to seeking the repeal of the infamous Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and opposing the killing of the vulnerable through implementing the End of Life Choice bill, should it be approved in the referendum.  Society through its laws and social institutions has a duty to protect and nurture all human life.

The Prime Minister who presents as charming, attractive and likeable was the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 that declares that it is no longer a crime to kill a child before birth and permits women to kill their children effectively for any reason, up to birth. She also opposed eight pro-life amendments that would have given increased legal protection for women and their unborn. These included protection for children with disabilities including Down syndrome, who may now be violently murdered up to birth. She also supported and voted in favour of the End of Life Choice Act and the the referendum which if passed, will permit doctors killing their patients or assisting in their suicide. Jacinda Ardern also supported the first reading of this legislation, that would have enabled the killing of the disabled.

We believe that these actions alone disqualify her on moral grounds from being New Zealand’s leader.

Todd Muller is committed to protecting the lives of every member of the human family from conception to natural death. He has a commendable 100% voting record in defending life. He opposed the anti-life Abortion Legislation Bill and the End of Life Choice Bill. It is however disappointing that he never took a call to speak up in defence of the right to life of the unborn in the abortion debate. Neither did he speak up in defence of the vulnerable in the euthanasia debate. It is hoped that should he become Prime Minister that he will accept the responsibility of providing leadership in defending the lives of the vulnerable in our community. He who remains silent in the face of attacks on the right to life of the voiceless shares the guilt of the oppressor.

Right to Life believes that there is no place in our Parliament for those who are not committed to protecting the lives of every member in our community from conception to natural death. We believe that the Jacinda Ardern Labour led government is a continuing threat to the vulnerable in our community. This is not the great Labour Party of Michael Joseph Savage that was founded on a commitment to social justice and a profound respect for the right to life of every individual from conception.

Right to Life encourages the electorate to elect at the next election a Prime Minister and Parliament who are committed to protect the right to life of every member of our human family and to vote No at the referendum on euthanasia.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Authorised by Paul Ives, 22C McBrattneys Rd, Dallington, Christchurch 8061

Why Does the Prime Minister Refuse to be Accountable?

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Media Release Monday 1st June 2020

The Prime Minister made a commitment after the 2017 election that New Zealand would have the most accountable and transparent government we have ever seen.

However this Labour led government has proven to be one of the most unaccountable and nontransparent governments we have ever seen.

Right to Life has written to the Prime Minister on four separate occasions to ask her to answer our questions on key life issues. We have either received no response or unsatisfactory one line answers.

Right to Life believes that we must protect our Parliamentary democracy, lest we lose it.  When the Prime Minister or any Member of Parliament exercises their right to speak or vote in our Parliament on legislation, they are performing a public duty. It is recorded in Hansard for all to see, indeed for posterity and its a matter of public record.

We believe that the public have an absolute right to ask the Prime Minister and other Members of Parliament (and receive answers regarding their reasons) as to their reasons for voting for or  against legislation brought to Parliament. Those who govern, do so with the permission of the electorate. If the Prime Minister is not prepared to be transparent and accountable, why is she expecting us to give her permission to govern us for a further term?

On 10 March 2020, Jacinda Ardern voted against the eight pro-life amendments to the Abortion Legislation Act that would provide increased protection to women and their unborn. One amendment, that of Simon O’Connor, would have provided appropriate medical care to a child born alive in a late term abortion. Another amendment, that of Agnes Loheni, would have given pain relief prior to an abortion to a child of post 20 weeks to avoid its suffering pain while being violently dismembered in the womb. We asked her on 13th March 2020 if she would please advise us why she voted against these compassionate amendments; there was no reply.

Right to Life also wrote twice to the other 68 MPs who voted for the Bill, comprising 36 Labour, 20 National, two NZ First, eight Greens, one ACT and one Independent. They were asked why they voted against the pro-life amendments; None replied except Louisa Wall.

Right to Life also asked Jacinda Ardern for the following important information:-
On 6th January 2020, if she would support our Society’s campaign for women’s equality by supporting the right of women to be born; there was no reply.

On 14 February 2020, under the Official Information Act, we asked the Prime Minister “if she had a policy to support a replacement birth rate of 2.1 (necessary to demographically maintain a natural population), or better and are you committed to implementing policies that will achieve a replacement birth rate of 2.1.” Her Chief of Staff advised that, “the Prime Minister had no such policies.”

Right to Life asked Jacinda Ardern on 21st April 2020, under the Official Information Act, “What medical or biological evidence do you have that the unborn child is not a human being with a right to life until it is born?” She refused to answer and referred our request to the Ministry of Justice.

Why then is it, that Jacinda Ardern has consistently refused respectful requests from Right to Life for information on her policies and actions.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

These 34 New Zealand Organisations Supported the Abortion Legislation Bill

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Back in mid February 2020 prior to the passing of Jacinda Ardern’s Abortion Legislation Bill, NZ Family Planning (NZFP) sent a letter (see below), to all our MP’s in support of the Bill. It was signed by the leaders of 34 prominent national and regional organisations, many representing women.

Right to Life seriously questions whether the decision to sign this letter by their organisational heads is representative of the views of the majority of members actually working in many of the professions represented by them. Take for example the fact that one of the signatories to the letter was Allison Eddy, the CEO of the NZ College of Midwives. Right to Life doubts that the majority of Midwives in New Zealand would support their being required, as would appear to be the case under the new law, to not just be involved with, but rather to actually perform medical and surgical abortions. We think most New Zealanders, when they discover this, will find it abhorrent. Midwives are the guardians of life not purveyors of death.

Do the majority of members of the NZ Council of Women support our new laws which effectively allow abortion on demand up to birth? Again we have major doubts.

Right to Life urges those who value our unborn children to take action by contacting their MP to express concern about the provisions of this extreme bill. As we get nearer the election it is important that all those who uphold innocent human life do all they can to raise awareness and to push back on the encroaching culture of death.

Chris O’Brien

President Right to Life

The letter reads..

Dear (MP),

As organisations and services working for the health, safety, rights, and wellbeing of New Zealanders, we strongly support the passage of the Abortion Legislation Bill.

At its core, this Bill is about supporting women and pregnant people’s autonomy, dignity and wellbeing.

A woman knows what makes sense for her health, her body and her future. She should be enabled to control her healthcare decisions. Health professionals must be able to provide their patients with the best care possible without unnecessary barriers.

Our current abortion laws – unchanged since 1977 – are out of date and not fit for purpose. They create unacceptable barriers to healthcare access; and in doing so increase the distress, delay and financial burden faced by someone who seeks to end a pregnancy. They also result in inequitable access to timely abortion services, particularly for women living in rural areas, people who already have limited access to healthcare, and people who are affected by physical and sexual violence.

We write to record our strong and united support for the Abortion Legislation Bill as a sensible framework for safe, legal and compassionate access to abortion care.

As the Members of Parliament who will determine whether or not this Bill becomes law, we urge you to vote yes for a more compassionate healthcare system in New Zealand.

Signatories:

  1. Family Planning – Jackie Edmond, Chief Executive
  2. Te Wh?riki Takapou – Dr Alison Green, Chief Executive
  3. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) – Dr Celia Devenish, Chair Te K?hui Oranga ? Nuku and Dr John Tait, Vice President
  4. Abortion Providers Group Aotearoa New Zealand (APGANZ)
  5. Te Ropu Wahine Maori Toko i te Ora Maori Women’s Welfare League Inc – Prue Kapua, National President
  6. New Zealand College of Sexual and Reproductive Health – Dr Jo Lambert, Deputy Chair
  7. Medical Sexual Assault Clinicians Aotearoa (MEDSAC) – Dr Min Lo, Chairperson
  8. New Zealand College of Midwives / Te K?reti o ng? Kaiwhakawh?nau ki Aotearoa – Alison Eddy, Chief Executive
  9. New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) – Memo Musa, Chief Executive
  10. Women’s Refuge – Dr Ang Jury, Chief Executive
  11. Women’s Health Action – Isis McKay, General Manager
  12. Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (ALRANZ) – Terry Bellamak, President
  13. National Council of Women New Zealand (NCWNZ) – Lisa Lawrence, President
  14. Ara Taiohi, Matekino Marshall (Kaihaut?)
  15. Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW)– Lucy Sandford-Reed, Chief Executive
  16. New Zealand Women’s Law Journal — Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a ng? W?hine – Josie Te Rata, Editor-in-Chief
  17. Wellington Women Lawyers’ Association – Steph Dyhrberg, Convenor
  18. Korowai Youth Well-Being Trust (running the 298 Youth One Stop Shop) – Dame Sue Bagshaw DNZM, Chair
  19. The Collaborative Trust – Steve Langley, Chair
  20. UNICEF New Zealand – Vivien Maidaborn, Executive Director
  21. Amnesty International Aotearoa – Meg de Ronde, Executive Director
  22. New Zealand Prostitutes Collective – Dame Catherine Healy DNZM, National Co-ordinator
  23. Public Health Association of New Zealand, K?hui Hauora T?matanui – Dr Prudence Stone, Chief Executive
  24. New Zealand AIDS Foundation – Jason Myers, Chief Executive
  25. Positive Women Inc. – Jane Bruning ONZM, National Coordinator
  26. Social Workers for Choice – Liz Beddoe, Professor of Social Work
  27. UN Women Aotearoa New Zealand – Suzanne McNabb, President
  28. Pacific Women’s Watch New Zealand – Mrs Denise Te Tuhi Ewe, Chair
  29. New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Women’s Council – Rachel Mackintosh, CTU Vice President
  30. Federation of Women’s Health Councils Aotearoa New Zealand – Barbara Robson and Barbara Holland, Co-convenors
  31. New Zealand Association of Counsellors – Christine Macfarlane, President
  32. Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand – Shaun Robinson, Chief Executive, and Zoe Aroha Hawke, Manager, Policy & Advocacy, Community Engagement & Health Promotion
  33. New Zealand Sexual Health Society (NZSHS) Incorporated – Dr Julia Scott, President
  34. Te H? o Hine-ahu-one Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective – Jean Hera, Manager and Community Health Worker

Why does the Prime Minister Want Midwives to become Killers?

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Media Release 23rd May 2020

Right to Life is appalled that the Midwifery Council of New Zealand has now extended and gazetted its scope of practice to allow midwives, subject to education and training, to prescribe lethal drugs to kill unborn children in medical abortions and to violently dismember children in surgical abortions. This is a total violation of the ethics of the profession to protect mothers and their precious unborn.

The web site of the Midwifery Council proudly proclaims, ‘Health and safety of mothers and babies comes first” and “Guardians of professional standards”.

Our midwives enjoy a well-earned reputation as caring health professionals who since the beginning of the human race have enjoyed the love and respect of the community. What greater vocation is there than to have the privilege to care for expectant mothers and their precious and vulnerable unborn children. We the community have a duty to protect our midwives and their professional standards.

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation that is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life. It is an unspeakable outrage for the government to inflict on our respected midwives a direction that they have a responsibility to kill the unborn at the request of the mother. This surely is a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity.

Right to Life asks, ‘Prime Minister, why do you want midwives to become killers?’ The community should be aware that this assault on women and their unborn children is her responsibility as the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020. It was Jacinda Ardern who worked closely with the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little to draft this infamous Bill.

Right to Life believes that requiring midwives to kill the unborn will destroy the profession. Why should a pregnant women trust a midwife who believes that killing their child before birth could be a treatment option?

There will be no place in the profession for those midwives who are not prepared to kill the innocent and defenceless unborn. The conscience provision in Section 46 of the earlier CS & A Act have now been repealed. Those who refuse to kill on the grounds of conscience will be compelled by law to refer the woman to a midwife who is prepared to kill.

Right to Life requests that the government take urgent action to repeal this anti-life and anti- women legislation. We also urge that midwives in New Zealand defend their profession, defend their ethics and defend women and the unborn by refusing to submit to the government’s demand that they stain their hands with the blood of the innocent. They should be confident of the active support of the community.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

“know us by our deeds”- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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Media Release 12th May 2020

As we move to level 2 it is fitting that we commend the Prime Minister, for seeking to protect the lives of the community and the vulnerable by declaring a national emergency to confront the coronavirus pandemic. During the six weeks lock down 21 New Zealanders have tragically lost their lives to Coronavirus.

However we must point out Prime Minister that during this period it is estimated that eighty times as many, 1,680 unborn children have been killed in abortions, funded by your government as a core health service. Each killing was  preventable.

Why are you ignoring these tragic deaths? The greatest threat to human life In New Zealand is not coronavirus but abortion.

The government has been at pains to present the image of a kind and caring  government.  In June 2019 the Prime Minister said that “every single life matters,” -but is that really true?

In a speech early this year she said, “know us by our deeds”

She is correct, we should know her by her deeds. A correct assessment is imperative as she seeks a further three years to impose her agenda of social engineering on our nation.

Jacinda Ardern was the architect of the extremist anti-life and anti-feminist Abortion Legislation Act. She was the person responsible for rushing this Act through Parliament with only a pretence of debate. This act declares that the unborn child is not a human being, does not have human rights and does not become a human being until it is born. It is now no longer a crime to kill an unborn child but in your words, ‘a reproductive choice for women.”

It was the Prime Minister who orchestrated the government member’s overwhelming opposition to eight amendments to the Abortion Bill which would have mitigated some suffering for those who are going to killed before birth and provided at least some legal protection for women and their unborn children. She was amongst those who  voted down every single one.

We believe that the Prime Minister is subverting Parliamentary democracy by refusing to answer questions asked of her by Right to Life concerning the reasons why she abandoned the disability community and condoning the killing of children with Down syndrome up to birth.

It was the Prime Minister with the overwhelming support of her Labour led government, who supported the anti-life euthanasia act, which would allow doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide.

The Prime Minister is the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. It is disappointing that she refuses to accept that the greatest poverty for a child is to be violently deprived of its life before it is born. Is she hoping to reduce child poverty by encouraging the killing of the children of the poor by abortion?

A dispassionate appraisal of your deeds as Prime Minister would sadly conclude that you and your Labour led government are a continuing threat to the lives of the unborn, the disabled, the elderly and the seriously ill.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

 

 

Anzac Day – Lest We Forget

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“Mother and protector of the nation’s unborn?”

Media Release  25th April 2020

Even the pandemic is not permitted to stop the war against our own unborn. The violent killing of children is prioritised as “an essential service”. We have to ask if our fallen war heroes died in vain?

We must never forget the sacrifices that they made in order that future generations may live in freedom and enjoy our inalienable right to life. Throughout our nation there are monuments commemorating their sacrifice, which today we remember.

It is an illusion however that we are now living in peace and are free from war. Today we are engaged in another bloody war, not with a foreign aggressor but in a war against a new enemy, our own children. Why do we feel threatened by our own children in the womb, who are the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family? Pregnancy is not a disease, or an enemy, so again we must ask why has the womb become a battleground more violent than Gallipoli?

Since the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act in 1977, there have been more than 500,000 children killed in the womb in New Zealand, their mothers too are victims of this war. The total number of New Zealanders killed in overseas conflicts, since the Boer War total 96,241. These children were deemed to be unwanted, of little worth. They are unnamed, worthy only of being a number in our abortion statistics. No tombstone marks their last resting place. Their mortal remains deemed to be medical waste to be incinerated in the same callous manner as the disposal of the Jews after slaughter at Nazi extermination camps during the Second World War.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Labour led government have now accelerated this war against our own children. She was the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act which has imposed on the unborn, the status of enemy and a threat to national security. Now who may be killed up to 20 weeks for any reason and up to birth if two medical practitioners consider it ‘appropriate’.

In effect this was nothing other than a deliberate and blatant ploy to decriminalise the murder of our most vulnerable and to coerce women into believing that killing their unborn children is not only ‘healthcare’, but that to do so is their ‘right’.

The Prime Minister is further committed to leading us down a road which embraces killing being a solution to our problems. By supporting and voting for the End of Life Choice bill and the referendum that if passed she poses a threat to right to life of the elderly, the disabled and the seriously ill. This would empower doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide and confuse the vulnerable young by promoting suicide as a solution to life’s problems.

Peace starts in the womb. New Zealand will continue to grow in violence and never know true peace, nor can we claim to be a just society, while we continue making war against our own children and support a referendum that would allow the state to empower doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide.

The government’s proposals are an affront to the sacrifices made by brave New Zealand men and women who gave their lives to defend and protect all New Zealanders from conception till natural death. Our community would honour the sacrifices made in war by repealing the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and voting against the End of Life Choice bill at the referendum.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Does Jacinda Ardern support Infanticide?

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Media Release April 18th 2020

Why does the Prime Minister refuse to advise us why she voted in Parliament on March 10, to oppose appropriate medical care being given to a child born alive in a late term abortion?

Simon O’Connor MP had moved an amendment to the Abortion Legislation Bill that would have required a doctor who had performed an abortion that resulted in a child being born alive, to have a duty to provide the child with appropriate care and treatment. This was the same duty of care that would be given to a born child.

Prime Minister as a loving mother, why would you deny care to a new born baby struggling and pleading for life after having survived the horror of an abortion?

Right to Life wrote to the Prime Minister on 13th March and asked her if she would kindly advise us why she had voted against this important amendment of Simon O’Connor and asked if she was opposed to providing a child born alive in an abortion with appropriate care. We also asked her why she voted against the amendment of Agnes Loheni MP, that sought to provide pain relief to babies being killed post 20 weeks. There has been no response to our request.

The Prime Minister stated in 2018 that she was going to lead the most transparent and accountable government that we had ever seen. Prime Minister, why then are you refusing to tell the people of New Zealand why you voted to oppose these pro-life amendments? We live in a democracy not a dictatorship, we have an absolute right to know.

For a doctor to withhold treatment and care or to deliberately kill the child born in an abortion is the serious and heinous crime of Infanticide. The charge could be homicide which on conviction could result in life imprisonment.

It is common decency to provide care for a child that is distressed and needing compassion and care. The Prime Minister said in September 2018, “If you ask me why I’m in politics, my answer will be simple: children.” Why then would she oppose giving a child born from an abortion appropriate medical care either to comfort the child or to provide neonatal care in an Intensive Care Unit? Is it because she supports the objective of an abortion, a dead baby and not a live baby?

We do not know how many babies are born alive in New Zealand from abortions, the information is not available. We do know that in Victoria following the decriminalisation of abortion that in 2012 there were 323 post 20 week abortions with 53 babies born alive and left to die.

The Prime Minister also voted against six excellent Supplementary Order Papers that sought to amend the Abortion Legislation Bill to provide increased legal protection for the welfare of women and the lives of unborn children. Why did the Prime Minister who loves children, vote to withhold increased protection for women and children?

It is significant and appalling that during the debate of the whole House on amendments to the Abortion Bill the Prime Minister did not take a call to explain why she was opposed to Simon O’Connor’s amendment or indeed any of the other amendments. This silence was perpetuated by the supporters of the Bill who refused to engage in debate and who were determined not to allow any amendment to pass to protect women and their precious unborn.

Right to Life believes that the reason for the Prime Minister’s refusal to support increased protection for unborn children is that like Andrew Little, she believes that the unborn child is not a human being and has no human rights.

This is the philosophy that motivated the Nazi Jewish holocaust, the Rwanda holocaust of the Tutsi and the Cambodian holocaust of Pol Pot. Today in our own country, it is sustaining the State funded holocaust against our own unborn children, aided and abetted by the shameful silence of the media and many churches.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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