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Why is the Government of Jacinda Ardern offering Abortion up to Full Term of Pregnancy?

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Media Release 24 July 2021

Why is the Government of Jacinda Ardern offering Abortion up to Full Term of Pregnancy?

Right to Life asks the Minister of Health why the Abortion Legislation Act allows for the violent killing of babies up to the  full term of pregnancy. The Minister, Andrew Little, when as the Minister of Justice  presenting the Abortion Legislation bill at its first reading on 8th August 2019 told Parliament, that, “there was no such thing as a full term abortion”. “Stupid stuff and it would be if anybody believed there was any such thing as full term abortion-there isn’t”. The Minister’s claim is rebutted by information provided to Right to Life by the Ministry of Health  accepting that abortion was legal for the full term of pregnancy. Will the Minister now acknowledge that the Abortion law permits the killing of the unborn for the full nine months of pregnancy and that he will now seek to have the abortion law changed to outlaw the killing of the unborn up to full term?

The Ministry advised Right to Life in May in response to a request under the Official Information Act of the numbers of abortions in 2020 that were 24 weeks or more gestation. The information revealed that abortions up to 39 weeks had been reported to the Ministry by abortion providers.

 The Director General Of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, who presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand, has directed in the interim guidelines that from 22 weeks gestation to avoid a baby being born alive, potassium chloride be injected into the heart of the child to kill the baby to ensure that it is not born alive.

The Capital & Coast DHB advised Right to Life on 16 July in response to an Official Information Act request that medical abortions are unlikely to be available from 22 weeks as feticide would not be available except for severe fetal abnormality.

The DHB revealed that the provision of post 20 week abortions is potentially limited by conscientious objection in the midwifery and nursing workforce.

Right to Life commends and supports midwives and nurses who refuse to be involved in the killing of their weakest and most defenceless unborn patients.

Right to Life also commends doctors who refuse late term abortions on conscience grounds to killing the defenceless unborn for socio-economic reasons.

Right to Life is concerned that Capital & Coast DHB is,” succession planning to include changing its model of care to a nurse /midwife led model with training for nurse/midwife in dating scanning, pre –assessment, counselling and prescribing to be explored”. Abortion will then be for a woman and a nurse or midwife to decide. Is the killing of a child before birth to be considered too trivial to require the attention of a doctor?

Right to Life is also concerned that children with disabilities including Down syndrome are being killed in late term abortions. This supports the government’s search and destroy screening mission to eliminate Down syndrome by killing babies with Down syndrome. These are our beautiful people. It is estimated that 60 % of babies who are diagnosed through screening are killed before birth. It is shameful that the Prime Minister opposed protection for babies with Down syndrome being killed after 20 weeks gestation and was responsible for the defeat of the Supplementary Order Paper 459 of National MP, Melissa Lee, that would have outlawed these killings.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Why are Orca Protected and Unborn Children Killed?

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Media Release 14 July 2021

Right to Life asks; “why does the government value the lives of Orca killer whales more than the lives of our own unborn children?”  It is appalling that we have legislation to protect the lives of Orca but not our own children.

 It is an offence to harass, disturb, injure, or kill marine mammals including Orca killer whales. Anyone charged with harassing, disturbing, injuring, or killing a marine mammal faces under the Marine Mammal Protection Act a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment or a fine to a maximum of $250,000. 

There is no legal protection for our own unborn children. It is not an offence to harass, disturb, injure or kill a human child in the womb. A doctor who violently kills a child by poisoning, suctioning a child out of the womb or violently dissembling a child will not be charged with an offence, will not be imprisoned nor will she or he  face a crippling fine. He will be handsomely rewarded by the state with a lucrative salary. Unborn children are not considered a valuable species. It is not a crime to kill an unborn child which may be killed up to 20 weeks for any reason. After 20 weeks they may be killed up to birth if two doctors consider it appropriate. The killing is funded by the government as a core health service.

This week the community has been moved with heart -warming compassion for a baby Orca that has been separated from its mother and from its family. Heroic efforts have been made by the Fire service, the maritime police and the coastguard to locate the Orca’s mother and her pod. Strenuous efforts have been made by many generous people to protect the baby Orca and to keep it hydrated and nourished with milk replacement. This week the government has been funding the care of this Orca by having staff from the Department of Conservation (DOC) providing care for the Orca.

Right to Life asks;” when the government is going to provide effective legal protection for the lives of our own children before birth?

Why does the government recognise that mammals including Orcas have a right to life endowed by their Creator while denying that our own unborn children have a right to life?”

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life.

Contraceptive Pill – 60 years of victimisation of women

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Media Release 7 July 2021

Women are the victims of the sexual revolution inflicted on women with the introduction of the contraceptive pill in New Zealand in 1961. It was prophesied by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical to the world Humanae Vitae (on human life) in 1968, that the contraceptive pill would increase the moral decline in society.

 The prophetic warning contained in this teaching has tragically been fulfilled.

God is the author of life and all human life is sacred. Contraception has challenged this fundamental truth.

 Moral standards have declined. The pill has increased marital infidelity, fornication, promiscuity, divorce and the abandonment of women who heroically chose solo parenting.

The government is at the forefront of the sexual revolution and the war on women with the NZ Family Planning Association. They believe that the unborn child is not a human being and that it has no right to life until it is born, it may now be killed up to birth. The government should now cease funding the New Zealand Family Planning Association [NZFPA], as it is a threat to women and their unborn. The Association is also the biggest abortion referral agency in New Zealand, they also killed 257 unborn children in 2020 at their clinics in Tauranga and Whanganui. The Association receives annually more than $12 million in government funding.

Family Planning should be seen as a threat to our children and to the family. Family Planning continue to seduce our children and undermine parental responsibility. It is appalling that the NZFPA should continue to be funded by the government.

The contraceptive pill undermines the respect that men should have for their wives. It reduces women to objects of sexual pleasure and undermines their dignity as women and the nurturers of new life.

It treats pregnancy as a disease and promotes the killing of the unborn as health care and a backup to so called failed contraceptives.

The contraceptive pill and the long acting reversible contraceptive are abortifacient and destroy a human embryo before implantation.

The government approves and promotes promiscuity and fornication by funding the contraceptive pill not only for adults but for children as “reproductive health care”. The killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children every year in New Zealand is promoted by the government as a core health service funded by the taxpayer.

It is time for the women of New Zealand to stand up and rebel against the war on women inflicted on them by the government since 1961 with the introduction of the destructive contraceptive pill. Women deserve better than the contraceptive pill, abortion, divorce and abandonment.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life.

Abortion violates the right of fathers to protect their children

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Media Release 1 July 2021

Right to Life supports and encourages men to protect women and their unborn children from the violence of abortion. The Abortion Legislation Act designed by the Prime Minister, violates the human rights of men to protect the life of their child and the welfare of the mother. Human life begins at conception and fatherhood commences at conception. At that moment the unborn child has a mother and a father. It is an intolerable injustice that the law denies the existence of the father, he does not exist, he has no rights. Those who promote the killing of the unborn know that it is necessary to eliminate the father, the natural protector of the mother and his child.

 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 discriminates against men. The Act attacks the family by denying that the father is the head of the family, its God appointed protector.

 The government ignores the truth that abortion inflicts on fathers a lifetime of grief,  sorrow and regret that they were unable to protect their child from being violently murdered by the State.

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 plaintive 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.

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 the State gives her 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 who are specifically excluded from this legislation 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.

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

Government should cease forcing Taxpayers to Fund killing of unborn children

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Media Release 12 June 2021

When is the government going to recognise the right of taxpayers to choose not to fund the murder of the innocent and defenceless unborn? The state arrogantly assumes that we all support the state funded abortion industry, but we don’t and we never will.

It is a massive injustice for the government to force us to fund the killing of our own children in the womb and this intolerable violence against women. The government is arrogant in forcing us to be complicit in the violent murder of the innocent, for their dismembered bodies to be treated as medical waste, to be disposed of at the city refuse dump and to accept the blood of the innocent on our hands.

The government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and supporters of this culture of death claim that it is a woman’s right to choose to kill her child as a “reproductive choice for women” without regulation or interference from anyone else, including the father of the child and at the same time deny the taxpayer the right to choose to not have their taxes fund the killing.

Right to Life asks Jacinda Ardern and her government when are they going to allow the community the right to choose not to pay taxes to fund her government’s abortion industry on the pretext that we are funding health care.

The abortion industry is a core health service with unlimited funding and no waiting lists.

Pregnancy is not a disease and abortions are not health care. Abortion is violence against women and the defenceless unborn, and it damages women’s health.

The unborn child is a patient and abortion is the only “health service “ which is intended to kill a patient and a patient who is well.

Consider the report of the Abortion Supervisory Committee to Parliament in 1988 when they reported on the “current unwieldly system of the termination of potentially normal pregnancies on pseudo legal grounds.”

It is a travesty of justice that tax payer funded abortions take health care dollars away from urgently needed health services that are under-funded. In the governments “wellbeing budget” for 2021 more than $13 million is allocated for the killing of more than 13,000 unborn children and a further $ 5 million is allocated for the transfer of oversight and monitoring from Justice to Health Ministries. Taxpayers have been forced to pay for the killing of more than  500,000 unborn children since 1978.

Women are deceived into believing that abortion is health care and that it is their choice to have an abortion – but everyone else must pay for it.

Right to Life asks why is the government oppressing us by imposing its morality on us by compelling us to fund its abortion industry?

We should follow the American example under a Republican administration, with the prohibition of federal money being used to pay for abortions in the United States or overseas.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Is the Government really serious about child poverty in New Zealand?

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Media Release 22 May 2021

The Labour government’s 2021 “wellbeing budget” is an historic budget, for never before has a government budgeted for more money for the killing of New Zealanders under the guise of health care.  

Right to Life believes that those who kill the unborn and the very sick do not have a right to govern or to sit in our Parliament. The first duty of the state is to uphold the sanctity of life and protect the life of every human being from conception till natural death.

Right to Life also believes that the community should be aware that hidden in the “wellbeing budget” is continuing funding for the killing of the unborn as an essential service and for the terminally ill with assisted suicide and euthanasia.

The government is encouraging us to believe that it is concerned for children living in poverty. Right to Life commends the government for increasing benefits, with the laudable objective of lifting up to 33,000 children out of poverty but asks, how can you really be concerned about children when you callously fund, in the same budget, for the state funded killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children?

Why does the government not realise that the ultimate child poverty is to be deprived of your life when you are unborn?

Is it not a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity for the government to authorise and fund the violent killing of our own children?

The Hon. Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance, has allocated to the Minister of Health, Hon Andrew Little :-

  • $5 million for the “purchase of services” for the killing of the unborn and for transfer of oversight and monitoring from Justice to Health.
  • $11 million for the implementation of assisted suicide and euthanasia and for health sector info systems and advice.
  • Considerable funding will also be provided to the new national Maori Health authority to ensure that Maori have full access to abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

This is in addition to the more than $13 million expended on the killing of unborn children in NZ by abortion.

It is disappointing that the news media are applauding the government  for this budget which promotes a culture of death, under the guise of a culture of life.

The Prime Minister stated on 12 September 2020:-

“I’ve made no secret of the fact that I want New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child. It’s an aspiration I’ve held for a long time. It’s one of the reasons I entered politics back in 2008.” 

Right to Life asks how can New Zealand be the best place in the world when the government approves and supports the funding of the killing each year of more than 13,000 unborn New Zealand children, who are violently poisoned, sucked from their mother’s wombs or brutally and painfully dismembered?

Ken Orr

Spokesperson

Right to Life

Pro-Life Petition on Safe Areas Amendment Closing Soon

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Right to Life encourages as many people as possible to sign Ken Orr’s petition opposing the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill. This Bill has passed its first reading in Parliament and is now before a Select Committee.

The petition is set to close on Friday 30th July. Please click here to sign the petition

Another petition organised by Michael Shaw to Ban sex selection abortion in New Zealand does not close until September 11th this year. Please click here to sign this petition

48% increase in Medical Abortions in 2020- chemical warfare victimises women and their unborn

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Media Release 15 May 2021

Information released by the Ministry of Health to Right to Life under the Official Information Act reveal that in 2020 there were 5,349 medical abortions, which is an increase of 47.93 % over the 3,617 medical abortions performed in 2019. Surgical abortions fell in 2020 to 7,861 from 9,262 in 2019.

Right to Life deplores the increase in the killing of the unborn with the lethal murder pill Mifepristone, RU 486 and the prostaglandin Misoprostol. Its campaign of 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 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.

·       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.

·       It abandons women to take the lethal drugs in her own home without medical support.

·       It fails to ensure that the woman is not subject to coercion, violence or threats of desertion.

·       It leaves the woman to dispose of the remains of her child.

The Prime Minister is commended for condemning 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.”

Right to Life believes that 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 desperately 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

Right to Life asks, “Why is the government victimising women and endangering their health by subjecting them to chemical warfare and requiring them to kill their child in their own home?

” Pregnancy is not a disease and medical abortion is not health care.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

No evidence of complaints of intimidation or harassment of women seeking abortion.

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Media Release 13 May 2021

 Why is the government of Jacinda Ardern giving overwhelming support to the anti-life Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment bill, when there is no real evidence of intimidation or harassment of women seeking abortion? This bill claims to protect women from harassment and intimidation but in reality Right to Life believes that its objective is to intimidate and harass peaceful law abiding citizens praying for an end to the killing of the unborn, for their mothers and for the staff at these facilities, for they too are victims.

17 District Health Boards in New Zealand have advised Right to Life in response to an Official Information Act request that they have no record of either verbal or written complaints of intimidation or harassment from women accessing abortion at their facilities, nor did they have complaints from staff accessing abortion facilities.

These were the questions asked:-

I wish to request under the Official Information Act the following information:

•         The number of written and oral complaints of harassment received from women accessing abortion at your facilities for the period 2019 to 31st January 2021.

•         The nature of these complaints.

•         Copies of those complaints with identifying details deleted.

•         The number of written complaints of harassment received from staff entering and exiting your abortion facilities for the period 2019 to 31st January 2021.

There are twenty District Health Boards [DHBs] in New Zealand. Responses have been received from seventeen DHBs. All seventeen reveal that they had not received any verbal or written complaints.

These DHBs are:-

Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Capital & Coast, Hawkes Bay, Hutt Valley, Lakes, Manukau, Mid Central, Nelson Marlborough, Northland, South Canterbury, Southern, Taranaki, Waikato, Wairarapa and Waitemata,  The Bay of Plenty response also includes the Tauranga Family Planning clinic.

The Mid Central response also includes the Women’s Health Clinic in Palmerston North. The Southern response also includes the Women’s Health Clinic in Invercargill.

This response is highly significant. The response covers a two year period during which an estimated 26.000 abortions were performed in DHB facilities or in facilities of private providers under contract to DHBs.  DHBs log all verbal and written complaints. They advise that no verbal or written complaints were received from an estimated 26,000 women who had an abortion during the two years under review. There are also no record of any complaints being received from staff employed at abortion facilities during the same two year period under review.

It is mentioned that a response has not been received from the following DHBs, West Coast, Wanganui and Tairawhiti. The first two DHBs named do not perform abortions and refer all women seeking an abortion to another DHB.

It is contended that If there were no complaints either verbal or in writing from these women seeking an abortion, that there was in fact no intimidation or harassment of these women.

This information has been given to the Health select committee. Right to Life therefore requests that the Committee report this bill back to the House with a recommendation that the Safe Areas Amendment bill does not proceed on the grounds that there is no evidence of complaints of harassment and intimidation of women seeking abortion nor of staff.

Right to Life believes that this bill seeks to address a problem that does not exist.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

43% increase in Babies killed in late term Abortions in 2020

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Media Release 8 May 2021

Following the introduction of Jacinda Ardern’s extreme Abortion Legislation Act 2020, there were 120 abortions in 2020, where the child was 20 or more weeks gestation. This was 36 more than the 84 abortions reported in 2019.

One of these defenceless babies killed was between 35 and 39 weeks gestation. As pregnancy is considered to be full term at 37 weeks, this abortion may have been performed just before birth. This justifies our claim that we now effectively have abortion on demand up to birth. These statistics are a burden on the conscience of the nation. Each one of these children was a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, endowed with a right to life and created to love and to be loved.

There were 13,236 abortions reported in 2020, 288 more than the 12,948 reported in 2019. This Information was obtained by Right to Life from the Ministry of Health under the Official Information Act.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern loves children and has said that her reason for being in politics was for children. In March 2019 she said,” one of our goals and aspirations as a Government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child.”

This is pure rhetoric when her government has funded and authorised the killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless New Zealand children in the womb in 2020. She is the architect of this anti-feminist legislation and Right to Life believes that she should accept responsibility for the increase in babies being killed, especially those in late term abortions.

The Ministry advised that abortion providers had failed to provide the gestational age for 189 babies killed. This is unprecedented and unacceptable. Right to Life believes that many of these abortions were late term.

There were 28 abortions performed by midwives in 2020. Under Jacinda Adern’s anti-life legislation midwives are now empowered to kill babies with lethal drugs. The government’s objective is to train midwives and practice nurses to do surgical abortions where the baby is violently and painfully dismembered or sucked from its mother’s womb. Why has the government perverted these noble professions that are dedicated to protecting life to professions that are being trained to kill?

It is absolutely shameful that the Midwifery Council supports and encourages its members becoming abortionists.

Midwifery is a noble profession that should be at the forefront in protecting mothers from the violence of abortion and being the courageous defender and protector of their tiny patient, the unborn child.

Private enterprise now also participates in the abortion industry with the Ministry reporting that Magma Health Care Ltd  clinics in Palmerston North performed 901 abortions and the Invercargill clinic performed 400 abortions,

Family Planning clinics reported performing 257 abortions.

Right to Life asks this question: Is the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who is also the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction, unwittingly promoting the killing of the children of the poor, with the objective of reducing child poverty?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

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