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“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    

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

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