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Doctors refusing to kill unborn children with Lethal Injection

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Media Release 1 May 2021

Doctors refusing to kill unborn children with Lethal Injection 

The Mid Central District Health Board recently funded an estimated $10,000 for an abortion in Sydney that doctors in New Zealand had presumably refused to do, because they did not believe that it was “appropriate.”  

A summary of quarterly reports of District Health Boards [DHB] by the Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, revealed his concern that there were only 4 DHBs where doctors were prepared to administer feticide to kill the unborn who were 22 weeks or more in gestation.

Dr Bloomfield has instructed that for medical abortions of these children that feticide, an injection of Potassium chloride, was to be injected into the heart of the child to kill it and ensure that the baby was not born alive. The purpose of abortion is to produce a dead baby, not a live one. 

There are 4 DHBs that offer feticide, Auckland, Capital & Coast, Canterbury and Southern. Dr Bloomfield is concerned that many doctors refuse on conscience grounds to be involved in the killing of the unborn.

Dr Bloomfield’s summary reveals:-

·       “That some medical practitioners are unwilling to be involved outside of care for severe fetal abnormality.”

·       “Providers of feticide are likely to object to being involved if the abortion is not because of fetal abnormality or severe health risk to the woman.”

The Minister of Health, Andrew Little, previously the Minister for Justice, stated on 6 August 2019, when presenting the Abortion Legislation bill at 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 woman’s life or physical health. And, for the record, let me state there is no such thing as “full-term abortion”. 

The conclusions of the Director General of Health contradict the statement of his Minister. It must now be concluded that many late term abortions are performed, some up to birth are for socio economic reasons and have nothing to do with protecting the life or health of the mother.

This was the predictable result of Parliament passing the Prime Minister’s extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020. The report of the Perinatal  Maternal Review Commission report for 2018 revealing that in 2017 and in 2018 there 3 abortions between 37 and 40 weeks gestation, this confirms that abortions are being done up to birth.

Right to Life applauds those courageous doctors, midwifes and nurses who refuse to be involved in the killing of the defenceless unborn before birth.

The concern of Dr Bloomfield was highlighted by information obtained under the Official Information Act from the Mid Central DHB. It was disclosed that a DHB had sent a women wanting a late term abortion to the Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Sydney. The cost of this abortion funded by the DHB was $8,633.99 plus travel and accommodation costs.

The Perinatal Maternal Mortality Review Commission revealed in its latest report that there were 140 late term abortions from 20 weeks gestation in 2018.

37 – 40 weeks    3 abortions

32 –  36 weeks,  3

28 –  31 weeks   3

25 –  27  weeks 16

23 –  24  weeks 28

20 –  22  weeks  87

Dr Bloomfield has directed that, in the event that feticide with a lethal injection of Potassium chloride is not available because of the refusal of doctors refusing to be involved on conscience grounds, then doctors must kill the unborn in a surgical abortion.

This is particularly gruesome and excruciatingly painful, surgical abortion involves crushing, dismemberment and removal of the baby’s body from a woman’s uterus, mere weeks before, or even after, the child reaches a developmental age of potential viability outside the mother.

Right to Life is opposed to Dr Bloomfield’s proposal to develop an employment strategy to ensure staff are committed to the killing of unborn children as health care as part of their job description, consistent with the new legislation. Our hospitals should be committed to caring not killing.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Newshub Biased News No service to the Community

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Media Release 27 April 2021

It is disappointing that Newshub which has high standards allows misinformation and slander to be presented as factual news. The article “Controversy over abortion clinic safe zones heats up as Bill heads towards second reading” fails to provide the community with information on this important issue concerning human rights.

The community have a right to ask why comment was sought from the lady from Arizona, Terry Bellamak, who is the national president of Abortion Rights Aotearoa. This organisation has a national membership of approximately 25 members. Right to Life challenges her opinions which are ill informed and slanderous, she clearly does not represent the views of New Zealand women.

 Terry Bellamak told Newshub  ” Right now, people are not protected from harassment outside abortion clinics.”

This is totally untrue, the community should be aware that the Summary Offences Act provides protection against any person engaging in harassment or intimidation. There is absolutely no need for additional legislation to address a problem that does not exist except in the minds of Terry Bellamak and radical pro-abortionists who are determined to control and restrict our right to free speech, assembly and communication.

“People shouldn’t have to stand up to bullies in order to get healthcare. There’s no reason why people using reproductive health care should have to do that.”

This is slanderous and hate speech directed at peaceful and lawful men and women who motivated by love and compassion for women, who pray outside abortion clinics and are prepared to offer help to women who wish to choose life for their precious unborn child.

“Nobody knows the stories of the people walking in – not that anyone should judge anyone for healthcare decisions but it’s especially harmful and hurtful for people losing a wanted pregnancy to have people outside the clinic calling them a murderer.”

To accuse a person praying outside of an abortion clinic of calling women “murderer” is simply appalling. Women are the second victim of abortion. We would never ever call them murderer. This is a shocking and slanderous accusation to make and it is untrue. What evidence do you have, why was a complaint not made to the hospital authorities?

Newshub should act in accordance with the highest standards of the fourth estate as the protector of our Parliamentary democracy. They should inform our community that the Law Commission is opposed to this poorly drafted and unnecessary bill.

The Commission in October 2018 in its Ministerial briefing paper,  Alternative approaches to Abortion, on safe zones, advised the Minister; “At this time the Commission does not see a strong case for this.”…”The Commission sought input from health professional bodies, abortion service providers and health practitioners about safe access zones. The majority felt that safe access zones were not needed.”

Why is this information being withheld from the community?

Ken Orr,

Right to Life

ANZAC day – Lest we forget

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     Media Release 25 April 2021

Mother and protector of the nation’s unborn?

We must never forget the supreme sacrifice that our service men and women made in order that future generations may live in freedom and enjoy their inalienable right to life. Throughout our nation there are monuments commemorating their sacrifice, which today we remember. Since the South African war a total of 96,241 men and women have given their lives in wars.

It is an illusion however, that we are now living in peace and we are free from war. Today we are engaged in another bloody war, not with a foreign aggressor but in a war against a new enemy, our own children. Why do we feel threatened by our own children in the womb, who are the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family? Pregnancy is not a disease, nor an enemy, so we must ask why has the womb become a battleground as violent as that at the battle for Gallipoli?

Since the passing of the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act in 1977, more than 550,000 children have been killed in the womb in New Zealand, so their mothers too are casualties of this undeclared war.

These children were deemed to be unwanted, of little worth. They are unnamed, worthy only of being a number in our abortion statistics. No tombstone marks their last resting place. Their mortal remains are deemed to be medical waste, to be incinerated in the same callous manner as the disposal of the Jews after their slaughter at Nazi extermination camps during the Second World War.

The Prime Minister and her government have accelerated this war against our own children. Jacinda Ardern was the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act, which has imposed on the unborn, the status of enemy and a threat to security.  Who may now be killed up to 20 weeks for any reason and up to birth, if two medical practitioners consider this is ‘appropriate’. It is now no longer a crime to kill an unborn child, as in the words of the Hon Andrew Little, the unborn child is not a human being, it has no right to life until it is born.

Right to Life believes that In effect this was nothing other than a deliberate and blatant ploy to decriminalise the murder of our most vulnerable and to coerce women into believing that killing their unborn children is not only ‘healthcare’, but that to do so is their ‘right’.

Peace begins in the womb. New Zealand will continue to grow in violence and will never know true peace, nor can we claim to be a just society, while we continue to make war against our own children and support a referendum that would allow the state to empower medical profession to remove the life of their patients or assist in their suicide.

The government’s proposals are an affront to the sacrifices made by brave New Zealand men and women who gave their lives to defend and protect all New Zealanders from conception till natural death.

Our community would greatly honour the sacrifices made by our troops in war by repealing the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and the End of Life Choice Act 2019.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Is the government serious about Maori Health?

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Media Release 21 April 2021

Right to Life commends the government for its concern for Maori health.

The government has announced the creation of the Maori Health Authority to focus on improving the health and lives of Maori.

Right to Life believes that the new Maori Health Authority will be used by the government to promote the killing of Maori children before birth under the guise that this is health care and in accordance with the Crown’s obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi.

Today the greatest threat to the life and health of Maori is in their mother’s womb. Respect for Maori begins in the womb. If the government is serious about protecting the health of Maori it will institute a health strategy that recognises that the Maori unborn child is the weakest and most defenceless member of the family deserving of respect and protection.

How can the government claim to be concerned about Maori health when it refuses to recognise the right of the Maori unborn child to be born?

The leading cause of death for Maori is abortion. There were 3,001 Maori unborn children killed before birth in 2019. There were 16,788 Maori births in 2019 with the abortion rate being nearly one abortion for every five live births.

These deaths were preventable, since the government was elected in 2017, more than 9,000 unborn Maori children have been killed, authorised and funded by the government that is committed to “kindness”, as they were by previous National governments.

The government has appointed the Hon, Peeni Henare as the Associate Minister of Health [Maori Health] responsible for the Maori Health Authority.

Right to Life is disappointed that the Minister, who claims to be a Christian, believes in the “sanctity of life” but also  believes that the unborn child is not a human being, and does not have a right to life until it is born, this is a legal fiction. He voted for the anti-life Abortion Legislation Act.

Right to Life is concerned that the Hon Dr. Ayesha Verrall, Associate Minister of Health, responsible for ensuring that the Ministry of Health seeks innovative ways to deliver abortion services especially to Maori, Pasifika and young people.

Right to Life believes that if the government were really concerned for Maori health they would be providing more support for young women facing an unplanned pregnancy to help them choose life for their precious child with parenting and adoption the loving option.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, in March, 2019 stated:-” One of our goals and aspirations as a government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child.”

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, How can New Zealand ever be the best place to be a child when you believe:-

That it is not a crime to kill an unborn child?

That killing a child in the womb is health care?

That the unborn can be killed up to birth effectively for any reason?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Government seeks tenders for killing unborn children

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Media Release 16 April 2021

Right to Life is opposed to the killing of unborn children. Abortion is an intrinsic evil, a violation of the human rights of the unborn child and a crime against humanity. It is an appalling injustice when the government of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, imposes on our dedicated health professionals employed by District Health Boards, who see the unborn child as a patient deserving of respect and protection a duty to kill their unborn patients under the guise that it is a core health service.

It is even more appalling when Health Boards are directed by government to contract out the killing of our unborn to private enterprise. The killing of children then becomes a business enterprise with the success of the business dependant on the number of children killed in the womb. It is a million dollar industry that Right to Life believes is potentially worth nearly $4 million in the Auckland region.

Right to Life believes that this business model will be detrimental to women and to their unborn. Why is the government prepared to pay to have our children killed?  

NZ Family Planning Association have previously stated that they would like to modify their 30 clinics into abortion centres. NZ Family Planning is an affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation that promotes the killing of the unborn worldwide performing over one million abortions annually.

The 3 Auckland District Health Boards, Counties Manukau, Waitemata and Auckland, in compliance with government policy, have recently invited tenders from suitably qualified medical practitioners to provide:-

·       Medical abortions up to 9 weeks with RU 486 Mifepristone which is a lethal drug used to kill the unborn child by starvation. Right to Life considers this to be chemical warfare against innocent and defenceless children. Today this is called” health care.”

·       Surgical abortions up to 14 weeks. This is a violent and painful dismemberment of the child with its arms and legs being torn from the child. This is also called “health care.”

·       A non-judgemental service integrated with other women’s health services to reduce the stigma associated with accessing an abortion.

·       A one day service inclusive of scanning, tests, counselling and abortion and the provision of long acting post abortion contraception services

·       The Health Boards claim that they seek increased access and equity for this “health service.”

·       Services in “an economically deprived community and/or [are] linked to one such as through transport hubs. Does the government seek to reduce poverty by killing the children of the poor?

Pregnant mothers in their hour of need, facing an unplanned or difficult pregnancy should be offered love and compassion and life-affirming options. We don’t help mothers by killing their children. It is a bankrupt society that offers abortion to women.

Right to Life believes the emphasis on access to abortion for Maori and Pacific women is discriminatory. We don’t help these young women by encouraging them to kill their children before they are born.

It is not yet known how much the government is prepared to pay for the killing of unborn children in Auckland, however the Whanganui, Mid Central and the Southern DHBs already have contracts with Magma Health Care Ltd to kill children before birth. The fees paid to the contracting company led by Dr Simon Snook for each child killed are:-

Surgical abortion 1st and 2nd trimester $950.

Medical abortion $950.

General Medical First Attendance $250.

Right to Life believes that contracting the killing of the unborn to private entrepreneurs is a threat to the lives of women and their precious unborn. Babies will be killed for profit. The profitability of the contractor’s business will depend on the number of babies killed. Every person from the receptionist, the counsellor to the abortionist would be focused on the killing of the unborn. A counsellor who does not succeed in having women agreeing to an abortion would have little future as a counsellor.

Right to Life asks the government that is committed to kindness, why are you making war against our women and their precious unborn? Please stop calling abortion health care.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Bereavement Leave Act recognises unborn child from conception as a human being

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Media Release 3 April 2021

Bereavement Leave Act recognises unborn child from conception as a human being.

Right to Life congratulates Parliament for unanimously passing the Holiday’s [Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage] Amendment Bill no 2.

This Act is appropriately named for bereavement is a noun which means “loss by death of a close relative or friend.” A woman will have no closer relative than the unborn child that she carries in her womb.

In passing this bill Parliament has given recognition to the unalterable truth that the unborn child is a human being from conception and is  endowed with a right to life.

This recognition was affirmed by many Members of Parliament who with humanity and compassion spoke eloquently of the “child” in the womb and in the words of Ginny Andersen, sponsor of the bill, “I hope this bill will go some way in recognising the need for time and space to deal with the unimaginable grief that comes with losing a pregnancy.”

Right to Life wishes to speak up on behalf of the more than 12,000 women who have lost their child through abortion each year, whose pain and grief is ignored by this Bereavement Act. This Act recognises the loss of a child through miscarriage and stillbirth but ignores the loss of a child through abortion. Right to Life grieves with these wounded women in the loss of their precious irreplaceable children whose pain is denied.

Right to Life asks our Parliament how can you reconcile your recognition of the humanity of the unborn child with the actions of this Parliament just twelve months ago that passed the Abortion Legislation bill 68 to 51.

In the chilling words of the then Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, who with the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern were the architects of this legislation said in presenting this bill for its first reading in Parliament, “I accept on legal and moral grounds the established jurisprudence in New Zealand that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible, and that the widely accepted human rights that we all understand apply when they are capable of being exercised, which is to say I accept the “born alive” principle that guides our courts today.” This is a legal fiction that is not supported by reason or science. This legal fiction supports the state funded killing of more than 12,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children every year, a crime against our Creator, the author of life, a violation of human rights, and an unspeakable violence against women, whose cries of pain and suffering are unheard.  

Right to Life requests that the government uphold justice, repeal section 159 of the Crimes Act and amend the Abortion legislation to comply with the Bereavement Leave Act by recognising that the unborn child from conception is a human being endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Right to Life Newsletter March 2021

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Right to Life Newsletter March 2021

Our nation is facing unprecedented threats to life in 2021. Right to Life believes that New Zealand has the most anti-life government in our history. The government of Jacinda Ardern is responsible for legislation that allows for the killing up to birth of our unborn and the killing of the seriously ill as a health service.

The End of Life Choice Act 2019 will be effective from 7 November 2021. This legislation if not repealed will ultimately corrupt the medical profession and destroy the trust that the community has in the profession. Right to Life is conducting a campaign to repeal this Act and has sought the cooperation of other pro-life groups. This legislation is intrinsically evil and we have a serious moral obligation to oppose it and to ultimately have it repealed.

An important part of our campaign is supporting medical practitioners to uphold the ethics of the medical profession and to refuse to co-operate in killing their patients by assisting in their suicide or giving them a lethal injection. For your protection we encourage you to entrust your life and health and that of your family only with doctors who uphold the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. We are campaigning for doctors to make it known to their patients that they refuse to co-operate with the killing of defenceless patients. Ideally medical centres should display a notice that declares that this is a euthanasia free surgery.

To assist you we have prepared a letter that you may use or amend to give to your general practitioner. The letter may be viewed on our Right to Life web site www.righttolife.org.nz

You are invited to print this letter for your own use, adding the name of your local practice and your own name.

We are also campaigning pharmacists to uphold the sanctity of life ethic by exercising their conscience and refusing to fill prescriptions for lethal drugs to be used for killing patients with a lethal injection or to assist in their suicide. Pharmacists are to be encouraged to publicly declare that they are a euthanasia free pharmacy. .

It is our intention to publicise a list of doctors and pharmacies who are euthanasia free.

Abortion Legislation Act 2020.

This extreme anti-life and anti-feminist legislation came in to operation on 24 March 2020. The Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield now presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand. He is also responsible for ensuring the successful operation of the End of Life Choice Act 2019. It is tragic that the Ministry of Health that should be devoted to protecting the life and health of the community should now be intensely engaged in overseeing the killing of our precious unborn and the killing of the terminally ill and seriously ill. Dr Bloomfield has now created the Regulatory Assurance team to fully implement this legislation.

Challenging the culture of death. Right to Life is constantly engaged in seeking important information on life issues through the use of the Official Information Act .

Since May 2020 there have been 26 Official Information Act requests made to Ministers of the Crown and to District Health Boards, seven of these are now completed. There have also been 7 complaints lodged with the Ombudsman in the event that information requested under the Official Information Act was refused.

Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion [Safe Areas] Amendment bill.

This is a government bill posing as a private members bill sponsored by Louisa Wall MP. It is a farcical bill seeking to address an issue that does not exist. It was passed at its first reading by 100 to 15. The government said that it was a conscience vote, however Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern instructed her caucus to support this bill, as a consequence of the 65 MPs in her caucus 62 dutifully voted for the bill and promote the charade that this was a conscience vote, 3 MPs were permitted to vote against it. This bill is a serious threat to civil liberties. It is a threat to our right of free speech, assembly and communication guaranteed by the NZ Bill of Rights. This bill if passed could result in so called safe zones around killing centres of 150 metres that would prohibit any person praying or offering assistance to women seeking an abortion who sought help.

The bill has been referred to the Health Select Committee at Parliament for consideration and to receive written submissions from members of the public. Right to Life encourages our members and supporters to make a written submission to the Select Committee, Parliament Building, Wellington, no stamp required, or online at Parliamentary Services opposing this dangerous bill. The closing date for submissions is Wednesday 28 April 2021.

Here is a list of the objections that you may wish to incorporate into your submission.

Please also indicate whether you also wish to make a five minute oral submission.

  • The Law Commission, on safe zones advised the Minister, “At this time the Commission does not see a strong case for this.”…”The Commission sought input from health professional bodies, abortion service providers and health practitioners about safe access zones. The majority felt that safe access zones were not needed.”
  • The Commission were also concerned that legislation imposing safe zones would be infringing on the right to freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association protected by the Bill of Rights 1990.
  • The Commission also stated that it, ”has not seen any clear evidence that the existing laws around intimidating and anti-social behaviour are inadequate.”

Right to Life supports the right of compassionate, law abiding and caring people to assemble outside of abortion clinics to offer loving help to women who seek help to choose life for their children. There are many women who have been grateful for their presence and help in their hour of need.

The claim that a woman entering a public hospital for an abortion can be harassed, is simply not logical. How can anyone know that a woman entering a public hospital is going there for an abortion, it is simply impossible. The vast majority of abortion facilities are in public hospitals and it is not possible to know if a woman entering a hospital is attending an out patients clinic, visiting a sick relative or seeking an abortion.

Right to Life totally rejects the false and unsubstantiated claims that peaceful, caring law abiding citizens are harassing women. There is absolutely no need for this legislation and we call on Parliament to uphold the laws that uphold not take away our freedoms and human rights.

The Unborn Child from Conception is a Human Being and a Member of the Human Family

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Media Release 27 March 2021

The Unborn Child from Conception is a Human Being and a Member of the Human Family

On this day, 25th March, we celebrated the miracle of God’s creation and the truth that human life begins at conception. Every human being is made in the image and likeness of its Creator and endowed with human rights, the foundation right being the inalienable right to life.

Being inalienable they may not be taken away nor may they be given up.

Every human being is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation. Every child is a child of God that has been sent here with a mission to bless and enrich our community with special gifts.

It is our duty to receive God’s precious infants with respect that is in keeping with the dignity of the human person.

In recognising the sanctity of the human embryo, we can but behold with awe and recognise the sanctity of the womb, the loving protective home where the unborn child resides close to the heart of its mother as its humanity develops from a two cell zygote during the most important nine months of the child’s life.

Women should be held in great honour as those chosen by the Creator to cooperate with Him in producing new Life.

Every child is precious to its Creator as He lovingly forms the child in its mother’s womb, a masterpiece of unfathomable beauty, not a potential human being but a human being with great potential.

The International Day of the Unborn Child was first celebrated in El Salvador in 1993. It was followed by six South American countries and the Philippines who also celebrate this date – 25th March.

There are 12 nations that recognise in law that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child from conception has an inalienable right to life, those nations are Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Madagascar, Peru, the Philippines, Poland and Slovakia.

It is disappointing that New Zealand does not recognise the humanity of its own children until they are born. This is a legal fiction that is not supported by science or reason. The government of Jacinda Ardern supports this legal fiction, that an unborn child is not a human being,  which is necessary to allow for the state funded killing of more than 12,000 unborn children each year in New Zealand.

Since 1978 more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children have been poisoned, violently dismembered or suctioned from their mother’s womb. This is a grave offence against the Creator the author of life, whose children they are. It is violence against the unborn, a denial of their right to life and a crime against humanity. It is also unspeakable violence against women who are deceived and coerced by this government to believe that it is not a crime to kill an unborn child but in the words of our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern “a reproductive choice for women.” We will have no peace in this land until section 159, “Killing of a child” in the Crimes Act 1961 is repealed and replaced with legislation that upholds the truth that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is endowed by its Creator with a right to life.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Government Normalising and Encouraging Maori and Pasifika Abortions

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Media Release 25 March 2021

Right to Life is concerned that the Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall is committed to making the killing of Maori and Pasifika unborn children more accessible and convenient. Why does the Minister believe that she can help Maori and Pasifika women by making the state funded killing of their children more accessible? Is this the best that the government of Jacinda Ardern, can do for Maori and Pacifica women?

The Minister said,” taking abortion out of the Crimes Act and making it a health service meant pathways to the clinic were far more normal, removing the stigma.” The Minister is deceiving women by trying to normalise the killing of children. Right to Life believes that calling abortion a “health service” is hate speech as it is deeply offensive and insulting to women. When will the government cease using hate speech? It is not possible to remove the stigma associated with the taking of the life of another innocent human being.  

She said,” there needed to be innovative ways to deliver abortion services to women and support the health practitioners involved.”

Why does she believe that she and the government are providing a service to Maori and Pasifika by encouraging young women to kill their children before they are born?

If the government really cared about Maori and Pasifika women they would recognise the humanity of the unborn child endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life. The government should be providing support and encouragement to young Maori and Pacifica women to choose life for their precious child.

If the government were really concerned for the health and welfare of young women, they would be encouraging parenting, open adoption and fostering. There is not one word of encouragement from the Minister to encourage young women to choose life for their child. This government is doing absolutely nothing to promote adoption. Why does the government that promotes kindness prefer funding the killing of the child to promoting the child’s adoption into a loving home?

If the government was really concerned about young Maori women, the Minister would also be promoting solutions to the disturbingly high perinatal and maternal mortality rates that are a cause of pain for Maori. It would also be taking steps to reduce the high rate of suicide among Maori.

As a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Dr. Verrall  is aware that the unborn child from conception is a human being and a patient that deserves respect and protection , why then is there not one mention of the unborn child in her programme?

The government arrogantly defied public opinion and removed the killing of the defenceless unborn child from the Crimes Act and made it a health service. The government did this in spite of the overwhelming opposition from the community. There were 25,000 written submissions, with 91.6 per cent opposed to abortion being taken out of the Crimes Act.

The violent killing of a defenceless and innocent unborn child has been a crime since the beginning of the human race. It will always be a crime, a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity that cries out to God for justice. The government can make as many laws as it likes, we and our children will never ever accept that the killing is now a “health service.”

Is the government concerned that the number of Maori babies killed before birth in 2018 was 2,979 having fallen from 4,250 in 2008, why else would they want to create increased access to abortion and want to encourage young Maori women to seek an early medical abortion up to nine weeks, for any reason in their own home, away from medical supervision?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

United Nations World Down Syndrome Day 21 March 2021

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Media Release 20 March 2021

Why did the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern lie to the disability community that she was going to retain the protection of 20 weeks to protect those with Down syndrome from being aborted?

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

It is believed that in New Zealand 65% of the unborn children diagnosed as having Down syndrome, following screening are killed before birth. This is genocide and a crime against humanity disguised as health care.

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

The Prime Minister, continually claims that abortion is “a reproductive choice for women.” Why then does she allow women to be pressured to consent to screening? Why too does she conduct a screening programme that imposes on a woman her choice that a child with Down Syndrome does not have a right to life and that you are prepared to pay for it to be killed.

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

Down syndrome awareness day was instituted by the United Nations in 2012. This year of 2021, the World Down Syndrome Day Theme focuses on ” Connect “. All people with Down syndrome should have full participation in decision making about matters relating to, or affecting, their lives. Right to Life totally supports the inalienable right of those with Down syndrome to be consulted on what affects their lives.

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. According to information provided by the Minister of Health under the Official Information Act. In 2017, there were only 47 children born with Down syndrome.  It is estimated that there were 56 babies with Down syndrome who were killed before birth in 2017. 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 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.

The Abortion Legislation Committee actually made it clear in their final report on page 28 that they opted to keep this new post-20-weeks provision in place in the Bill so that it could be used for disability-selective abortions up to birth. The Committee had ignored the submissions from the Down community and the 25,000 submissions with 91% being opposed to the decriminalisation of abortion and abortions for disability up to birth. Why did this specially appointed pro-abortion Committee ignore the pleas of the community for protection for the lives of our special Down syndrome children? Do we live in a Parliamentary democracy or a dictatorship?

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation that is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life. The community should be outraged at the government’s legislation to permit the killing of children with Down syndrome up to birth. The Prime Minister and the majority of her caucus opposed an amendment that in the event that a child with Down syndrome is born alive following an abortion it was to be given appropriate medical care, this is a crime against humanity.

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

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

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