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Celebrating World Down Syndrome Awareness Day

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Media Release 17 March 2023

Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, who voted for the extremist Abortion Legislation Act,  supports the killing up to birth of unborn babies with Down syndrome. Does he believe that only the perfect should be allowed to be born?

 Right to Life supports the United Nations World Down Syndrome Day, to be commemorated on Tuesday 21st March to celebrate the contribution that those people with Down syndrome make to our families and community. The theme for this day is “With us not for us.” Working with people with Down syndrome to improve their lives. Every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation that has been endowed with an inalienable right to life and deserves our respect and protection.

Right to Life asks the Minister of Health, Andrew Little why  the government continues to conduct a national screening programme to detect Downs and other disabilities. The government conducts 40,000 screening tests each  year to detect the unborn with Downs. The Ministerial guidelines given to clinicians states,” that encouragement should be given to women to make an informed decision.”  The experience of many women is that they are expected and encouraged to choose to terminate their child if it has Downs. Right to Life believes that the screening programme is a search and destroy mission. Right to Life requests that the government ceases this intrusive and eugenic national screening programme.

Those with Down syndrome are valued members of our families. Right to Life asks the government why then is the most dangerous place for a child with Down syndrome in its mother’s womb. Statistics reveal that an estimated 71 per cent of children with Downs in New Zealand are killed before birth following screening. The estimated rate in Australia is 90%, in the USA it is 74%, in the UK it is 90%.

In March 2020 the New Zealand Parliament passed the Abortion Legislation Act, which allows for the murder of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome up to birth. The architect of this murderous legislation was the previous Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern who believes that women have a right to kill, up to birth, their unborn children, including those with Down syndrome.

Right to Life shares the fears of the Down community that with the passing of the extremist anti-life Abortion Legislation Act  the government’s campaign to eliminate babies before birth with Down syndrome will intensify.

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.. Between 2009 and 2017 it is estimated that 694 children with Down syndrome were killed before birth in abortions 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, Jacinda Ardern  to honour her public commitment to the Down community and the nation to retain the post 20 week prohibition of the termination of  babies with Down syndrome. The Prime Minister callously ignored that impassioned plea.

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 syndrome.

 

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Government orders pharmacists to be – abortion providers!

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Media Release 5 March 2023

Right to Life believes that the community should be outraged that the noble profession of pharmacy has been exploited by the government to accept that it has a responsibility to dispense lethal drugs to kill unborn children, the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. If today a pharmacist is prepared to kill the unborn on the orders of the government, be warned that tomorrow a pharmacist may be ordered by the government to dispense lethal drugs to kill you!

The government of Chris Hipkins is the first government in the history of New Zealand that has ordered pharmacists to co-operate in the killing of the unborn.

Right to Life is disappointed that the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Society fully supports its members becoming abortion providers. There are more than 900 registered pharmacies in New Zealand and over 4,000 registered pharmacists.

Every one of these pharmacists on the orders of the government has become an abortion provider. The Society has betrayed its members and the community it is pledged to serve.

Each pharmacist since the 1st November 2022 is legally empowered to dispense the lethal drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol to kill an unborn child in its first 10 weeks of life.

Right to Life believes that the NZ Pharmacy Council, by accepting that pharmacists have a legal responsibility to dispense these lethal drugs, is in breach of its own code of ethics not to dispense drugs that will harm or kill their patients.

The NZ Pharmaceutical Society have developed a training course with five modules to train pharmacists in prescribing these lethal drugs designed to kill unborn children.

Right to Life believes that the NZ Pharmaceutical Society has betrayed its members and its unborn patients by co-operating in the killing of the unborn. The Society in its training programme has reminded its members that while they have a right on conscience grounds to refuse to dispense these drugs, they have a professional duty to ensure that they have the prescription dispensed by another pharmacist who is prepared to co-operate in the killing of the child.

Right to Life protests that this is not a morally acceptable protection of conscience rights. This is a legal charade, that pretends to respect conscience but requires that, in conflict with your conscience, you find a pharmacist who is prepared to kill the child.

Right to Life encourages the community to patronise only pharmacies that refuse to dispense lethal drugs to kill the unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Should it be a crime to pray in a public place?

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Media Release 3 March 2023

A catholic priest and an middle aged women [pictured] were arrested in the United Kingdom in December 2022 for praying silently in a safe zone outside abortion clinics. This is a crime with the penalty on conviction of up to six months in prison.

 The United Kingdom as a mature Parliamentary democracy has been traditionally a courageous defender of human rights, it should be able to differentiate between criminal conduct and the peaceful exercise of constitutionally protected rights.

Isabel Vaughan Spruce, co-director for 40 days for life in the UK, was questioned by police on a Sunday in Birmingham when the clinic was closed. She admitted that she might have been praying. Isabel was arrested, searched, questioned, photographed, finger printed and charged on four counts, with protesting and engaging in an act that is intimidating to service users. Standing alone was also deemed an intimidation. Isabel said that she was not protesting and was not holding any poster and had been praying silently and peacefully outside abortion facilities for twenty years.

Father Sean Gough, a priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham was arrested outside an abortion clinic in a safe area in Wolverhampton when the clinic was closed. He was also searched, questioned, photographed, finger printed and charged with intimidation for praying silently and holding a sign that read, “praying for freedom of speech.” He was also charged with intimidation for displaying on his car a small sign that read, “unborn lives matter.”

Father Sean’s arrest is significant as he was protesting in support of free speech. When it becomes a crime to peacefully demonstrate in support of free speech it is time for the community to rise up in support of our God given human rights, our right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of communication and freedom of religion.

Fr Sean and Isobel were both charged before the court on 16th February, the charges were withdrawn due to insufficient evidence. The defendants could be tried in the future if further evidence became available. Both Fr Sean and Isobel are pursuing legal action to stop this action and to clear their names.

Right to Life fearlessly supports freedom of speech and the right to pray in a public place. If the state is allowed to censor and suppress prayer in a public place we can logically expect the state to ultimately suppress our right to exercise our freedom of religion.

Right to Life believes that what is happening in the United Kingdom should be a warning to what we can expect in the near future in New Zealand following the passing of safe area legislation. We believe that the pro-abortion movement and its supporters in Parliament consider peaceful citizens praying near abortion clinics intimidating and a criminal offence.

Right to Life is committed to actively oppose safe areas around abortion facilities and will vigorously defend the right of peaceful citizens to pray there for an end to abortion and the violent war against women and their precious unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Medical abortions kill unborn children – injure women!

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Media Release 24 February 2023

Right to Life is concerned at the killing of the unborn and the very high rate of complications that women in New Zealand are having to endure with medical abortions.

 The government’s Decide telemedicine Abortion programme, contracted out to Family Planning and Magma Healthcare Ltd, leaders in the multi million dollar abortion industry, are a serious threat to the life and health of women. From 1 November 2022 they provided for lethal drugs to kill an unborn child to be posted or couriered to a woman’s home where she would take full responsibility for killing her child devoid of any medical supervision and help.  

The Ministry of Health which presides over the abortion industry and abortion providers, continue to assert that the lethal drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol are “safe and effective”, in spite of the deaths of 28 women worldwide who lost their lives following a medical abortion since the introduction of the drugs in 2000. A medical abortion is never safe for the child who is cruelly killed by starvation in its first ten weeks of life.

The Abortion Services Annual Report for 2020, the latest available reveals that there were a total of 161 complications reported from the 13,257 abortions reported in 2020. There were 5,780 early medical abortions [EMA] resulting in 76 complications, a complication rate of 1.3%. Right to Life believes that these carefully contrived statistics conceal the full violence inflicted on women.

It should be noted that the Ministry of Health, for the purposes of the Annual Report, only records complications that arise prior to the discharge of the woman, any complications that arise after discharge are not included. Should the woman later suffer excessive haemorrhage, genital tract and pelvic infection or retained foetal remains of her child, they are not included. Women also endure severe pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and cramping.

Medical statistics compiled independently by the Ministry of Health of publicly funded hospital discharges and bed stays of women who have had a medical abortion reveal a different picture. These statistics include attendance at A & E Departments after a woman’s discharge.

In 2020, 169 women found it necessary after a medical abortion to attend A&E for a complication associated with their medical abortion, resulting in 55 bed days in hospital for women with complications from their abortion. 

Right to Life will continue to campaign for the withdrawal of the dangerous Decide home abortion programme which kills the unborn and threatens the lives and health of women.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Government’s war on Free Speech Postponed!

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Media Release 9 February 2023

Right to Life believes that the government’s war on free speech has not been defeated, it has only been postponed till after the general election. It is believed that the  government’s agenda is to control what we believe and say by criminalising speech that they hate.

 Right to Life is opposed to all speech that expresses hostility towards or excites contempt and hostility for people. The Human Rights Act already provides legal redress and does not need amendment.

Right to Life welcomes the announcement of the Prime Minister, Christopher Hipkins to withdraw the Human Rights [Incitement on grounds of Religious Belief] Amendment bill.  It is the government’s intention to refer the contentious issue of hate speech and the curtailment of free speech to the Law Commission for advice on future hate speech laws that would hopefully receive support from the opposition in Parliament.

Right to Life believes that the government’s ultimate objective is to outlaw speech that they hate. It is our belief that the government hates speech that challenges the government’s promotion of abortion and euthanasia as “health services”

Right to Life is opposed to the killing of unborn children and the terminally ill as a violation of human rights. It is our belief, that it is the government’s intention to ultimately outlaw as hate speech, all speech which upholds the right to life of the unborn child and the vulnerable in society.

This contentious bill is currently with the Justice Select Committee that is considering submissions made by the public. The Committee was directed to report back to Parliament by 13 June 2023.

Right to Life believes that this decision is politically motivated. The government is aware that current polls indicate that Labour could lose the general election. The government believes that withdrawing this highly contentious bill will increase its prospects of re-election on 14th October 2023.

The Minister of Justice had previously instructed the Law Commission to advise it on the need for hate speech laws. The Commission commenced in January 2023 to examine the protections in the Human Rights Act for transgender people, non-binary people and people with diverse sex characteristics.

 Right to Life does not trust the Law Commission to protect our right of free speech. We will never forget how the Commission betrayed women and their precious unborn by shamefully colluding with the government of Jacinda Ardern to deny the humanity of  unborn children and their right to life by taking abortion out of the Crimes Act and making their killing “a reproductive health issue”. The Commission meekly concurred with the government that it was no longer a crime to kill an unborn child. Why then should we trust the Commission to protect our right of free speech?

 Right to Life requests that the government upholds our right of free speech by upholding the Human Rights Act 1993 and ceasing any attempt to amend it by introducing hate speech legislation.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Abortion – Why are the churches silent?

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Media Release 4 February 2023

Why are the Churches not speaking up in defence of the lives of God’s precious infants and their mothers? Should they not be aware of the appalling offence to the Creator of the violent destruction of His children, each one a unique and unrepeatable miracle of His loving creation endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life.

 In the nineteenth century most of the Churches were silent about slavery. In the twenty-first century most of the Churches are silent about abortion.

Can it then be said that every abortion facility is open with the permission of the local Churches? Every year in New Zealand more than 13 000 children are murdered in their mother’s womb.

Since the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act was passed in 1977, to provide legal protection for the right to life of unborn children, more than 560,000 innocent children have been murdered in abortions in New Zealand as a state funded “reproductive health service.”

Every day an estimated 46 unborn children are poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or violently dismembered. Do the Churches not hear the silent scream of these children whose cries for life  echo throughout the land?

How often should the Churches speak out in defence of the unborn when there are an estimated 46 unborn children murdered every day in New Zealand? Saint John Paul II preached that we should, “defend life from the rooftops,” and warned, “woe to those who don’t defend life.”

The Bible instructs us, Proverbs 11:12 –

“Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. Tarry not to come to their aid.” If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?”

The response from the majority of Churches has been a deafening silence. Why are the Christian churches accepting the murder of God’s precious infants as part of our culture?  Only the Catholic Church spoke out in defence of the innocent in March 2020 at the passing of the Abortion Legislation Act.

The Churches should be defending life from the rooftops by continually appealing to government to take these steps to undo this great injustice:

  • Stop the war against women and the unborn.
  • To provide effective legislation to protect the lives of the unborn.
  • To legislate to recognise the humanity of the unborn from conception endowed with an inalienable right to life.
  • To cease the taxpayer funding of abortion.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Government’s chemical warfare against unborn children

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Media Release 28 January 2023

The government of Chris Hipkins is continuing the war against women and their unborn.

 Right to Life requests the pharmacists in New Zealand to refuse on conscience grounds to co-operate in dispensing lethal drugs for the violent killing of the unborn by poisoning in their first ten weeks of life or referring the patient to another pharmacist who is prepared to cooperate in the killing of the child.

 Right to Life believes that it is abhorrent that pharmacists should dispense lethal drugs to kill an unborn child. Pharmacists should dispense only drugs that protect life and promote health. It is deplorable that pharmacists are also required to lie to women that once they have taken Mifepristone, the first pill, that they cannot stop the abortion and be treated with Progesterone in accordance with the abortion pill reversal protocol which has saved internationally the lives of more than 4,000 unborn children.

 The government is encouraging all pharmacists to collude in the killing of innocent and defenceless unborn children by dispensing prescriptions of the lethal drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol for early medical abortions [EMA].

There were 4,774 early medical abortions reported in 2020, which was 36% of the 13 257 abortions performed in 2020.

From the 1 November 2022, Mifepristone RU 486, the lethal drug used to kill unborn children in their first ten weeks of life, became available to all pharmacists as a subsidised drug on prescription. Up until 1 November, subsidies for mifepristone have been limited to authorised prescribers through a practitioner’s supply order (PSO).

Right to Life believes that dispensing these lethal drugs for the purpose of killing another human being violates the Pharmacy Council’s code of ethics. Principle 1, demands that a pharmacist makes the health and wellbeing of their patient their first priority.

The unborn child is a patient and the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family that should be treated with the greatest respect by pharmacists and all health practitioners.

The Ministry of Health has advised all pharmacies that choose to  supply these lethal drugs under the Abortion Legislation Act, that they meet the legal definition of an abortion provider and so must appear on a list held by the Ministry. Right to Life has lodged an Official Information Act request with the Ministry of Health for a copy of this list.

The Ministry of Health has also advised pharmacies that those listed on the Ministry’s abortion provider list are eligible to apply for a safe area designation that would prohibit any protestors opposed to the killing of the unborn within 150 metres of the pharmacy.

Right to Life encourages those promoting a culture of life to patronise only those pharmacies that refuse to dispense these lethal drugs.

 Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Chris Hipkins – Abysmal voting record on life issues

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Media Release 23 January 2023

Right to Life believes that New Zealand desperately needs political leaders who are committed to promoting a culture of life, opposing a culture of death and who uphold God’s plan for humanity by respecting and protecting the sanctity of life of every human being from conception to natural death and who uphold marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman.

 Chris Hipkins is to be our Prime Minister and the leader of a government that claims to be committed to practising kindness, compassion, fairness and social justice. The reality is that this government has funded the State killing of more than 60,000 defenceless unborn New Zealanders and the killing of 214 seriously ill patients, all under the pretext that this is health care.

Right to Life is greatly saddened by the knowledge that the newly appointed Prime Minister and his deputy have a Parliamentary voting record that consistently supports the killing of the unborn and the vulnerable ill.

Right to Life  asks why should we trust them to govern us when they are prepared to promote the war against women and kill innocent and defenceless unborn children and the vulnerable ill.

Why does the Labour party which seeks to win the next election believe that the electorate is going to support this leadership and reward Labour with a third term?

The new Prime Minister applauds Jacinda Ardern. “Jacinda has  worked tirelessly over the last five years to make New Zealand a better place for everyone. Her commitment to kindness, fairness and social justice embodied our Labour values.” “I am so proud to continue this mahi.”

Right to Life fears that the new Prime Minister and his deputy will continue promoting a culture of death that supports the war on women, the unborn child  the traditional family and the sick and vulnerable in our community.

The community should be aware that both Chris Hipkins and Carmel Sepuloni have an identical record in voting to support a culture of death and to oppose a culture of life. :-

  • In 2013 they supported same sex marriage, which denies the truth that marriage was instituted by our Creator to be exclusively between one man and one woman.
  • In 2015 they voted against a law to ban street prostitution, believing that women are for sale and that men have a right to exploit women.
  • In 2019 they supported empowering and funding doctors to kill their patients with a lethal injection or to assist in their suicide.
  • In 2020 they supported killing unborn children up to 20 weeks for any reason and up to birth if a doctor considers it “appropriate.” It is their belief that unborn children are not human beings and don’t have a right to life until they are born. It is no longer a crime to kill a New Zealander in the first nine months of life. They believe that every woman has a right to kill her children before they are born, funded by the State. They also voted against the five amendments that would have provided protection for women and their unborn child. They support the right to kill up to birth, unborn children with Down syndrome or other disability.

Right to Life believes that both the Prime Minister and his deputy have a fundamental duty to uphold and protect the inalienable right to life of every human being in our community from conception to natural death.

Right to Life encourages the Labour Party to return to the principles of the great Labour leaders, Michael Joseph Savage, Peter Fraser, Walter Nash and Norman Kirk who defended life and family.

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 which protects the life of unborn children, protects women from the violence of abortion and upholds the traditional family ordained by God of one man and one woman.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

The war against women and the unborn should be the main election issue!

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Media Release 18 January 2023

Right to Life believes that those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be trusted to govern the born.

Justice demands that the war against women and the unborn be recognised as the most important issue facing our nation at the next general election.

The government, the National Party, ACT, the Greens and the Maori Party with the support of the media have betrayed the women of New Zealand and their precious unborn children by colluding to ensure that the state funded killing of children before birth is not an election issue.

Why are women deceived by this government into believing that the government really cares about them when it funds the violent killing of their children before birth?

One in five New Zealanders is murdered in the womb, for any reason up to 20 weeks and up to birth if a doctor considers it “appropriate.” Right to Life asks our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and Members of Parliament, how many New Zealanders need to be murdered in the womb before you are prepared to accept that this is a justice issue worthy of your attention?

The government and the Parliamentary political parties have decided that the critical issues that should be the focus for this election are cost of living, law and order, and housing.

These issues are important, however the most important issue is the sanctity of life and the right to life of every New Zealander from conception to natural death.

Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up in defence of women and their precious unborn children. We, and many in the community are totally opposed to the violence of abortion  inflicted on them and their precious unborn children.

Since the government of Jacinda Ardern took office in 2017 more than 60,000 defenceless and innocent unborn children were killed before they were born and their mothers wounded, authorised and funded by the government, under the pretext that this was “a reproductive health service.”

Right to Life encourages the community to defend women and oppose the violence of abortion by ensuring that they vote only for electorate candidates for Parliament and political parties for your list vote who are prepared to support the repeal of the anti-life Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and the End of Life Choice Act 2019.

 

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Can Christopher Luxon be trusted to govern us?

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Media Release 7 January 2023

Will Christopher Luxon’s campaign to be elected as the leader of our nation, be as a statesman concerned for the next generation, or a politician concerned about the next election?

 Those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be trusted to govern the born. If Christopher Luxon is  not prepared to protect  the lives of the innocent and defenceless unborn, why should we trust him to protect our lives? 

Those who govern do so with the permission of the governed. We have an absolute duty and right to be a voice of the voiceless and to demand that those who seek to govern us recognise our unborn brothers and sisters as human beings endowed with a right to life and deserving of our respect and protection and their mothers protection from the violence of abortion.

As citizens we have a duty to elect a Parliament and a government that is pledged to uphold the common good, promote a just society and protect the lives of every member of the community from conception to natural death.

We would be failing in our duty as responsible citizens if we voted for candidates for Parliament who supported the killing of the unborn.

Christopher Luxon believes that abortion is murder, however he has made a public pledge that his government will continue to fund the killing of the unborn as a health service. This means that should he be elected as Prime Minister he is prepared to fund with our taxes the killing of more than 50,000 unborn children during his first term of office, which he classifies as a health service. 

If Christopher Luxon believes that abortion is murder, then he accepts that the unborn child is a human being endowed by its Creator at conception with an inalienable right to life.

Why then is he not seeking a change in the Crimes Act to recognise that the unborn child is from conception a human being endowed with a right to life?

Christopher Luxon told Newshub on 1st December 2021 “These laws will not be relitigated or revisited under a future National government, and these health services will remain fully funded”.

He told RNZ on 27 June 2022 that ”all  his MPs were united around commitments not to change the abortion law if elected next year.” Is there now no place for an MP in the National party who is opposed to the murder of innocent children in the womb?

Right to Life hopes that Christopher Luxon will be inspired by the words and example of William Wilberforce, his model who said

“Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me” and “You may choose to look the other way but you may never say that you did not know.”

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

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