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Abortion involves more than a mother’s body

June 16, 2016 by Admin Leave a Comment

We link below to an article, published in the NZ Herald on Thursday 2nd June by midwife Margaret Wong as a response to an opinion piece by New Zealand singer/songwriter Lizzie Marvelly in the Herald on 28th May. on the topic of abortion.

Right to Life considers that Marvelly’s article showed a very immature and poor understanding of the issues surrounding abortion. The response by Wong exposes shortfalls in her arguments. Reads…

Margaret Wong is a practising midwife who has also been a neonatal intensive care nurse and Plunket nurse during the past 40 years.

Lizzie Marvelly is right; every woman should be able to make her own choices. Certainly in New Zealand, we have more choices than in any other time in history. New Zealand is probably one of the easiest countries in the world to get an abortion,

Click here to read the full article at the NZ Herald

Why Impose A Death Penalty On A Child Conceived in Rape?

March 17, 2016 by Admin Leave a Comment

Media Release Wed 16th March 2016

Right to Life Asks, Why Impose A Death Penalty On A Child Conceived In Rape?

Why do many citizens who are opposed to abortion make rape an exception? Rape elicits feelings of sympathy and horror. We are asked, how could you be so unfeeling as to force a woman to carry the child of a brutal rapist? A United States Gallop poll conducted in 2015 revealed that 55 per cent of those opposed to abortion made rape an exception. Rape as an exception has been used by the abortion industry to promote abortion on demand. Many people believe that it is compassionate to allow abortion for rape. It is actually misplaced compassion because it victimises the woman again. The violence of abortion does not undo the violence of rape.

We don’t punish the brutal rapist with the death penalty, nor should we impose a death penalty on the innocent child. [Read more…]

Think this woman should be dead? Amnesty International does

March 15, 2016 by Admin Leave a Comment

Valerie Gatto, Former Miss Pennsylvania USA

The following article, a re-post from LiveActionNews is by Adam Peters and was first published on that website on 6th March

When it comes to the death penalty, Amnesty International doesn’t mince words: capital punishment is “the ultimate denial of human rights.” Regardless of your crime, you shouldn’t be executed for it. How about executing someone for her father’s crime? Oh yeah, Amnesty’s fine with that.

Northern Ireland bans abortion in most circumstances, a fact Amnesty International wants to change. They’re especially upset about how the law protects children conceived in rape, calling it “a betrayal of women and girls.” [Read more…]

UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 25 November

November 24, 2015 by Admin Leave a Comment

Media Release 25th November 2015

Right to Life supports the United Nations Declaration for the elimination of violence against women made by the general assembly of the United Nations in 1993. The United Nations is applauded for its Universal Declaration of human rights and its many conventions upholding human rights. The UN has done much to eliminate violence against women. There is however much that is wrong in this powerful organisation.

The UN bureaucracy promotes its own ideology and ignores the wishes not only of the UN General Assembly but the Security Council as well.

Right to Life is disappointed that violence against women is being inflicted on women under the auspices of the United Nations. The United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA] is promoting violence against women by actively supporting China’s current policy on restriction of children supported by forced abortions, sterilisations, punitive fines, imprisonment and destruction of homes. It is disappointing that the New Zealand government continues to applaud the work of UNFPA and provides funding of over $4 million per annum. UNFPA encourages other nations to follow the example of China in implementing currently, a one child family policy.

Why does the New Zealand government refuse to recognise the violence inflicted on Chinese women with forced abortions and sterilisations? Is the government afraid that speaking out against human rights abuses may impede trade?

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Children should not be put to death because of a health diagnosis and this girl’s video shows us why

November 3, 2014 by Admin 2 Comments

The following is a cross post from the Live Action Website, first released on 31st October 2014.

Click on the photo to see her video

When I was pregnant with my first child, there was a slight indication that I might be a carrier for a genetic condition called cystic fibrosis. But my doctor said that CF wasn’t a reason to terminate – not that I would have anyway – and that they test for it during newborn screening.

CF is a chronic condition that affects the entire body, but most specifically the lungs and pancreas. Life expectancy is currently 40 years old. But according to a Kaiser Permanente study, at least 87% of those whose unborn children are diagnosed with CF abort their children out of fear.

Abortion is never the answer for any child or parent, no matter the situation. In a previous post, I wrote about Matt Mitchell and his incredible life with CF. Now, I want to show you a different CF fighter who, unlike Mitchell, spends much of her time in the hospital. But that’s fine with her.

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Abortion does not Criminalise Women. Why is the Public being led to believe that it does?

August 12, 2014 by Admin 1 Comment

Media Release 12 August 2014

Advocates for the killing of unborn children falsely claim that the abortion laws criminalise women; they don’t. The abortion laws in New Zealand are in the Crimes Act to both protect women and their unborn.

In the defence of women, Right to Life challenges those who claim to represent women but advocate for the anti-feminist decriminalisation of abortion. Their politically correct language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. They betray women by seeking to remove the legal protection afforded by the Crimes Act, for the health and welfare of women and the life of their precious unborn children.

The Crimes Act does not criminalise women, Section 185, Female procuring her own miscarriage was repealed on 16 December 1977. Section 183 Procuring abortion by any means, provides for a person who unlawfully administers to or causes to be taken by her any drug or any noxious thing, or unlawfully uses on her any instrument to procure an abortion to be charged before the court. A person found guilty of procuring an unlawful abortion may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 14 years.

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PhD candidate aims to ‘normalize the experiences of abortion providers’

July 30, 2014 by Admin Leave a Comment

the following article by Pete Baklinski is cross-posted from LifeSiteNews.

Abortion logic always creeps me out. An abortion ideologue ultimately believes it’s OK for women to have their pre-born children killed. They ultimately believe it’s OK for a strong dominant human being to kill a weak vulnerable one. Take what PhD candidate Jessica Shaw from the University of Calgary recently wrote about abortionists being targeted for “harassment and violence”:

However, women have had and will continue to have abortions regardless of their morality, regardless of their legality, regardless of what the foetus may or may not be, and regardless of whether they are offered in safe medical settings, or in clandestine conditions. The need for abortion is present for people in every social class, every region, and every belief system.

Shaw’s piece appeared last week in ActiveHistory.ca. She’s doing her doctoral research on what she calls “understanding and normalizing the experiences of abortion providers in Canada.”

Let’s begin by flipping the tables and imagine if someone said this about stealing, lying, racism, or rape:

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Abortion: One Key Issue

July 15, 2014 by Admin 2 Comments

The following features Greg Koukl the CEO of the Stand to Reason website. It greatly simplifies the issues.’

I want to simplify what some people think is a difficult issue: abortion. There is only one question that needs to be answered to resolve the moral question of abortion. That question is: what is it? What is the unborn? Abortion entails destroying and discarding something that is alive. Whether it’s right or not to do that depends entirely on the answer to only one question: what is it?

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