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Jacinda’s legacy- 60,000 murdered unborn children!

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Media Release 21 January 2023

Right to Life commends the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern for resigning. The right to life and the traditional family have been under increasing attack under her leadership. Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister must accept responsibility for the immense damage that has been done to our nation under her leadership.

The Prime Minister has tragically refused to accept that every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation that has been endowed at conception by its Creator with an inalienable right to life, that is deserving of our respect and protection.

It is therefore in the best interest of our nation and of her family that she resign. We should also recognise that she has done some good things, for these we should be grateful.

Right to Life believes that she has forfeited her right to govern as she has failed in her fundamental duty to protect the lives of our unborn, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. Those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be trusted to govern the born.

Jacinda Ardern is personally responsible as the architect of the extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which denies the humanity of the unborn child and its right to life. Never before has New Zealand had a Prime Minister who has betrayed women by inflicting the violence of abortion on them under the pretence that it is “a reproductive health care.”

Jacinda Ardern shamefully lied to the Down Syndrome community in 2017 when she promised to retain legal protection to prohibit the killing of babies with Down syndrome after 20 weeks gestation. She voted against the amendment thus allowing babies with Down syndrome to be killed up to birth.  She also voted against the five other amendments that would have given increased protection to women and their babies.

Jacinda Ardern has undermined our Parliamentary democracy by ignoring the 90 % of the 25,000 submissions to the select committee that were totally opposed to the radical Abortion Legislation bill.

Jacinda Ardern supported the End of Life Choice Act that empowers doctors to give a lethal injection to their patients or to assist in their suicide. She is reported to have pressured her caucus to support this anti-life legislation.

Jacinda Ardern is being lauded as, “the mother of the nation.” She has claimed to be an advocate for women and an ardent feminist but refuses to support a woman’s right to life and the right to be born. True feminism is non-violent, protective of children and the vulnerable in society and is non-discriminatory.

Right to Life speaks up on behalf of the more than 60,000 innocent and defenceless unborn New Zealand children who have been poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or been violently dismembered since she assumed office in September 2017.  We also speak up in defence of the thousands of women who have been cruelly wounded and left with a lifetime of grief and remorse from the violence of abortion.

The once great Labour Party that previously valiantly defended the right to life and the traditional family has sadly lost its way. New Zealand needs a Labour Party that protects the life of unborn children, protects women from the violence of abortion and upholds the traditional family of one man and one woman.

Jacinda’s daughter Neve will commence her schooling this year. There will be children missing from her classrooms. Throughout the nation there are more than 13,000 joyful children missing this year alone. These are the children who were killed before they were born. They are the nameless victims of Jacinda Ardern’s government funded “reproductive health service.”

Right to Life wishes Jacinda Ardern happiness in her married life with her family.

 

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Child poverty commences in the womb!

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Media Release 26th October 2022

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister why she refuses to accept that the ultimate in child poverty is for the child to be deprived of its life in its mother’s womb?

Right to Life commends the Prime Minister, who is the Minister for child poverty reduction, for being passionately committed to reducing child poverty in New Zealand. The glaringly obvious fact however is that she continues to ignore the right to life of our unborn, our most vulnerable children. Indeed our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was the dedicated architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, that allows for the violent killing of unborn children right up to birth.

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, does she think she is reducing child poverty in New Zealand by allowing the killing of children before birth?

Since she became Prime Minister in 2017, more than 65,000 innocent and defenceless children have been violently killed in abject poverty in their mother’s wombs, shamefully funded by the government she heads, under the guise of abortion being a health service.

The Prime Minister stated in an opinion article that she wrote for Children’s Day 3rd March 2019, ”one of our goals and aspirations as a government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child, but we can always do more. The way we treat children, says so much about what kind of country we are.”

Right to Life agrees and asks how can she really be concerned about the welfare of children when legislation she has introduced supports the poisoning of unborn children who are then sucked out of their mother’s wombs or otherwise violently and painfully dismembered. one in every five conceived unborn children are killed in this way.

Prime Minister, what sort of country authorises and funds the violent killing of 36 unborn children every day? Why do you discriminate against our vulnerable unborn children?  

Human life begins at conception, at this unique moment we have a new human being, a child, the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family that is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

In 2018 Jacinda Ardern introduced the Child Poverty Reduction bill which had as its objective to encourage a focus on child poverty reduction and provide a commitment by government to address child well-being. This bill was passed in December 2018. There is no provision in this Act to recognise the poverty inflicted on unborn children.

It is the duty of government not only to reduce child poverty but to prohibit the killing of children, both born and unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life  NZ Inc.

 

Jacinda Ardern betrays women and unborn children

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Media Release 1 June 2022

Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister has offended many in New Zealand by misrepresenting the truth in her commencement address at  Harvard University last week.

 Never before in the history of our nation has a Prime Minister stood on a world stage and boasted about facilitating the killing of the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. With a serene smile and a triumphant tone she told the assembled faculty and 8,000 students of her achievements, “we have decriminalised abortion.” The shameful response of the Harvard assembly was a standing ovation.

Prime Minister it is not “we” who decriminalised the killing of the unborn, but you and your government who decriminalised abortion. It was you, who has cruelly denied the humanity of our children and denied their right to life until they were born. It was you, as the architect of the notorious Abortion Legislation Act 2020, who chose to ignore the overwhelming opposition of the public. The Abortion Legislation Bill Select Committee received over 25,000 submissions with 91.6 % of these being opposed to the bill. Prime Minister, why did you treat us with contempt and ignore us?

The theme for her address was, “democratic systems and informed debate.” The inference was that New Zealand is a Parliamentary democracy.

Right to Life believes that the reality is that we don’t have a properly functioning Parliamentary democracy, we have a dictatorship that hides behind the façade of Parliament. Select committees frequently ignore public submissions and the government stifles debate in Parliament as shown with the Abortion Legislation bill and the End of Life Choice bill. The government is determined to impose its aggressive agenda of social engineering, regardless of the will of the people.

The Prime Minister declared in her address, “It ignores the fact that the foundation of a strong democracy includes trust in institutions, experts, and government — and that this can be built up over decades but torn down in mere years.”

Right to Life agrees and laments that her government has betrayed our trust with its failure to protect the lives of our precious unborn with the killing of more than 13,000 unborn children every year being violently killed up to birth by being poisoned, sucked from their mother’s womb or being violently dismembered, authorised and funded by the government.

You called for kindness, yet you refused to protect our children and now you are generously paying doctors to kill their vulnerable patients with a lethal injection or assist in their suicide under the guise that this is “health care”. Prime Minister, we don’t trust you to protect our lives, you don’t deserve our trust and you have no right to govern us because you don’t have our consent.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Christopher Luxon is Not Truly Pro-Life

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Media Release 21 May 2022

THOSE WHO GOVERN US DO SO WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE GOVERNED.

Right to Life requests that Christopher Luxon becomes the truly pro-life leader that National and our nation desperately needs, by seeking the repeal of the Abortion Legislation Act 2019 and legislating for the recognition of the humanity of unborn children endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life.

 Christopher Luxon, leader of the National Party stated on RNZ on 11 May 2022 “I want to be crystal clear with you as I have on a number of interviews with you,” he told Morning Report.

 “The answer is really simple: our abortion laws were settled in the last Parliament. It was a big topic of conversation, there was lots of debate about it, the different positions were presented, and we settled on those laws. And they are not changing under my government.”

National’s new leader Christopher Luxon, revealed that he believes abortion is tantamount to murder during a sit-down interview with Newshub’s Jenna Lynch on 1st December 2021 “I’m a pro-life person, you know,” Luxon said.

When asked to confirm if abortion is tantamount to murder, he said: “That’s what a pro-life position is.”  He doesn’t want to discuss it. “There are bigger issues for New Zealanders to get focused on.”

Right to Life reminds Christopher Luxon that there is no such thing as settled law, Parliament is constantly amending and repealing legislation. The last Parliament chose to completely ignore the overwhelming public opposition to the Abortion Legislation Bill.  There is absolutely no bigger issue than the murder of our children. Only God’s law is settled and unchangeable. His fifth commandment is ”thou shalt not kill.”

Abortion is violence against women and their precious unborn. Christopher Luxon is to be applauded for recognising abortion as murder. It may be assumed that he recognises the murderous Abortion Legislation Act, designed by the government led by Jacinda Ardern, that effectively permits the violent killing of the unborn as unjust and allows for 35 unborn children, the equivalent of one and a half classrooms of children, being taken each day to hospitals and clinics in New Zealand to be poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or to be violently dismembered.

If abortion is murder, how can he compromise his conscience by abandoning women and our precious unborn and declaring that a government under his direction will refuse to stop the genocide against our unborn and the violence against women?

Christopher Luxon aspires to be the Prime Minister and seeks our permission to govern this nation. We make no apology for speaking up in defence of life. We will never give permission to elect  a leader to govern us who remains silent in the presence of the violent murder each year of more than 13,000 unborn children who are the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family.

If Christopher Luxon will not defend life and seek to protect our women and the unborn from the violence of abortion, then we will elect those who will.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

 

Government encouraging Maori to kill preborn – is this part of accepted Maori culture?

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Media Release 2 April 2022

Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up for the voiceless. We will never accept that the killing of God’s precious infants is part of Maori culture or of any other culture, it is part of a culture of death and has no place in a culture of life.

 Right to Life is concerned that the government is endeavouring to deceive Maori into believing that the killing of unborn children is an important part of Maori culture and that prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there was no stigma or shame associated with abortion and that it was the right of Maori women to exercise autonomy over their bodies with the right to choose to kill their unborn child. Right to Life believes that the government is seeking to make lies acceptable and murder respectable.

This information is being given to abortion providers by the Ministry of Health in the document, New Zealand Aotearoa  Abortion Clinical Guideline in appendix A, Abortion & Maori, to help them to encourage Maori to accept abortion as an important part of their culture.

The Ministry of Health states: ”After 1840, the colonising process put an end to the self-determining right of Maoori to control their reproductive health and initiate an abortion. As a consequence, whanau, hapu and iwi knowledges about initiating abortions were subjugated. Maori have been deprived of these knowledges for more than 200 years.”

“The Abortion Legislation Act 2020, in combination with the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, provides whanau, hapu and iwi with the opportunity to revitalise their older knowledges and practices for abortion. The intention is for Maori, in the context of abortion, to enact their rangatiratanga or self-determining rights and mana motuhake or autonomy over their bodies and their reproductive health and wellbeing.”

The Ministry presumably regrets that with the Treaty of Waitangi and acceptance of rule by the Crown, abortion eventually became illegal. Protection for the right to life of  unborn Maori was now afforded by the Crimes Act. The government is now shamefully apologising to Maori for the imposition Christianity, civilisation and respect for unborn life on them, allegedly in violation of their culture.

Missionaries  taught that the killing of innocent unborn children was intrinsically evil and violated the Fifth commandment of our Creator, Thou shalt not kill. If the government believes that it is going to remove the shame and stigma of abortion they are wrong. There should be a total prohibition of the taking of the lives of innocent human beings.

In 2020 there were 13,246 abortions reported in New Zealand. The total of abortions on Maori women totalled 2,875.The government is committed to making abortion more accessible and acceptable to Maori.

Right to Life believes that it is shameful for the government to seek to seduce vulnerable Maori women into violating their conscience by killing their precious child in the womb under the pretext that it was accepted by their ancestors as part of their culture.

The government believes,” that the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, in combination with the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, provides whanau, hapu and iwi with the opportunity to revitalise their older knowledges and practices for abortion.”

Right to Life requests the government to not promote the falsehood that the Abortion Legislation Act 2020,  which permits abortion up to birth, will reinforce a pre-European Maori culture by encouraging more Maori babies to be murdered before they are born.

Right to Life is committed to being a voice for the voiceless and we will not be silenced in defence of wahine (Maori women)  and their precious unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

UN World Down Syndrome Day 21st March 2022

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Media Release 22 March 2022

Government’s search and destroy screening programme results in 90% of unborn children with Down syndrome being violently killed each year in the sanctuary of their mother’s womb. The most dangerous place for a New Zealander today with Down syndrome is in its mother’s womb. The government authorises and funds the killing of the unborn with Down syndrome refuses to reveal to the community the number of these children that are killed each year.

Right to Life shares the fears of the Down Syndrome community, that with the passing of the extreme anti-life Abortion Legislation Act in 2020,  the state funded genocide against the unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome would intensify.

In New Zealand around 66% (2/3) of all pregnancies with Down syndrome end in abortion. Not all pregnancies are screened, however, of those diagnosed through pre-natal screening, almost all are aborted at over 90%.  In Denmark it is 98%, in the United Kingdom it is 90% and in the USA it is 67%.

The government funds a screening programme specifically directed at detecting Down syndrome in unborn children. Down syndrome is a mild to moderate disability. Those with Down syndrome are loved as valuable members of our families and community. When a diagnosis indicates Down syndrome, the women is encouraged to terminate the life of her child whose life is considered incompatible with life. The government has decided that only the perfect have a right to life, this is discrimination against the disabled. Reluctant women are also pressured by doctors to abort the child.

In March 2020 the New Zealand Parliament passed the Abortion Legislation Bill which allows for the killing of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome up to birth.

The architect of this evil legislation was the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who believes that unborn children are not human beings and don’t have a right to life until they are born. Her government believe that women have a right to kill their unborn children, including those with Down syndrome up to birth.

Down syndrome awareness day was instituted by the United Nations in 2012. This year of 2022, the World Down Syndrome Day theme focuses on “inclusion”.

How can these children have inclusion in our community when they don’t have recognition of their right to life from conception? The World Health Organisation recently called for the elimination of Down syndrome. As there is no cure for Down syndrome the only way to eliminate it is by killing every child with it before they are born.

Right to Life believes that this government and previous governments instituted a search and destroy mission to eliminate Down syndrome not by remedying the condition but by eliminating the person with Down syndrome. The Down syndrome community are the most persecuted community in New Zealand. Prior to the third reading, 1,300 people with Down syndrome and their families sent an open letter entreating the Prime Minister to honour her public commitment to the Down community and the nation to retain the post 20 week limit on the prohibition of the termination of  babies with Down syndrome. The Prime Minister callously ignored that impassioned plea.

The Abortion Legislation Committee actually made it clear in their final report on page 28 that they opted to keep this new post-20-weeks provision in place in the Bill so that it could be used for disability-selective abortions up to birth.

The Committee had ignored the submissions from the Down community and the 25,000 submissions with 91% being opposed to the decriminalisation of abortion and abortions for disability up to birth.

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation, who is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life. Our community should be outraged at the government’s legislation to permit the killing of children with Down syndrome up to birth.

The Prime Minister and the majority of her caucus opposed an amendment that in the event that a child with Down syndrome is born alive following an abortion, it was to be given appropriate medical care, this is a crime against humanity.

Right to Life will not forget the betrayal of women, the unborn child and the disability community. We will not be silenced, we will not abandon the battlefield, nor will we rest until we achieve justice for women, the unborn child and those with Down.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Government opposes saving babies with abortion pill reversal

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Media Release 13 March 2022

Government opposes saving babies with abortion pill reversal

Over the last 50 years, the lives of more than 3000 babies worldwide have been saved from being violently killed thanks to the abortion pill reversal protocol.

Why then is the government of Jacinda Ardern opposing the right of pregnant women to choose to stop an abortion of their child to save their child’s life, by implementing the proven abortion pill reversal protocol?

Why too is the Information on this life-saving protocol being withheld from women who are considering ending their child’s life with lethal drugs in an early medical abortion? This is a crime against women and their defenceless unborn.

Right to Life weeps with those women, who in terror and remorse, realised that they were killing their precious child and frantically wanted to save their child by stopping the abortion, only to be told it is too late to do so.

It is imperative that this important information is provided as a fundamental right to comply with informed consent and to help women save their children.

There were 5,349 medical abortions in 2020, with the increasing number of women choosing an early medical abortion [EMA] it is important to uphold the right of women to choose to change their mind to terminate the life of their child.

Right to Life made a submission to the then Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, in April 2019 requesting that this requirement be included in the proposed Abortion Legislation bill, designed by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Our submission was declined, as it was considered not necessary.

Mifepristone starves the unborn baby of progesterone which the baby needs to survive. The abortion pill reversal procedure entails a woman taking Progesterone, marketed in New Zealand under the name Utrogestan, preferably within 24 hours of taking Mifepristone RU486. The Progesterone regimen usually continues for the rest of the first trimester. The success rate for saving babies with this protocol is between 64% and 68%.

There are seven states in the United States which have legislated to make it mandatory that women considering a medical abortion be given this information. These states are Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Utah and South Dakota. The number of babies saved internationally by the protocol over the 50 years since its introduction exceeds 3,000.

Progesterone has been used successfully during pregnancy for more than 50 years without any undesired effects on women.

For those infants who survive the lethal Mifepristone RU 486, there is no evidence of birth defects associated with their mother taking the Utrogestan medication.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Government Increases Chemical Warfare Against Women and Unborn

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Media Release 12 January 2022

The New Zealand government is authorising state funded chemical warfare against our own children. Chemical abortions are an instrument of mass destruction, which victimises mothers and kills their unborn.

The NZ Family Planning Association is eager to become a major participant in this chemical warfare against our children and is seeking government funding to become fully operational in all of its 30 clinics.

The Ministry of Health reports in its 2021 report that in 2020 there were 5,342 medical abortions an increase of 47.92 % over the 3,617 medical abortions performed in 2019. Surgical abortions fell in 2020 to 7,802 from 9,262 in 2019.

Medical statistics provided by the Ministry of Health reveal that 169 women were admitted to hospital in 2020 with complications following a medical abortion. Most were discharged on the same day, however there were 55 nights in hospital recorded. Many women also end up in A&E with complications after an abortion, their numbers and complications are not recorded in abortion statistics.

Right to Life deplores the increase in the killing of the unborn with the lethal murder pill Mifepristone, RU 486 and the prostaglandin Misoprostol. This chemical warfare is very effective, as Mifepristone cruelly deprives the developing human being of nourishment resulting in the child dying of starvation.

The government is encouraging the early killing of “unwanted children” up to nine weeks gestation and is concerned that some District Health Boards are not providing this “health service” which they believe should be more available following the Abortion Legislation Act designed and promoted by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.

Medical abortions further victimise women:-

  • By trivialising the killing of the unborn.
  • By violating informed consent by refusing to give the woman any information on the process of reversing the abortion process with high doses of progesterone after the taking of Mifepristone should she regret her decision and choose life for her child.
  • By imposing an incredible psychological burden on women. She has to accept full responsibility for the killing of her child for it is the woman who takes the lethal drug to kill her child.
  • By abandoning women to take the lethal drugs in her own home without medical support.
  • By failing to ensure that the woman is not subject to coercion, violence or threats of desertion.
  • By leaving the woman to dispose of the remains of her child. This is an appalling psychological trauma for women.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern openly condemns chemical warfare. In September 2018 she stated, “New Zealand condemns any use of chemical weapons, whether it is in Syria or on the streets of the UK. New Zealand believes all states must adhere to obligations under international law, including in respect of chemical weapons.”

It is inconsistent for the Prime Minister to denounce this crime against humanity, while at the same time giving approval for the use of weapons of mass destruction in chemical warfare in New Zealand in a bloody civil war against our own children.

The government is promoting chemical warfare against women and their precious unborn in the face of increasing opposition from doctors to be involved in surgical abortions that entail the violent dismemberment of the child. Medical abortions do not require a doctor and can now be done by nurse practitioners and midwives.

 

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Stop Family Planning from killing the unborn and wounding women

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Media Release 28 December 2021

Right to Life believes that the most dangerous place in New Zealand for a woman and her unborn child is in a Family Planning Association clinic.

 Right to Life is opposed to the government contracting out to NZ Family Planning the killing of “unwanted “ children before birth.

 Right to Life is opposed to Family Planning converting its 30 clinics into killing centres for our precious unborn children. The Family Planning Association in its 2021 annual report disclosed that it was now going to seek appropriate funding from government to provide abortions at all of its 30 clinics in New Zealand, this is bad news for women and for their defenceless unborn.

 Right to Life is  totally opposed to Family Planning being provided with government funding to provide this “service.” Family Planning received $13,842,804 from the government in contracts in 2021. Right to Life is opposed to the government using our taxes to fund Family Planning’s war against women, its plans for our family, its promotion of contraception, sterilisation and abortion, its LGBTQI agenda and its seduction of our youth with its promotion of promiscuity.

Family Planning supports abortion up to birth effectively for any reason; It believes that the unborn child is not a human being and does not have a right to life until it is born. It believes that it is not a crime to kill a child before birth, that abortion is a “health service” and that in the words of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern abortion is “a reproductive choice for women.”

Family Planning is a loyal affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood [IPPF] movement which operates in 142 countries and which was, in 2020,  responsible worldwide for killing 1,120,796 innocent and defenceless unborn children.

The  IPPF was founded by Margaret Sanger,  the notorious racist and eugenics advocate, who said in 1920, “the most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

Right to Life believes that the proposal of Family Planning provides further evidence why it is imperative that parliament defeat the anti-life “safe areas” bill of Louisa Wall. The passing of this dangerous bill into law could result in  “safe areas” around the 30 Family Planning clinics.

This would result in any person protesting outside of a clinic at the damage inflicted by Family Planning on our families, children and communities being arrested and fined up to $1,000. This would be an intolerable violation of our rights of free speech, assembly, communication and religion.  

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Why does parliament ignore public opinion?

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Media Release 12 November 2021

Right to Life believes that Parliamentary Select Committees repeatedly ignore public opinion in their consideration of important proposed legislation concerning the sanctity of life and human rights. 

 The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern told the nation, “that she was going to govern for all New Zealanders”. Right to Life assumes that this included those who made submissions to Select Committees.

In 2019 Parliament  passed the End of Life Choice Act that violates the sanctity of life and provides for doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide.

The Justice Select Committee that had the responsibility of considering this bill received 39,159 written submissions. 90% of these submissions were opposed to the passing of the End of Life Choice bill.  In spite of this overwhelming public opposition the Select Committee did not recommend to Parliament that the bill not proceed, nor was Parliament influenced to vote against this anti-life bill at its second and third reading.

In 2020 Parliament passed the Abortion Legislation Act, which has removed the killing of unborn children from the Crimes Act. It is now no longer a crime to kill an unborn child as it is not a human being with a right to life until it is born. Abortion is now health care.

In 2020 the Abortion Legislation Select Committee had the responsibility of considering the Abortion Legislation bill which received 25,000 written submissions. 91.6% of these submissions were opposed to the decriminalisation of abortion and the passing of this bill. In spite of this overwhelming public opposition, the Select Committee did not recommend to Parliament that the bill not proceed, nor was Parliament influenced to vote against this extreme anti-life bill at its second and third reading.

In 2021 the Health Select Committee had the responsibility of considering the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion [safe areas] Amendment bill of Louisa Wall. The Committee received 914 written submissions, of which 635 were opposed with 175 in support. In spite of the overwhelming public opposition the Select Committee recommended that the bill proceed. This bill is awaiting its second reading.

Select Committees have a statutory duty to invite the public to make written submissions on bills that have passed their first reading. The Committee also has a duty to consider these submissions in making recommendations on amendments to the bill and on whether the bill should proceed.

The community has a right to believe that we have government for the people by the people and that those who govern do so with the consent of the governed. That Parliament will legislate to protect the lives of every human being from conception to natural death and will uphold our human rights guaranteed by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and by the NZ Bill of Rights. Why then do many Select Committees ignore overwhelming opposition to contentious bills that violate the sanctity of life and our human rights?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

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