Right to Life New Zealand

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Many District health authorities refuse to terminate normal post twenty week pregnancies!

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Media Release 30 November 2022

The Ministry of Health in response to an Official Information Act request from Right to Life advised on 30th November 2022 that there are seven abortion providers, previously District Health Boards in New Zealand that had refused to provide an abortion post 20 weeks in 2021 for a viable ongoing pregnancy. They had also refused to refer them to another abortion provider.

Right to Life commends the abortion providers for upholding the right to life of these unborn children and recognising that these pregnancies were normal and healthy. We are reminded that it was the Abortion Supervisory Committee that advised Parliament in its report in 1988 that the majority of abortions were being performed on women with potentially normal healthy pregnancies on pseudo-legal grounds.

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister why her government is funding the war against women and their potentially normal and healthy unborn children. Our children are our nation’s future. You are passionate about your concern for children.

As the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction how can you countenance the violent destruction of more than 13 000 unborn children every year? To be deprived of your life before you are born is the ultimate in child abuse and the ultimate in child poverty.

The extremist Abortion Legislation Act designed by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, imposes a tyrannical imposition on abortion providers. A woman with a pregnancy of less than 20 weeks seeking an abortion is not required to give a reason and is legally entitled to demand the killing of her child. The abortion provider may not refuse her request. After 20 weeks a medical practitioner is required to believe that the abortion is “appropriate”.

Right to Life believes that it is always wrong to violently kill an innocent and defenceless unborn child. We believe that the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 should be repealed, however as an incremental improvement it should be urgently amended to permit abortion providers to refuse to kill normal and healthy unborn children at any gestational age when they consider that it is inappropriate.

Right to Life believes that there is no other medical procedure available on demand in public hospitals without having the approval of medical practitioners.

Right to Life believes that the vast majority of medical practitioners are committed to the ethics of their profession and know that when they are caring for a pregnant woman, they are caring for two vulnerable patients, the mother and her unborn child.

It is appalling that the government has imposed on the medical profession extremist abortion laws that demands that they be state funded killers.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Why does the government not recognise its own hate speech directed at women and their unborn?

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Media Release 27 November 2022

What could be more hateful than to tell a pregnant woman, that her child is not a human being, does not have a right to life and that the government would be pleased to authorise and fund the violent killing of her child before it is born, as a health service?   

 Right to Life is opposed to the government’s proposal to introduce hate speech legislation. This would be an infringement of free speech and expression. Right to Life believes that it is incompatible with a free and open society. It could ultimately result in opposition to the killing of unborn children being classified as hate speech.

 Recently the British Parliament amended the law to prohibit praying silently outside an abortion clinic with the penalty on conviction, six months in prison.

The government is committed to promoting abortion as health care and a reproductive choice for women. With the introduction of the extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020, designed by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child as it does not become a human being until it is born. Right to Life believes that this constitutes government sponsored hate speech directed at the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family.

Right to Life believes that the government is most uncomfortable with those in our community who exercise their right of free speech to protest at the killing of defenceless and innocent unborn children sanctioned and funded by the government. We believe that the government would dearly love to silence these courageous defenders of life who protest that abortion is murder and war against women.

The Justice Minister, Kiritapu Allan, has announced that there will be an amendment to the Human Rights Act 1993, so that inciting hostility against religious belief will also be covered. The Minister states that it is her intention next year to submit her proposals to the Law Commission and seek their advice. The community should not forget how the Law Commission cowardly betrayed women and their unborn by meekly agreeing with the government to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and make the killing of the unborn a health service.

The government has given notice with its overwhelming support for the Safe Area legislation and its assault on free speech that the government is determined to control what we think and what we say. A nation of docile sheep invites government by wolves.

Enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right to freedom of opinion and expression includes for everyone the “freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. This fundamental human right is protected by several international and regional human rights treaties.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Supreme Court upholds teenager’s right to vote but rejects right to life of unborn child

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Media Release 23 November 2022

The Supreme Court is concerned about the alleged discrimination against 16 year olds who are denied the right to vote for Parliament until they are 18, but is shamefully silent on the discrimination against the 13,257 unborn children who were violently killed in 2021 because they were not old enough to be recognised as human beings with a right to life. 

 The right to life is the foundation human right that is upheld by the Bill of Rights Act 1990, which reads:

Life and security of the person

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.

Right to Life is disappointed that the Supreme Court has seen fit to deliver a decision to uphold a right of 16 year olds to vote at a general election. In 2011 the Supreme Court rejected a cross appeal from Right to Life in our judicial appeal against the Abortion Supervisory Committee. Our appeal on behalf of unborn children was to consider our case in support of the right to life of unborn children, upheld by the Bill of Rights, section 8, Right not to be deprived of life.

The Supreme Court’s decision of November 2022 recognises that the current voting age limit of 18 violates the Bill of Rights Act 1990, alleging that it is discriminatory on the basis of age.

There is an appalling injustice inflicted on unborn children who are discriminated on the basis of age. The discrimination is contained in section 159 of the Crimes Act which denies the humanity of the child and its right to  life until it is born.

The Supreme Court would have been aware when they declined our appeal in 2011 that in 2010 a total of 16,630 unborn children were violently killed in New Zealand. Right to Life believes that the Supreme Court has deplorably failed to defend the right to life of the unborn, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. Their silence has been deafening!

Since the Supreme Court shamefully declined to hear our case in 2011 on behalf of our precious unborn, a total of 136,866 unborn children have been poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or have been violently dismembered.

Right to Life passionately believes that the Supreme Court should be defenders of justice and the protectors of the lives of our precious unborn, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. Right to Life longs for the day when we have a Supreme Court that is truly devoted to protecting the lives of New Zealanders from conception to natural death.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

National supports Labour’s telehealth killing unborn

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Media Release 5 November 2022

Christopher Luxon, why do you and your caucus want to continue killing me?

Right to Life is appalled that the National Party supports the Jacinda Ardern’s government’s telehealth abortion Decide programme that will provide lethal drugs to poison babies up to 10 weeks gestation as pictured. This is an abomination, the ultimate in child abuse, violence against women and a crime against humanity. How can we do this to our own children and pretend that it is healthcare?  

 Dr Shane Reti, National Party spokesperson for health was reported by the media on 1st November as saying:-

 “It made sense to improve access to abortion with a telehealth service.”

 “National is supportive of New Zealanders getting better and easier access to healthcare.”

Right to Life questions Dr Reti’s statement. Abortion is not healthcare, the sole objective of abortion is to kill an innocent and defenceless human being before it is born. Why does it make sense to improve access to killing the unborn? What sense is there in giving lethal drugs to a woman by post or courier to undergo the trauma of killing her baby alone without medical supervision? What sense is there in allowing coercion, sexual abuse, incest and rape to remain hidden?

Dr Reti voted against the extremist Abortion Legislation Act, as a doctor he should be defending the sanctity of life ethic, why is he now abandoning his medical ethics and supporting violence against women and their defenceless unborn?

Right to Life believes that we have a serious moral obligation to elect to our parliament only those people who are committed to the defence of the sanctity of life of every human being from conception to natural death.

Dr Reti’s appalling statement defending the lethal poisoning of the unborn up to 10 weeks gestation together with the policy of his leader, Christopher Luxon, that he proclaimed on 27th June 2022 following the United States Supreme Court overturning the unconstitutional Roe v Wade, decision, “These laws will not be relitigated or revisited under a future National government, and these health services will remain fully funded.”

This statement disqualifies the National Party from governing this nation. National now joins Labour, ACT, Greens and the Maori Party who are all opposed to protecting our children.  With these political parties in parliament, the most dangerous place for a New Zealander today is in its mother’s womb.

Right to Life asks why the National Party is not at the forefront in promoting legislation that recognises the unborn child as a human being with an inalienable right to life. If the National Party is really concerned about women’s health why are they not promoting real help for women to choose life for their precious baby? Why is the National Party not promoting adoption, foster care  and parenting?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life Inc.

0800 Decide Teleheath service – murder for defenceless unborn children

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Media Release 2 November 2022

 Right to Life is disappointed that the government continues to promote the violent killing of our precious unborn children and violence against women as health care. The Decide programme intensifies the chemical warfare that the government is inflicting on our own children who are unique and unrepeatable miracles of God’ loving creation.

 Right to Life asks, If today the government provides an 0800 number to obtain lethal drugs to kill our unborn children, will justice demand that a future government provide an 0800 phone number for our children to obtain lethal drugs to kill us when we become a burden? 

 Dr Ayesha Verrall, Associate Minister of Health responsible for overseeing legislation for killing the unborn and for the terminally ill, stated on Tuesday in a media release from the Beehive, “People seeking an abortion will have better access to care from today.”

 “This is a huge step towards normalising and improving access to abortion care and I continue to be encouraged by the dedication of health professionals delivering this vital service.” The Minister as a woman and a mother should know that only women seek an abortion, men do not have a uterus and are not women. Cancelling out women is offensive.

Right to Life questions the safety of early medical abortions. According to information provided by Medical Statistics at the Ministry of Health there were 203  women in 2021 diagnosed with complications prior to discharge resulting from a medical abortion both early and late, resulting in an unknown number of women being admitted to hospital for a total of 54 days.

Today, 1st November, the government continues its war on women with the culmination of its National Abortion Telehealth service. Women are encouraged to dial a 0800 number to seek the killing of their unborn child.   If the child is less than 10 weeks old the lethal drugs are then posted or couriered to the woman’s home.

The government claims that the Decide programme protects the rights of women. Right to Life challenges this claim because the Ministry denies the right of women to change their mind after taking Mifepristone. It refuses to allow women to save their baby by accepting progesterone treatment in accordance with the successful abortion pill reversal protocol which has saved the lives of more than 2,500 unborn babies.

The first lethal drug is Mifepristone, which kills the child by starving it of nourishment, the second drug is Misoprostol which forcibly expels the child from the sanctuary of its mother’s womb.

The Decide programme is totally focused on killing the child, this programme is silent on life alternatives such as the adoption, parenting or fostering of the child. This programme does not care about women or the unborn, it cares only about promoting abortion.

The abortion industry is a multi – million dollar industry. The government has contracted out the killing of the unborn who have been classified as unwanted.  The Family Planning Association supports the killing of the unborn as a backup for failed contraception and has won a contract to implement the Decide programme with the Magma Health Care Ltd.

Our women deserve better than abortion. A nation that kills its own children is a nation without a future.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Child poverty commences in the womb!

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Media Release 26th October 2022

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister why she refuses to accept that the ultimate in child poverty is for the child to be deprived of its life in its mother’s womb?

Right to Life commends the Prime Minister, who is the Minister for child poverty reduction, for being passionately committed to reducing child poverty in New Zealand. The glaringly obvious fact however is that she continues to ignore the right to life of our unborn, our most vulnerable children. Indeed our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was the dedicated architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, that allows for the violent killing of unborn children right up to birth.

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, does she think she is reducing child poverty in New Zealand by allowing the killing of children before birth?

Since she became Prime Minister in 2017, more than 65,000 innocent and defenceless children have been violently killed in abject poverty in their mother’s wombs, shamefully funded by the government she heads, under the guise of abortion being a health service.

The Prime Minister stated in an opinion article that she wrote for Children’s Day 3rd March 2019, ”one of our goals and aspirations as a government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child, but we can always do more. The way we treat children, says so much about what kind of country we are.”

Right to Life agrees and asks how can she really be concerned about the welfare of children when legislation she has introduced supports the poisoning of unborn children who are then sucked out of their mother’s wombs or otherwise violently and painfully dismembered. one in every five conceived unborn children are killed in this way.

Prime Minister, what sort of country authorises and funds the violent killing of 36 unborn children every day? Why do you discriminate against our vulnerable unborn children?  

Human life begins at conception, at this unique moment we have a new human being, a child, the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family that is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

In 2018 Jacinda Ardern introduced the Child Poverty Reduction bill which had as its objective to encourage a focus on child poverty reduction and provide a commitment by government to address child well-being. This bill was passed in December 2018. There is no provision in this Act to recognise the poverty inflicted on unborn children.

It is the duty of government not only to reduce child poverty but to prohibit the killing of children, both born and unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life  NZ Inc.

 

Defund Family Planning – peddlers of death!

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Media Release 22 October 2022

Right to Life requests that the government cease funding the Family Planning Association which received more than $12 million in funding in 2020. The Association is at the forefront in promoting a culture of death in New Zealand, the war against women, the unborn and the family of exclusively one man and one woman. 

 Right to Life is making a complaint to the New Zealand Charities Commission requesting that the Family Planning Association be stripped of its charity status. The Association is not a genuine charity and breached its charity status by actively advocating for the Abortion Legislation Act by sending a letter to all MPs in 2019 requesting that they vote for the abortion bill. The Association also actively supported the Safe Areas amendment bill by making a written and oral submission to the select committee.

The Association promotes violence against women and our precious unborn. It is at the forefront in the killing of the innocent and defenceless unborn in New Zealand. The Association has won a contract with the government to participate in the million dollar abortion industry by providing the National Abortion Telehealth Service, Decide for the killing of unwanted children during the first nine months of life.

The NZFPA, a sister affiliate with Planned Parenthood of America, was founded by Margaret Sanger, a staunch eugenicist who held racist affiliations and believed in the elimination of certain groups of people. Sanger, who despised the poor, the sick, the disabled and immigrants, noted that one of the methods to “weed out the unfit” and breed a “pure” human race was through birth control. Even Sanger though, originally believed abortion to wrong, and was quoted as saying “the practice of it merely for limitation of offspring is dangerous and vicious”. How things have changed.

Family Planning faithfully follows this philosophy in holding that abortion is a necessary backup to dispose of children resulting from failed contraception. The mantra of Family Planning is the same as Margaret Sanger, “every child a wanted child.” Those children who are not planned, are unwanted and should be killed before birth while still in the womb. Adoption is not a preferred option.

Family Planning is opposed to the unborn child being recognised as a human being endowed by its Creator with a right to life. The Association included in its submission in 2012 to the Parliamentary Select Committee for Health that it was opposed to recognising the unborn child as a person and a human being endowed with human rights “as this would erode women’s access to abortion.”

The plans of Family Planning for our families should concern all New Zealanders.  This pernicious organisation provides contraceptives to our children without the knowledge or consent of parents. It arranges abortions for our children without their parents’ knowledge or consent. It produces sex education programs for our schools that encourages promiscuity. The results are STDs, unplanned pregnancies and abortions.

Right to Life questions why our government continues to fund an organization that seeks to seduce our children into becoming sexually active when and with whom they wish.  It tells our children in one of its pamphlets “If you choose to have sex it can be great when you are ready”

It is time for the government to cease funding the NZFPA and provide good quality chastity based sexuality education in schools.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Government’s abortion counselling services outlaw prolife counselling!

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Media Release 19 October 2022

Right to Life intends to lodge a complaint with the Human Rights Commissioner against the Director General of Health for violating the rights of pregnant women to choose counsellors whom they wish to receive counselling from.

 It is now a legal requirement that counsellors providing counselling to women considering an abortion, have no conscientious objection to the killing of an unborn child.

This legal requirement is mandated for in the recently released Ministry of Health Abortion Counselling Standards. Counsellors who uphold the sanctity of life ethic, who believe that the unborn child has an inalienable right to life, and who believe that abortion is violence against women are explicitly excluded from providing counselling. Abortion counselling is optional, it is funded by the state and is an integral part of the abortion industry.

Right to Life received confirmation from the Ministry of Health  that the Standards have legal standing  in accordance with the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, section 16[1][b][II], which requires the Director General of Health to produce these Standards.

 Right to Life believes that it is the government’s intention to encourage the killing of the unborn and to isolate women from counselling which opposes violence against women and their unborn. The current government will not allow any dissent against killing unborn children, so it seeks to silence the pro-life movement in New Zealand. The government’s promotion of a culture of death will fail as a culture of life will ultimately triumph over a culture of death.

 The Ministry of Health released these amended Abortion Counselling Standards on 4th August 2022. These standards state that only government approved counsellors may provide abortion counselling. The definition of abortion counselling is that it is intended to provide therapeutic support to people who are considering having, or have had, an abortion.

Right to Life believes that pregnant women considering an abortion have a right to seek counselling from a person who loves and cares for both the mother and her child. She has a right to refuse counselling from a counsellor who does not believe that her precious child is a human being endowed with a right to life and who would support the violent killing of her child.

Right to Life is particularly concerned that only persons who do not have a conscientious objection to abortion may provide counselling. This means that the counsellor should believe:-

  • That the unborn child is not a human being, nor have a right to life until it is born.
  • That it is not a crime to kill an unborn child and that abortion is a ”reproductive health choice for women.”
  • Right to Life believes that counsellors who uphold the sanctity of life ethic are prohibited from providing counselling to any woman who is considering an abortion or who is seeking post abortion counselling.

Right to Life believes that the government is intent on forbidding pro-life counselling in New Zealand by outlawing it. We believe that their objective is to:-

  • Normalise the killing of unborn children and to encourage women to seek an abortion.
  • Prevent women from exercising their right to seek pro-life counselling and support to choose life for their child.
  •  Silence and suppress pro-life counsellors, which is a violation of their freedom of speech.

Right to Life believes that these draconian guidelines promote a culture of death, the war on women and on the lives of our precious unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

 

Labour & Jacinda Ardern – major source of misinformation!

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Media Release 7 October 2022

Right to Life believes that the government of Jacinda Ardern is a major source of misinformation and disinformation in New Zealand. In a recent address to the United Nations, the Prime Minister sought support for censorship of broadcasting of terrorist activities on the Internet, which is absolutely necessary.

However the government agreement with big tech companies on this issue also opens the way to possible censorship of speech of which the government disapproves. 

Right to Life believes that the government is convinced that it is the sole source of truth and wants to vigorously suppress dissent that challenges the government’s agenda to destroy the traditional marriage of exclusively one man and one women.

Also it wishes to sexualise our children with Family Planning style sex education programmes designed to seduce and promote promiscuity, in order to destroy our Christian culture and replace it with the new secular humanist religion which proclaims the supremacy of humans over God.    

Jacinda Ardern is concerned at “mis & disinformation” and describes free speech as a weapon of war. Right to Life believes that this government wants to impose its will on the people, in order to do this, it must control what we think and what we say.

In 2017, in response to a letter from the Saving Downs organisation signed by 500 concerned parents, the Prime Minister stated that the legal protection for the lives of unborn children with Down syndrome and other disabilities from 20 weeks gestation would be retained under the new abortion law.

We were deliberately misinformed. The Abortion Legislation Act 2020 allowed for these Down syndrome children to be killed up to birth. This was appalling misinformation.

 In 2019 the Prime Minister told us that it would no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child, as it was not a human being and did not become a human being with a right to life, until it was born. Killing the child was now a reproductive choice and a health service. This was appalling misinformation.

 In 2020 the Prime Minister said, after being asked if there might be tax penalties or other sanctions for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine: “No, and we haven’t for any vaccination in New Zealand applied penalties in that way,” Ardern told The AM Show.

In 2021 her government imposed mandatory vaccination resulting in thousands of doctors, nurses, midwives, teachers and other workers being deprived of their employment. This was appalling misinformation.

In 2021 the government introduced the End of Life Choice Act 2019, which empowered doctors to kill their patients with a lethal injection or assist in suicide. We were told that this was not murder, but assisted dying and a new health service. The government promoted a “Yes” vote to the referendum in 2020 by conducting an advertising campaign of misinformation, and refused to correct a serious misunderstanding of the existing rights of patients to refuse or cease medical treatment. This was appalling misinformation.

 In 2022 the government, in the Standards for Abortion Counselling, sought to demonise Christianity by blaming missionaries for teaching Maoris that abortion was intrinsically evil and should cease. The government claims that this imposed a stigma on Maori people and that for 200 years Christianity has deprived Maori of their accepted cultural right to choose to kill their children before birth. This was appalling misinformation.

 

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life  N.Z. Inc.

Abortion is never safe for the mother or her child

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Media Release 28 September 2022

Today, the 28th September, the international billion dollar abortion industry and the anti-feminist movement celebrates “International safe abortion day.” Their objective to make the killing of the unborn free, safe and legal. Well may the industry led by Family Planning in New Zealand celebrate as they can now kill the innocent and defenceless child effectively for any reason up to birth.

 Abortion is never safe. In every abortion an innocent and defenceless unborn child is murdered by being poisoned, sucked out of its mother’s womb or violently and painfully dismembered.

This claims to be a global feminist campaign to support women’s rights and calls for those who support women’s rights and gender justice to speak up.

Women’s rights begin in the womb and Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up for the right of females to be born. True feminism is non-violent is inclusive and protective of the weak and vulnerable. 

 The mother is the second victim of the killing of her child who is grievously wounded, spiritually, physically, psychologically and emotionally. She is left with a lifetime of grief, sorrow, remorse and pain. Why do we allow this intolerable violence to be inflicted on our women and their unborn?

The leading cause of death in 2021 was abortion. There were an estimated 73 million children murdered in their mother’s womb in 2021. All other deaths are estimated at 58.7 million. The World Medical Association reported 3.5 million deaths from Covid-19.

Abortion is not free, as we, the taxpayers, are forced to pay for the killing of our nation’s unborn. We have no right to choose to have the innocent blood of our children on our hands, this is an intolerable injustice.

Abortion is legal, it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child because the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 designed by our Prime Minister decrees that the child is not a human being with a right to life until it is born.

Dr Tracey Morrison, a South African follows a long line of foreigners appointed by ALRANZ to be president and spokesperson. It is believed that ALRANZ has a national membership of about 45 members, hardly representative of the women of New Zealand.

In a media release today Dr. Morrison claims that abortion is one part of reproductive justice that includes the right of bodily autonomy and the choice whether to parent or not. It is appalling that she seeks justice but denies justice for the unborn. She claims bodily autonomy but denies the bodily autonomy of the unborn child. She claims the right to choose parenting but ignores the fact that the mother is a parent at the conception of her child.

We need to show that we can create a world where we can love children and not kill them. A world where adoption is always a better option, a world where we care for women and their children. This is our opportunity to make the grisly performance of abortion, like slavery, unthinkable in a civilised modern society.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

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