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RANZCOG betrays women and their defenceless unborn patients

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Media Release 16 February 2021

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are called to promote a culture of life and not to promote a culture of death. The College has cruelly betrayed and abandoned women and their precious unborn. This is the profession that has the great privilege and duty to be the noble defenders and guardians of the womb. It is their great privilege to encourage and help women to bring their child to birth. They know that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is their precious patient.

The College in a recent media release, “supports moves to allow safe areas to be established around abortion services.”

Right to Life challenges the claim made by the College’s Vice-President Dr John Tait in a recent media release:

“It is RANZCOG’s position that women have the right to access all sexual and reproductive health services with dignity and without fear of harassment or invasion of their privacy.”

“Safe areas are a vital way to safeguard the rights of women accessing services and protect medical staff.”

The College seeks to present an image of care for women:-

  •   The College believes that the unborn child is not a human being until it is born,
  •   It is not a patient and has no right to expect the protection of a member of the College.
  •   It believes that it is not a crime to kill a defenceless unborn child, it is in fact a health service.
  •   It supports the killing of the unborn child up to birth if a doctor considers it appropriate.
  •   It seeks to present the false perception that the abortion clinic is a “safe” place and a sanctuary for women with child, it is neither safe for the child who is brutally poisoned, sucked from its mother’s womb or violently and painfully dismembered, or for the abandoned mother who is seriously wounded.

Right to Life encourages the Royal College to uphold the Fifth Commandment of God,” Thou shalt not kill.”

The College supports abortion as the “reproductive health service” which resulted in the killing of 12,857 children before birth in New Zealand in 2018. This is an estimated one in five pregnancies ending in the violent killing of many of their defenceless unborn patients.

Dr Tait wants us to believe, with the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, that abortion is no longer a crime but a reproductive health service. Commendably he seeks to protect the dignity of women.

Where is women’s dignity in having her womb violently invaded and her precious child violently killed by a doctor?

Dr Tait seeks to protect women from harassment and invasion of their privacy, yet he and his colleagues refuse to recognise that abortion is harassment and a violent and unprovoked assault on a woman with the specific intention of killing her child. This is the ultimate harassment of a woman and the invasion of her privacy.

The College seeks to distract attention away from the violence that is inflicted on women and their child inside the killing centre, by pretending that peaceful and caring people who lawfully pray outside abortion clinics are a threat to women.

They are not a threat to women, as they are there to offer love, compassion and help to coerced and abandoned women in their hour of need.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Abortion Violates the Human Rights of the Unborn, mothers and also of fathers.

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Media Release 23 January 2021

Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, why have you denied the rights of fathers?  The Abortion Legislation Act imposed on our nation by your government violates the human rights of the unborn child, the mother and also of the father. Men and women have equal moral rights and duties and should have equal legal rights and duties.

The Prime Minister, the architect of this extreme anti-life Act claims that the killing of the child is “a reproductive choice for women.” Men also have reproductive rights, this Act deliberately ignores and discriminates against men. The Act attacks the family by denying that the father is the head of the family, its God appointed protector. This is a debate that is long overdue. 

The abortion law gives no recognition to the fact that the unborn child has a father, or that the father has rights. The child is not exclusively her child, it is their child.

It is the Creator’s plan for procreation, that fathers have the privilege and duty to protect both the mother and the child. How many of the more than 13,000 unborn children killed last year would have been saved if their fathers had been permitted to protect them. We can vividly imagine their plaintiff cries for their father’s protection which were not allowed to be heard, this is an unspeakable crime against humanity.

Fathers have no right to be informed that their child is to be violently killed, nor are they required to give consent.

It is an appalling violation of human rights for the government to prevent fathers from protecting the life of their child from being violently murdered.

It is also appalling that fathers are prevented from protecting the mother of their child from the violence of the murder of her child in the safety of her womb.

This extreme abortion legislation destroys the trust that should exist between men and women. How can a man trust a women to be the mother of his children when she alone is given the right to have the child killed effectively up to birth, without his knowledge or consent?

The government is incoherent when it rightly holds the father responsible for providing for the child after birth while denying any right to provide protection for his child before birth.

The Hon Andrew Little, in presenting the Abortion Legislation bill at its first reading told Parliament, “that we trust women.” The inference was that we do not trust men and we want to exclude them from pleading for the life of their defenceless child destined to a violent killing at the hands of a doctor under the guise that he is providing a government funded health service.

It is the intention of Right to Life to pursue this important human rights issue by lodging a formal complaint with the Human Rights Commissioner.

With more than 500,000 unborn children killed since 1978, It is time for the men of New Zealand to rise up and demand an end to the killing of their children, the repeal of this infamous abortion law and the infliction of violence on the mothers of their children.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Why are the Churches silent?

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Media Release 16 January 2021

Right to Life believes that the Christian churches should be at the forefront in our nation leading the campaign in support of Right to Life’s campaign to have Parliament pass the Status of Unborn Children bill. This bill gives recognition to the humanity of the unborn child from conception endowed by its Creator with a right to life.

Right to Life believes that outside every abortion facility in New Zealand there should be a sign that proclaims that,” this abortion clinic operates with the permission of the local churches.” They choose not to hear the silent scream of the unborn being poisoned, violently dismembered and sucked from their mother’s womb, nor do they hear the anguished cries of the wounded and distraught mothers, the second victim of abortion. It is now time for this permission to be withdrawn.

It is an appalling injustice and a crime against humanity that the law should deny the humanity and  right to life of the unborn in order that it may be killed, in the words of our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern as” a reproductive choice for women.”

We believe that many local churches:-

  • Will refrain from criticising or opposing the violent killing of God’s precious infants, sanctioned and funded by the government.
  • Will refrain from teaching that abortion is intrinsically evil and a violation of God’s fifth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”
  • Will refrain from encouraging the electorate not to vote for Members of Parliament and political parties that support the killing of the innocent unborn.
  • Will refrain from teaching that human life begins at conception and is endowed by its Creator with human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life.
  • Will refrain from teaching that the abortion law is unjust in denying the humanity of the unborn child and its right to life until it is born.

Every child at conception is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation that deserves our respect and protection.

Justice Miller stated in his judgement in the High Court in Wellington in 2008, in the case of Right to Life N.Z v. the Abortion Supervisory Committee, that:-

“The rule according human rights only at birth is founded on convenience rather than medical or moral grounds,”

“A legal right to life would be incongruous in such a law, for it would treat the unborn child as a separate legal person, possessing a status fundamentally incompatible with induced abortion, far from modifying the born alive rule, the abortion law rests on it.”

Right to Life commends those Churches that do courageously defend the right to life of the unborn child and the health and welfare of the mother.

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

Babies killed for socio-economic reasons in late term abortions?

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Media Release 2 January 2021

Right to Life requests that the Minister of Justice advise the community why babies of 20 plus weeks gestation are being killed in late term abortions for what we believe are socio-economic reasons.

The Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, recently advised that many babies post 20 weeks are being violently killed in late term abortions for reasons other than severe foetal abnormality, or danger to the life or health of the mother. Dr Bloomfield presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand and reported recently that District Health Boards had difficulty in recruiting staff for late term abortions after 20 weeks gestation that were being done for reasons other than severe foetal abnormality or where there was a severe health risk to the woman. Abortionists are not required to advise the Ministry of Health of the reasons for the killing of any child in an abortion. 

The Hon. Andrew Little, Minister of Health, previously Minister of Justice, told Parliament when he presented the Abortion Legislation Act for its first reading, “The evidence is that virtually all abortions carried out after 20 weeks are because of severe foetal abnormality or because there is a severe risk to the women’s life or physical health.”

This information is incorrect, as both Parliament and the community were misled. Statistics NZ provided Right to Life with information that of the 76 abortions performed at 20 weeks gestation or more in 2018,

  • 4 were for danger to life of the woman,
  • 5 were danger to the physical health,
  • 69 were danger to mental health, and
  • 2 were for a handicapped child.

Right to Life accepts the evidence of the Abortion Supervisory Committee given to a select committee in Parliament in 1995, that mental health was used as grounds to provide abortion on demand for socio-economic reasons.

Human life begins at conception and every child is endowed by its Creator with a right to life, this is refuted by the Minister of Health, Andrew Little and the government of Jacinda Ardern, who reject the scientific evidence that human life begins at conception and that at no stage is it not a human being. This denial of the unborn’s humanity is a legal fiction which provides a smoke screen to hide the war against women and their unborn.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, publicly proclaimed in 2018 that she was going to lead the most accountable and transparent government we had ever seen. Right to Life  believes that the Minister of Health has a duty to the community to explain why it  is considered “appropriate “  to kill a child in a late term abortion up to birth for social or economic reasons.

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

Increased pressure for killing centre for unborn at Counties Manukau DHB

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Media Release 22 December 2020

Right to Life supports the community residing in Counties Manukau who are opposed to having their hospital desecrated with the blood of innocent and defenceless unborn children. The community believes that their hospital should be dedicated to protecting the lives of its patients and promoting their health. Resistance is also commendably coming from senior staff and doctors who refuse on conscience grounds to kill the unborn.

The unborn child is a patient and should be treated with the utmost respect. The community, mainly Maori and Pasifica people , are to be applauded for resisting the increasing pressure being imposed upon them by those who believe that women will never be free until they have the right to kill their precious children before they are born.

The three Auckland District Health Boards are encouraging the establishment of an abortion facility at the Counties Manukau District Health Board [CMDHB].  It is their belief that women residing in Counties Manukau seeking an abortion should not be required to access an abortion at the Epsom Day Clinic at Green Lane Hospital. According to information provided by the CMDHB there were more than 1300 women from its area who had their unborn child killed in a first trimester abortion at Epsom Day Clinic in 2017.

Following the passing of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, designed by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the killing of the defenceless unborn is now been promoted in her words as “ a reproductive health service”

Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not a health service, it is the only medical procedure that has the specific objective of killing another innocent and defenceless human being, the unborn child.

Right to Life believes that the new Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verall who is watching closely District Health Boards to ensure that women have access to killing centres, will be doing everything possible to exert pressure on the Counties Manukau DHB to establish a killing centre for the unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Right to Life is pleased for women and their unborn that few doctors are prepared to kill unborn children after 22 weeks

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Media Release 16 December 2020

The government and the Ministry of Health are concerned that very few District Health Boards have doctors who are prepared to inject a deadly poison into the heart of an unborn child from 22 weeks gestation.

This revelation follows a recent Ministry quarterly survey of all 19 District Health Boards on their provision of abortion. The Ministry directs that for the killing of the unborn from 22 weeks an abortionist inject potassium chloride into the heart of the unborn to bring about cardiac arrest and kill the child before it is delivered. The Ministry advises that the shortage of doctors is caused by doctors refusing on conscience grounds to be involved in feticide and abortion.

The object of abortion is a dead child. The Ministry is anxious that a late term abortion does not result in a live and crying child. The Ministry’s website states that should a baby be born alive from an abortion, “Once alive and living outside the mother’s womb, a baby is a legal person and has the same rights as any other person, and there is a requirement to provide health care in the same way as for any other baby.”

•         “The survey revealed that conscientious objection is a major barrier in ensuring the availability and continuity of this workforce and the services they provide.”

•         “There is also high levels of conscientious objection in the midwifery and nursing workforce for abortions after 20 weeks.”

The Ministry is well aware that human life begins at conception, why then does it uphold the lie and legal fiction that the child only becomes a human being at birth?

The wonderful truth is that the unborn child is a human being from conception and is a non-repeatable miracle of God’s loving creation that is endowed at conception with inalienable human rights, the foundation being a right to life. As the weakest and most defenceless member of our human family, they deserve our loving respect and protection.

The government has directed that the Ministry be responsible for regulating and overseeing the killing of the unborn under the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and the killing of the vulnerable under the End of Life Choice Act 2019, with a lethal injection or assisted suicide. The government is anxious that the killing of our most vulnerable be done under the pretence of health care under the direction of the Ministry. The Ministry has now established a special unit for this task named the Regulatory Assurance team. The killing of the unborn classified as unwanted has a high priority, it is a core or essential health service with unlimited funding. The Ministry is now considering  “developing an employment strategy to ensure staff are committed to providing abortion care as part of their job description consistent with the new legislation.”

Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall, said abortion services are an essential part of women having control over their fertility.  She told RNZ she expects to see continuous improvements in the way those services are provided by DHBs across the country. Right to Life asks the Minister:  how do you promote the dignity of women by giving them the “right” to kill their children residing in the sanctuary of their mother’s womb?

Right to Life commends those doctors, midwives and nurses who laudably refuse to be involved in the killing of our defenceless and innocent unborn children. Right to Life also encourages those doctors and health professionals who have been seduced into believing that they are helping women by assisting in abortion, to reject the culture of death and to use their medical skills to protect the lives of our precious unborn and their mothers.

Right to Life also encourages the Director General of Health Dr Bloomfield to resist and oppose the government’s agenda to use the Ministry of Health to promote its culture of death.

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

Government’s Conspiracy of Silence Descends over Killing of Unborn

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Media Release 28 November 2020

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, has redefined who is human. She determined that the killing of the unborn was to be a “reproductive health issue.”  It is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child because it is not a human being. It becomes a human being with a right to life when it is born. This is a legal fiction used to justify the war against women and the state funded genocide of our children.

This state-funded genocide, as desired by the Prime Minister, is now presided over by the Director General of Health, Dr Bloomfield. He has appointed the Abortion Services Team to organise the genocide under the guise that the killing is a core or essential health service.

The Abortion Supervisory Committee commendably previously produced a 30 page annual report with 11 pages of important statistics concerning abortions in New Zealand, this has now ceased. It is the government’s intention to ensure that Parliament and the community are deprived of as much information as possible to avoid scrutiny and public debate.

To ensure this objective is achieved, the abortionist is required to provide minimal information on the Notification of Abortion form. The following critical information is not required to be divulged:-

•         Many women seek an abortion because of coercion, threats of violence and abandonment, this will not be divulged.

•         The reason why the life of the unborn child was ended, was it done on the pretext to save the mental health of the mother or to prevent serious harm to save the life of the mother. Was it done for sex selection purposes, socioeconomic reasons, or because the child was diagnosed as having Down syndrome, a minor to moderate disability or for some other disability ?

Right to Life believes the government does not want us to know how successful their search and destroy campaign to eliminate children with Down syndrome may be.

•         When a baby is killed post 20 weeks because the abortionist has deemed it appropriate, no information is required from the abortionist  as to why it was appropriate.

•         Whether or not a woman seeks pre-decision or post-abortion counselling.

•         If the pregnancy is the result of rape or sexual violation.

•         Was the abortion carried out in a hospital or was it a medical abortion that was performed at home without medical supervision.

•         In the rare event that a woman dies in an abortion, her death is not required to be reported on the Abortion Notification Form.

Right to Life believes that this Notification of Abortion form fails to recognise the dignity or health of women and their precious unborn children. There is a conspiracy of silence which further victimises women and treats them with contempt. Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not health care. Women with unplanned pregnancies deserve to be treated with respect and compassion. Right to Life has made a substantial submission to the Abortion Services Team on 2nd November requesting that the above questions be included in the Notification of Abortion form. Right to Life is committed to the freedom of information to sustain the ongoing national debate on respect for the sanctity of life and respect for women.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

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