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Upholding the sanctity of life in New Zealand and Standing Against the Killing

Does Abortion Kill a Human Being?

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Media Release 17 August 2019

Right to Life is concerned that the Minister of Justice refuses to believe that abortion kills a human being. The Minister, in introducing the Abortion Legislation Bill to Parliament on the 8th August said;

“I reject the notion that abortion entailed killing another human being and I accept on legal and on moral grounds that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible.”

Never before in the history of the New Zealand Parliament has a Minister of Justice stood up in Parliament and declared that the unborn child is not a human being and has no human rights and that it can be killed because it is not human. The objective of this declaration was to remove a major objection to the Minister’s intention to facilitate the killing of the unborn under the guise of health care.

Why is the Minister rejecting the findings of the Royal Commission on Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion appointed by the third Labour government that reported to Parliament in 1977 which stated, upholding the status of the unborn child. “The unborn child, as one of the weakest, the most vulnerable and most defenceless forms of humanity, should receive protection. From a biological point of view there is no argument as to when life begins.” It begins at conception.

This is an appalling statement that rejects the humanity of the unborn child and that it is a member of the human family. It denies that the child is the bearer of human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life.

Right to Life challenges the Ministers claim that his opinion is supported by law and morality. The long title of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act states …” abortions may be authorised only after full regard to the rights of the unborn child.” The Crimes Act section 182 which protects the right of the child to be born is titled, “Killing unborn child. If it is a child it is a human being. His statement violates the New Zealand Bill of Rights, which states, section 8. “Right not to be deprived of life.”

No one shall be deprived of life except on such grounds as are established by law and are consistent with the principles of fundamental justice. United Nations Declaration of Human Rights which affirms in Article 3, “Everyone has a right to life, liberty, and security of person.” It also violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which states in its preamble, “The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth.” Why is the Minister ignoring the rights of the unborn child recognised by these laws and Conventions?

Christian morality defends the right to life of the unborn. It upholds the fifth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” The Minister in making his statement is declaring that that commandment is invalid. Why is the Minister failing to uphold this most basic principles of the Christian morality, which is the foundation of our society?

Right to Life believes that the Minister in rejecting objective moral truths Is leading our country down a dark path in promoting secular humanism. In rejecting Christian tradition which holds that morality is something objective and fixed, then what is right today may be wrong tomorrow; all things are subject to change, even truth and justice.

Right to Life requests that Parliament reaffirm that the unborn child is a human being endowed with human rights and rejects the Abortion Legislation Bill which threatens the lives of our vulnerable unborn and the health and welfare of their mothers.

Justice is the foundation of a peaceful society, there can be no peace in our land while we continue to kill our children.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life.

Is the Abortion Select Committee a Threat to Life of Our Unborn?

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Right to Life is concerned that the Abortion Legislation Select Committee represents a threat to the lives of the unborn, to the health and welfare of women and to the democratic process.

The Minister of Justice has established a special committee to consider this contentious and life threatening bill, an action that is highly irregular. There are twelve Select Committees in Parliament. This bill would have been expected to be referred to the Justice Select Committee, why did the Minister not do this?

Right to Life is concerned that this Committee is stacked with strong supporters of the bill. Of the seven MPs on the Committee, five are strongly in support of this bill and the “right” of women to kill their unborn children. Right to Life believes that they have been carefully chosen with the intention of stifling opposition and speedily rubber stamping this bill.

Right to Life is concerned that this Committee is chaired by the Hon Ruth Dyson, who believes that killing a child in the womb is a health service. The Chairperson of the Abortion Legislation Committee, in a media release is calling for public submissions on the Abortion Legislation Bill. She has said that, “The bill seeks to have abortion services provided like other health services. It would do this by decriminalising abortion, modernising legislation related to abortion and better aligning the regulation of abortion services with that of other health services.” This statement is alarming, the killing of the unborn is not a health service. How can Abortion be regarded as a health service when its purpose is to kill another human being?

Right to Life believes that the community should be concerned at recent statements from the Minister Andrew Little. He is reported in the media as saying that he wants this bill passed before Christmas. We ask why is this and why the urgency? This is not for the benefit of Parliament, the nation or of women, it is for the benefit of the Labour led government who do not want this contentious human rights issue causing a problem for their re-election campaign in the 2020 general election.

In introducing the bill in Parliament, Little said, “I reject the notion that abortion entailed killing another human being and I accept on legal and on moral grounds that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible.” It is of great concern that we have a Minister of Justice who believes that the unborn child is not a human being and that it should not be a crime to kill an unborn child.

It is the right of citizens in a parliamentary democracy to be given sufficient time to make submissions on important legislation. Right to Life believes that the Minister has instructed this Committee to restrict the time allowed for submissions to six weeks to discourage submissions and the right of citizens to defend life and be heard. It should be noted that the Justice Select Committee allowed twelve weeks for the community to make submissions on David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill.

We believe that the Minister is fearful that there is massive opposition to this bill and is afraid that there will be another 40,000 submissions defending the lives of our unborn children and the health of their mothers. We believe his action in shortening the expected public consultation timeframe is because he does not want a repetition of public opposition as was evidenced by the 39,159 submissions received by the Justice Committee on the End of Life Choice bill and the 1,350 persons who made oral submissions to it. An analysis of the submissions revealed that over 90 per cent were opposed to euthanasia. It is clear that Andrew Little wants to supress opposition to the bill in order to facilitate the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern’s determination to make the killing of the unborn ‘a reproductive choice for women.”

Right to Life asks; Why are the media, who are at the service of the community not challenging the government on their erosion of our Parliamentary democracy?

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

The Time to Speak Up on Abortion is Now

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The following post is a guest post by Pro-life writer Lydia Mead. Lydia sets and example to all of us by writing one of the first submissions to the Special Select Committee now set up to consider the government’s Abortion Legislation Act. The government has decided that public submissions to this act will only be for another month. This in itself is a major cause for concern given the seriousness implications of this Act, which effectively provides for abortion up to birth. Let us follow her example in speaking out in defence of our innocent unborn by making a submission as soon as possible.

Here’s the link to make your submission: https://www.parliament.nz/…/52SCA…/abortion-legislation-bill

Your submission matters. The numbers matter. Make your submission even if it’s just two sentences. Now is your time to take a stand. Lydia’s post reads…

To whom it may concern,

I strongly oppose decriminalisation of abortion, for the following reasons.

1) The Bill of Rights 1961 and The Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion Act 1977 protects the life of the unborn child. I disagree that either of these legislations are archaic and need to be updated to reflect current malpractice. The Bill of Rights and the CSA Act protect the unborn child and recognise it for what it is – a human being, and a particularly vulnerable human being with no one to speak for or defend it except for the law. When these acts were codified, the information from science and from ultrasound imaging made the fact of the unborn child being human and very much alive an incontravertible truth. In 2019, there is much more information regarding who the unborn child is – they are simply who we all have been, passing through a stage we all must go through. 3D and 4D imaging of the unborn child, and the breakthroughs in life-saving treatment in hospitals to care for babies as young as 22 weeks+ who now have a strong chance of surviving – these are developments that should cause us to reflect on what it is we are doing if we take away every single protection of the unborn child.

2) That this law would allow a baby to be aborted up to birth. I have read the information on the government website regarding this law and I understand that: Any of the 3 models as laid out in the draft abortion bill (as of 08/08/2019) is unthinkable because the unborn child is not recognised as a party that will be impacted by the decision of the mother and/or physician. Any of these 3 models will allow for abortion up to birth for any reason – the only possible provision being, that a physician may be required to first consider the mother’s physical and mental health and general wellbeing. This consideration is highly vague and gives the physician no strong legal mandate to prevent a woman procuring an abortion.

2)a The argument might be made, that only a small percentage of abortions are performed after the 22 week of pregnancy, and so there would be no increase in the occurrence of late term abortions. However, when the government takes the provision of abortion out of the Crimes Act it promotes within society the feeling that there is nothing else to be considered except how the woman feels about the pregnancy and her wellbeing. Concurrently, the Government intends to make us all feel better about abortion. If the Government says abortion is not a crime and it’s just healthcare, then increasingly we’ll adapt our thinking to match this brave new world. The reason that abortion was dealt with in the criminal code in 1961 and 1977 was because it was rightly understood that there was more than one party in an abortion, and that the abortion would end the life of the child. To treat abortion as a healthcare issue denies the existence of the unborn child as an affected party. Abortion even in early stages used to be considered unthinkable to the greater population. The more abortion is procured in the decades following these acts, and the more our friends and family have abortions, the more that we regard abortion as an unfortunate necessity.

3) Abortion always stops a beating human heart. Scientifically this is incontravertible. We now know that a medical abortion always kills a child.

4) The bill has ignored the involvement of another legitimate party in the abortion: the father. In the current bill, the unborn child has been abandoned by everyone: its mother, its father, and the law. It has absolutely no legal protection, and its father has no legal recognition as such. It is unthinkable that the father of a child can do absolutely nothing to stop his child being killed.

5) The bill seeks to discriminate against potential medical employees. If you are qualified and applying for a medical position but disagree with abortion, an employer may reject your application on the basis of your conscientious objection if they think that your objection will cause disruption to their activities.

6) The bill discriminates against anyone else with a conscientious objection to abortion who seeks to give help to women going to an abortion clinic within a 150 metre zone of the abortion facility. The unborn child is then even more abandoned – by its mother, father, legal protection and finally a last possible saviour in the form of a caring sidewalk counselor. People who gather around an abortion facility do not do so to threaten or intimidate women. They care about women, and they care about unborn children, and they extend support to women going through a difficult time. The reason the come to the abortion facilities is because they love the women and do not want them not to go through with something that will hurt them and destroy their children.

My recommendations:
Please reconsider that our abortion law needs to be reformed to meet current practice. If abortion provision is removed from the Crimes Act and transferred to the medical world, it will strip the unborn child of every legal protection and allow for our future new kiwis to be killed up to birth. Please consider that it is vital for the unborn child to have legal recognition, in the exact same way as it is vital for every New Zealander to have legal recognition and protection. For this to continue, abortion MUST be regulated by the crimes act.

Lydia is also a guest writer for Right to Life and you can see her previous posts here  and here. 

Abortion – Man’s Inhumanity to Women

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Media Release 8 August 2019

The Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, at the direction of the Prime Minister has produced the Abortion Legislation bill which rejects the findings of the Royal Commission and consolidates the government authorised and funded genocide against our own children.

The Abortion Legislation Bill represents man’s inhumanity towards women and is for the benefit of men who are not prepared to accept responsibility for the children they father. Women are the victims of the so called sexual revolution. A nation that kills its own children has no future.

The unborn child is the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family. Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, it should be received with the dignity due to the human person.

The Royal Commission on Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion  in its report to Parliament in 1977 stated, upholding the status of the unborn child. “The unborn child, as one of the weakest, the most vulnerable and most defenceless forms of humanity, should receive protection. From a biological point of view there is no argument as to when life begins. Evidence was given to us by eminent scientists from all over the world. None of them suggested that human life begins at any other time than at conception”

The bill denies the irrefutable truth that the unborn child is a human being deserving of our respect and our protection. Having denied the humanity of the child it then denies the human rights of the child. Having achieved these objectives should this bill be passed it would  no longer be a crime to kill the child.

The Labour led government has shamefully and faithfully followed the example of the Nazi regime that before it launched  genocide against the Jews first legislated to deny the humanity of the Jews and then to deny their human rights.

If we cannot learn from history, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. The bill repeals the long title of the CS&A Act which directed that “abortions may be authorised only after full regard of the rights of the unborn child”

It is a serious crime to kill an innocent human being including unborn children, this is the foundation of the law and of medicine. It is a great injustice and a crime against humanity for the government to declare that it is not a crime to kill an unborn child. It is also a great injustice for the government to withdraw its protection of vulnerable women from the violence of abortion, women who are often exploited, coerced and abandoned.

Right to Life believes that this bill which seeks to establish a right to kill the unborn child for any reason will ultimately result in a duty to kill the child with forced abortions for pregnancies not authorised by the state.

Right to Life calls upon Parliament to protect women and their precious unborn by voting to defeat this unjust bill it at its first reading.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Jacinda’s Abortion Bill Promotes Increased Violence on Women and the Unborn

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Media Release Sunday 4th August

Right to Life has learned through Newshub tonight that Jacinda’s Abortion Bill will be publicly released tomorrow. In a ‘news’ article which may as well be a promotional piece for those promoting abortion law reform Newshub’s Tova O’Brien gives us her personal pro-abortion views on the matter. In spite of the media spin this bill promotes increased violence, violence against Women and the Unborn.

The government bill is an unprecedented attack on women and their precious unborn disguised as health care. Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not health care. This bill constitutes an increasingly lethal attack on the family, by attacking and facilitating the killing its weakest and most vulnerable members, our unborn children.

Shockingly this bill is being driven by our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. She is passionate in her belief that the killing of an unborn child is not a crime and that women have a “right” to kill their child in the womb if it is unwanted. She sees the killing as “a reproductive choice for women.” Can the Prime Minister inform the community why she believes that the violent dismemberment of a defenceless child in the womb is not a crime and should be taken out of the Crimes Act, while at the same time stating that smacking a child is a serious crime that should be retained in the Crimes Act? Of course she can not!

It is deceptive and untrue for the Prime Minister to claim that this is not a government bill. We can confidently say this because she stated on Newshub on 23 July, “This is different – it’s not a Government Bill – it’s a Bill just really open to individual Members of Parliament to choose how they would like to vote.” This is patently nonsense. Why is she now trying to deceive New Zealand into believing that this is not her bill that she directed the Minister of Justice to draft in February 2018?

Why does the media not see Ardern’s statement here as needing to be challenged. Again we say it is total nonsense.

The government’s proposed legislation is supported by Family Planning and denies that the child is a human baby. The child is described as “the contents of the womb” to be treated as medical waste to be disposed of at the local land fill.

It is disappointing that the Prime Minister who is a loving mother and genuinely cares about children, child abuse, child poverty and is the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction is oblivious of the plight of our unborn, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family.

The government has no mandate to remove women and their unborn from the protection of the Crimes Act. A poll conducted by AC Nielsen in 2004 on behalf of Right to Life found considerable support for recognising the humanity of the unborn child, The poll of 1000 persons found that 36% believed that the unborn child became a human being at conception, 14% at the time of implantation and 28 % at a point between implantation and birth. There were therefore a total of 78% who believed that the unborn child was a human being before birth. Why then is the government ignoring the wishes of the people?

The bill denies that the unborn child is a human being and that it has human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life. It provides for the killing of the child up to 20 weeks for any reason After 20 weeks the child may be killed if a doctor considers that is appropriate. This is effectively abortion on demand up to birth.

This is a very sad and disturbing day for New Zealand. The State has a serious duty to protect the lives of every member of the community from conception to natural death. This bill represents the withdrawal by the State, since 1856, from its duty to protect the lives of the unborn and to protect women from the violence of abortion.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Has NZ First Cruelly Betrayed Women and Our Unborn?

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Media Release 4th August 2019

The policy of NZ First on abortion was made abundantly clear by the Rt. Hon. Winston Peters at the Family First Conference in Auckland in 2014 . When interviewed by Bob McCoskrie he stated that “abortions should be legal, safe and rare”. He was asked if he supported the Green’s policy of decriminalising abortion. He replied “no we don’t” He said that he believed that life began at conception and that the child had a right to life.

Why the current turn around?

It is reported in the media that Martin is working with the Minister of Justice to have the government’s bill to decriminalise abortion reconciled with NZ First party policy. The Hon. Tracey Martin stated recently during a Radio New Zealand interview that it was the party’s overriding principle to keep abortion “safe legal and rare.” If NZ First’s policy is to oppose the decriminalisation of abortion, why then are they negotiating to support a bill that will decriminalise abortion, take abortion out of the Crimes Act, make it a simply health matter and make it no longer a crime to kill a child before it is born?

Right to Life asks the Minister of Children, the Hon. Tracey Martin, if the party has negotiated a secret deal with the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister to give the support of NZ First for a government bill to decriminalise abortion.

Right to Life believes that many people voted for NZ First at the 2017 general election because they sincerely believed that if they were elected to Parliament they would vigorously oppose the anti- life agenda of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Why are they not doing that? Her agenda is to decriminalise the killing of the unborn, make it no longer a crime to kill a child before birth and make the killing of the unborn “a reproductive choice for women.”

Right to Life asks the Hon. Tracey Martin; If you do a deal with the Prime Minister do you expect to receive their support at the election in 2020?

Right to Life freely acknowledges that Tracey Martin sincerely desires to do what is best for women and our precious unborn, but we must ask her if she realises that the Prime Minister seeks to dehumanise the unborn, declare that they are not human beings endowed with a right to life, seeks to make it no longer a crime to kill them, to make them property of the mother and give any mother the ‘right’ to kill her own children before birth for any reason?

Surely it is absolutely inconceivable that NZ First would now be secretly negotiating with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice to betray the women of New Zealand and our precious unborn.

The fundamental issue is not abortion but the status of the unborn child. If Parliament denies the humanity of the unborn child and moves the child from under the protection of the Crimes Act sections 182 and 183, allowing the killing of the child as a ‘health service’, we will have crossed a very dangerous line and be setting a very important precedent. A future Parliament could decide that those with dementia and Alzheimer’s are no longer human beings and may be killed as a health service. Will you be next?

In the interest of women and future generations Right to Life urges Tracey Martin to use her influence to maintain the status of the unborn child as the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family deserving of our respect and the continued protection of the Crimes Act.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Justice Demands a Referendum to Recognise Right to Life of Our Unborn Children

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Media Release July 27th 2019

Right to Life requests that the Labour led government conduct a binding referendum, the question being:- “Do you recognise the unborn child from implantation as being a human being endowed by its Creator with human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life?” This is the justice issue of our era.

Right to Life requests that our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern as a woman and as a mother lead by example, to give legal recognition to the unborn child as a human being from implantation endowed with human rights, the foundation right being the right to life.

The Minister of Justice in a response of the 16th March to an Official Information Act request from Right to Life confirmed that the government supported the born alive law contained in Section 159 of the Crimes Act 1961, that an unborn child does not become a human being until it is born. The section states that the born alive law was “for the purposes of the Crimes Act”. It was never the intention of Parliament to deny the humanity of the unborn child. This whole section is a legal fiction intended to differentiate between homicide and the killing of an unborn child.

A poll conducted by AC Nielsen in 2004 on behalf of Right to Life found considerable support for recognising the humanity of the unborn child, The poll of 1000 persons found that 36% believed that the unborn child became a human being at conception, 14% at the time of implantation and 28 % at a point between implantation and birth. There were therefore a total of 78% who believed that the unborn child was a human being before birth. And a poll of a 1,000 persons conducted by Curia Market Research in April 2019 on behalf of Family First found 47 % believed that the human rights  of the unborn child should be legally protected from about six weeks once a heartbeat can be detected. Instead of following it’s own agenda, why does the government not amend the law to reflect public opinion?

There are a small number of well organised persons, headed by Jacinda Ardern, that are resisting the legal recognition of the unborn child’s right to life. Leading the charge are the anti-feminist movement led by, the Family Planning Association, the Green Party, and the radical left of the Labour Party, all of whom are strident advocates for the killing of our innocent and defenceless unborn.

It is disappointing that our government has $2.2 million to conduct a referendum on legalising the personal use of cannabis, an issue that is a threat to the lives and health of New Zealanders. It is shameful that the government gives priority to legalising the smoking of cannabis but has no interest in promoting the right to life of our unborn. New Zealand cannot be considered a just society until the New Zealand bill of Rights protects the human rights of every New Zealander from conception to natural death.

We can not state more clearly that Jacinda Ardern is the prime driver for the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. The Prime Minister, does not recognise the humanity of the unborn child, nor its right to life. Right to Life believes that it is her belief that the child is the property of the mother. It is her wish that abortion be taken out of the Crimes Act and treated as a health issue. She believes that the killing of an unborn child should not be a crime, but a human right. She believes the killing of an unborn child should be treated as a “reproductive choice for women”.

This is astounding as the Prime Minister on the 19 January 2018 was jubilant in announcing that “she was pregnant with her first child”. She has felt her baby kick, she has heard its heart beat and watched in awe at scans showing the wondrous miracle of creation developing in her womb, truly a beautiful baby and a unique and unrepeatable miracle of creation endowed with a right to life. How then can she be in denial about the humanity of the unborn child and its right to life?

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Women Demonstrate at Parliament for “Right” to Kill their Children

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The National President of ALRANZ, Terry Bellamak (pictured), an American woman from Arizona in the United States, today issued a media release on behalf of ALRANZ. The Association  has an estimated national membership of about 100 members. Some students at Victoria University were planning a march and demonstration at Parliament on Tuesday 23 July, demanding abortion law “reform.”

Right to Life considers it hypocritical of ALRANZ to be demanding law reform when they actively encourage women on their web site to break the law and to smuggle dangerous and prohibited drugs into the country unlawfully in order to have an illegal chemical abortion which threaten’s the life and health of women.

Right to Life agrees with Ms Bellamak when she says that “everyone deserves the freedom to decide for themselves whether and when to become a parent.” That freedom is exercised before engaging in sexual intercourse. After conception they are parents. Human life begins at conception and every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of creation that deserves to be treated with respect and protection.

From the moment of conception the mother of the child is a mother and she has the privilege and duty to protect her unborn child.

It is a cause for great sadness to see a group of young women demonstrating for the “right ” to kill their children.

Tara O’Sulivan, co-president of the Victoria University Feminist Organisation claims that “abortion laws in New Zealand are currently a disgrace” because they don’t allow people to decide their own fate. Ms O’Sullivan believes that she is defending the rights of women. Right to Life asks why she does not defend the rights of women in the womb who are being denied their right to life and the right to be born.

Tamatha Paul president of the Victoria University Women’s Association claims that the “New Zealand law does not respect the bodily autonomy of pregnant people.” She is confused there are no pregnant people, only women have a uterus and only women can be pregnant. It is important to respect the bodily autonomy of women, it is also equally important to respect the rights of the child who has its own body that is independent of the mother.

Since the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act in 1977 (CS & A Act), there have been over 500,000 children violently killed in the womb. Nearly 250,000 of these children were female. The authentic feminist movement should be marching and demonstrating and demanding protection for these children many of whom would be attending University with you if they had been allowed to live.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Why is Jacinda Ardern Seeking to Impose Capital Punishment on the Unborn as a Reproductive Health Choice for Women?

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The method of execution in New Zealand of murderers under capital punishment prior to 1961 was by hanging, relatively quick. However the most common method of execution for the unborn these days is by surgical dismemberment, which entails violently and painfully tearing off the arms, legs and head off the victim. The bodies of the accused are then treated as “medical waste” and are disposed of at the local land fill.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is passionate and driven in her desire to reinforce capital punishment not for brutal and violent rapists and murderers, but for the defenceless and innocent unborn who have been found guilty of a more serious crime, the crime of being “unwanted”. Capital punishment is being reaffirmed and reformed by taking abortion out of the Crimes Act and making Capital punishment for the unborn, health care and “a reproductive choice for women”.

The Prime Minister supports the abolition of Capital punishment for rapists and murderers; why then is she determined to retain and extend Capital punishment for the unborn who are the most innocent and defenceless members of our human family.

Right to Life is determined that should the Labour led government  present an abortion bill to Parliament, we will ensure that the state funded execution of our children will be a major issue at the next general election.

The Prime Minister confirmed her opposition to the death penalty in the media on 2 April 2019. “New Zealand has always stood against the death penalty, in all its forms, for any reason”. The government is a leading voice in the United Nations for the abolition of Capital Punishment. Excuse me Prime Minister, why then are you personally promoting, funding and indeed driving the legislation which will effectively remove all protections for the unborn and result in the ongoing execution every year of more than 12,000 innocent children?

Family Planning and other vocal advocates for capital punishment for the unborn insist that the process be accessible and that the sentence be carried out without delay, all the while disguising this mass execution as “a reproductive health choice for women” and as health care. Right to Life is determined to oppose this Labour government led genocide.


Capital punishment for murder was removed from the statute books in 1961. There was a total of 85 convicted criminals executed in New Zealand between 1842 and 1957. New Zealand still retains the death penalty for its unborn children. Since 1977, the government has presided over the execution and killing of more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children who were found guilty of being “unwanted.” Being an unwanted unborn child in New Zealand effectively, is more often than not, a capital offence and means that, more than likely you will be subject to the death penalty.

For the unborn being unwanted is a serious crime, punishable by death. The sentence is imposed by doctors appointed by the Abortion Supervisory Committee, the trial is brief, no witnesses are called in the defence of the child and the sentence of death is carried out as quickly as possible; in a Public Hospital. The executions are authorised and funded by the government.

The government continues to delude itself in believing that it has an admirable and exemplary human rights record. The truth is that the government’s hands are covered in the blood of our aborted children and the consciences of our politicians must share in the guilt for this bloodshed and for the grief and sorrow inflicted on the poor mothers, the second victims of abortion.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Letter to Winston Peters and NZ First MP’s

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11 July 2019

Rt. Hon. Winston Peters MP,

Dear Minister,

I am writing to you in defence of our precious unborn and their mothers who are under an unprecedented attack.

The State has a serious duty to protect the lives of all members of the human family. The option preferred by the Minister of Justice would remove this protection.  It is contended that in upholding your commendable policy opposing the decriminalisation of abortion and acting in the best interests of the unborn and their mothers, NZ First should refrain from supporting this bill through cabinet and oppose the bill at its first and any subsequent readings. Any bill that seeks to make the killing of the defenceless unborn “a reproductive health service” represents an unprecedented attack on the sanctity of life.  

Right to Life commends NZ First for its defence of the lives of our precious unborn and their mothers. We are aware that NZ First is the only party in Parliament that has a policy to oppose the decriminalisation of abortion. I recall that at the Family First Conference in Auckland in 2014 when you were interviewed by Bob McCoskrie, you stated that “abortions should be legal, safe and rare”. You were asked if you supported the Green’s policy of decriminalising abortion, you replied “no we don’t”. You then said that you believed that life began at conception and that the child had a right to life.

It is reported in the media that your caucus is committed to supporting a bill through cabinet that would remove the killing of the unborn by abortion from the Crimes Act and make the killing of the unborn “a reproductive choice for women”. It is the wish of the Prime Minister to remove the stigma associated with the killing of the unborn and to make the killing of the child no longer a crime, but a health service.

The sanctity of life of the unborn and its right to life are protected under the Crimes Act section 182 Killing unborn child and section 183 Procuring abortion by any means. It is a serious crime to kill a child in the womb. Every- one who violates these sections is liable to imprisonment for up to 14 years. This legal protection has been there since 1856, we change it at our peril. 

The Royal Commission in its report to Parliament in 1977 said, on upholding the status of the unborn child. “The unborn child as one of the weakest, the most vulnerable and most defenceless forms of humanity, should receive protection. From a biological point of view there is no argument as to when life begins. Evidence was given to us by eminent scientists from all over the world. None of them suggested that human life begins at any other time than at conception.” In rejecting the argument that some degree of development should be reached before the unborn child be accorded status, the Commission said, “If some stage of physical or mental development has to be accepted as indicating whether or not human life is in being, so a stage may be reached at the other end of life where a person who has become senile or has lost consciousness may be disposed of.”

The unborn child is the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family and needs special legal protection. Every day in New Zealand nearly thirty-five children in the womb are violently destroyed and their mothers the second victim of abortion, are left with a life time of grief and sorrow. Our women deserve better.

A poll of a 1,000 respondents conducted by Curia Market Research on behalf of Family First in December 2017, revealed that 96% of NZ First voters were opposed to sex selection abortions. That 38% were opposed to abortions being performed after 15 weeks and a further 10 % were opposed to abortions being done at all. 73 % were opposed to abortions and wanted them reduced.

If we as a society deny the humanity of the unborn, then logically we will one day deny the humanity of those who are suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s. The denial of the humanity and right to life of the unborn is a threat to the right to life of every citizen.

The decriminalisation of abortion will;

  • Allow for sex selection abortions, which are currently unlawful.
  • Allow for abortion up to birth for babies with a disabiliy including Down Syndrome.
  • Not protect women seeking an abortion because they are subject to violence and coercion.

In conclusion, Right to Life requests that you withdraw support for the decriminalisation of abortion and that you use your influence to have the current unlawful abortion on demand stopped. Please promote adoption as a loving option.

Thank you for all that you are doing to defend life, protecting women from the violence of abortion and promoting the common good.

Yours sincerely,

Ken Orr

Secretary.

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