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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice

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Media Release Saturday 2nd July 2022

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice”.

It is attributed to Dante, that “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality

Right to Life is disappointed that the leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon, who claims to be pro-life, has declared that, “I want women in New Zealand to have absolute certainty that when I am Prime Minister in a National government they know that our abortion laws are not going to be re-litigated or re-visited, that they know that funding for these services are going to be maintained”. He also stated,” I have a pro-life position but the reality is in New Zealand there is no need for us to change the laws”. This is not a pro-life position, it is aggressively promoting a culture of death and should be opposed.

Christopher Luxon stated last year on being elected leader that “abortion was tantamount to murder”.

Those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be trusted to govern those who are born. If the National Party is not committed to protecting the lives of defenceless unborn children, why should we trust them to protect our lives?

If Christopher Luxon believes that abortion is murder how can he in conscience concede to accept the murder of 64 unborn children each day, totalling more than 13,000 a year?

How can he say that,” there is no need to change the law”?

The message that he is giving to the women of New Zealand is, I know that abortion is violence against women and your precious unborn, however I am not prepared to defend you and protect you because it is now settled law.

Christopher Luxon looks up to William Wilberforce as his model who succeeded in 1807 after 20 years of campaigning as a Member of Parliament in Westminster to abolish the slave trade in England. Wilberforce was a man of deep Christian faith who allowed his faith to motivate his politics. Wilberforce recognised the dignity of every human being made in the image and likeness of God. He rejected the pro-slavery philosophy that slaves were not human beings and that it was the human right to choose to own slaves.

Abortion is the new slavery promoted like slavery as a human right. The cry now is that the unborn child is not a human being, it has no right to life and it is a human right for women to choose to kill their child before it is born.

Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon should now follow the example of Wilberforce and be a leader and a statesman in government campaigning against the violence of abortion inflicted on women and their unborn. He should recognise that human life begins at conception and that every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation endowed with an inalienable right to life. His faith should influence his politics by committing himself and his Party to the abolition of abortion. New Zealand desperately needs a statesman who is concerned for the next generation, not a politician who is concerned about the next election.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Government increases chemical warfare against women and unborn

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Media Release 19 June 2022

Why does the N.Z. government, which condemns chemical warfare, allow and engage in chemical warfare against our own women and children?  In 2020 there were 13,246 abortions reported in New Zealand, 45% were chemical abortions, this is government funded chemical warfare. Chemical abortions are an instrument of mass destruction, which victimises mothers and kills their unborn.

Right to Life believes that the New Zealand government, by conducting chemical warfare against the unborn, is violating the United Nations 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. The Convention (CWC) prohibits the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and requires the destruction of both chemical weapons production facilities and the weapons themselves.

Our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern openly condemns chemical warfare.

In September 2018 she stated, “New Zealand condemns any use of chemical weapons, whether it is in Syria or on the streets of the UK. New Zealand believes all states must adhere to obligations under international law, including in respect of chemical weapons.”

Why then does the Prime Minister and her government condone, promote and fund chemical warfare against our own children?

The government has increased its war against women and the unborn by contracting out to private enterprise the killing of unwanted children. The government has contracted with the pro-abortion NZ Family Planning Association and the Magma Healthcare Ltd to run its DECIDE service, the national abortion telehealth service which will enable women to request the killing of their unborn child by just ringing an 0800 number.

DECIDE will connect people from July 2022 anywhere in the country to abortion information, advice, and counselling over the phone. In November the providers will commence sending the lethal drugs to women by post or courier.

The abortion industry is a multi-million dollar industry and the government is prepared to fund Family Planning and Magma for every unborn child poisoned with Mifepristone RU 486.

Medical abortions further victimise women:-

  • By trivialising the killing of the unborn.
  • By violating informed consent by refusing to give the woman any information on the process of reversing the abortion process with high doses of progesterone after the taking of Mifepristone, should she regret her decision and choose life for her child.
  • By imposing an incredible psychological burden on women. She has to accept full responsibility for the killing of her child for it is the woman who takes the lethal drug to kill her child.
  • By abandoning women to take the lethal drugs in her own home without medical support.
  • By failing to ensure that the woman is not subject to coercion, violence or threats of desertion.
  • By leaving the woman to dispose of the remains of her child. This is an appalling psychological trauma for women.

The government is promoting chemical warfare against women and their precious unborn in the face of increasing opposition from doctors to be involved in surgical abortions, which entail the violent dismemberment of the child. Medical abortions do not require a doctor and can now be provided by nurse practitioners and midwives.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc

Jacinda Ardern betrays women and unborn children

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Media Release 1 June 2022

Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister has offended many in New Zealand by misrepresenting the truth in her commencement address at  Harvard University last week.

 Never before in the history of our nation has a Prime Minister stood on a world stage and boasted about facilitating the killing of the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. With a serene smile and a triumphant tone she told the assembled faculty and 8,000 students of her achievements, “we have decriminalised abortion.” The shameful response of the Harvard assembly was a standing ovation.

Prime Minister it is not “we” who decriminalised the killing of the unborn, but you and your government who decriminalised abortion. It was you, who has cruelly denied the humanity of our children and denied their right to life until they were born. It was you, as the architect of the notorious Abortion Legislation Act 2020, who chose to ignore the overwhelming opposition of the public. The Abortion Legislation Bill Select Committee received over 25,000 submissions with 91.6 % of these being opposed to the bill. Prime Minister, why did you treat us with contempt and ignore us?

The theme for her address was, “democratic systems and informed debate.” The inference was that New Zealand is a Parliamentary democracy.

Right to Life believes that the reality is that we don’t have a properly functioning Parliamentary democracy, we have a dictatorship that hides behind the façade of Parliament. Select committees frequently ignore public submissions and the government stifles debate in Parliament as shown with the Abortion Legislation bill and the End of Life Choice bill. The government is determined to impose its aggressive agenda of social engineering, regardless of the will of the people.

The Prime Minister declared in her address, “It ignores the fact that the foundation of a strong democracy includes trust in institutions, experts, and government — and that this can be built up over decades but torn down in mere years.”

Right to Life agrees and laments that her government has betrayed our trust with its failure to protect the lives of our precious unborn with the killing of more than 13,000 unborn children every year being violently killed up to birth by being poisoned, sucked from their mother’s womb or being violently dismembered, authorised and funded by the government.

You called for kindness, yet you refused to protect our children and now you are generously paying doctors to kill their vulnerable patients with a lethal injection or assist in their suicide under the guise that this is “health care”. Prime Minister, we don’t trust you to protect our lives, you don’t deserve our trust and you have no right to govern us because you don’t have our consent.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Abortion counselling should be mandatory

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Media Release 26 May 2022

Right to Life believes that the government should conduct an urgent enquiry into why an assumed overwhelming number of women are not being counselled before an abortion, the effect that this is having on informed consent, the destruction of innocent unborn life and the implications for the future physical and psychological health of women.

 Right to Life is concerned that the overwhelming number of women who are coerced into accepting the killing of their unborn child presumably do not seek pre-abortion counselling. A study conducted in 2019 by the Elliot Institute in the United States found that 64% of women seeking an abortion had been coerced to have an abortion against their will by others.

 It should be of great concern to the community that the Auckland District Health Board revealed in a recent response to an Official Information Act request from Right to Life that there were 4,027 women who had an abortion at their facilities in 2021 and that there were only 174 women who received pre-abortion counselling. Right to Life believes that these disturbing statistics are reflective of the abortion industry in New Zealand.

Right to Life asks the government how can it be confident that women enduring the killing of their unborn child have given an informed consent, when nearly 96%, of women seeking an abortion have not been counselled?

Right to Life believes that women are not being encouraged to seek counselling as it can require a consultation with a social worker at the hospital and require a second visit on another day for a surgical abortion. The introduction of medical abortions by telehealth with the abortion pills sent to the women’s home is a further disincentive for a woman to seek counselling at a hospital.

Right to Life is concerned that the Ministry of Health has no interest in collecting information on the abortion report form on whether women are being counselled. If the Ministry of Health is really concerned about women’s health, why are they not concerned that the overwhelming number of women undergoing abortion are not been counselled?

Pre-abortion counselling is in the interest of women and their precious unborn children. It provides an opportunity for the woman to explore life affirming alternatives to the killing of the child, such as adoption, guardianship and parenting and information about services that would support a woman to choose life for her child. Counselling provides information concerning the development and humanity of the unborn child and the potential complications, sterility, future miscarriages, premature births and long term psychological grief and sorrow.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Christopher Luxon is Not Truly Pro-Life

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Media Release 21 May 2022

THOSE WHO GOVERN US DO SO WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE GOVERNED.

Right to Life requests that Christopher Luxon becomes the truly pro-life leader that National and our nation desperately needs, by seeking the repeal of the Abortion Legislation Act 2019 and legislating for the recognition of the humanity of unborn children endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life.

 Christopher Luxon, leader of the National Party stated on RNZ on 11 May 2022 “I want to be crystal clear with you as I have on a number of interviews with you,” he told Morning Report.

 “The answer is really simple: our abortion laws were settled in the last Parliament. It was a big topic of conversation, there was lots of debate about it, the different positions were presented, and we settled on those laws. And they are not changing under my government.”

National’s new leader Christopher Luxon, revealed that he believes abortion is tantamount to murder during a sit-down interview with Newshub’s Jenna Lynch on 1st December 2021 “I’m a pro-life person, you know,” Luxon said.

When asked to confirm if abortion is tantamount to murder, he said: “That’s what a pro-life position is.”  He doesn’t want to discuss it. “There are bigger issues for New Zealanders to get focused on.”

Right to Life reminds Christopher Luxon that there is no such thing as settled law, Parliament is constantly amending and repealing legislation. The last Parliament chose to completely ignore the overwhelming public opposition to the Abortion Legislation Bill.  There is absolutely no bigger issue than the murder of our children. Only God’s law is settled and unchangeable. His fifth commandment is ”thou shalt not kill.”

Abortion is violence against women and their precious unborn. Christopher Luxon is to be applauded for recognising abortion as murder. It may be assumed that he recognises the murderous Abortion Legislation Act, designed by the government led by Jacinda Ardern, that effectively permits the violent killing of the unborn as unjust and allows for 35 unborn children, the equivalent of one and a half classrooms of children, being taken each day to hospitals and clinics in New Zealand to be poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or to be violently dismembered.

If abortion is murder, how can he compromise his conscience by abandoning women and our precious unborn and declaring that a government under his direction will refuse to stop the genocide against our unborn and the violence against women?

Christopher Luxon aspires to be the Prime Minister and seeks our permission to govern this nation. We make no apology for speaking up in defence of life. We will never give permission to elect  a leader to govern us who remains silent in the presence of the violent murder each year of more than 13,000 unborn children who are the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family.

If Christopher Luxon will not defend life and seek to protect our women and the unborn from the violence of abortion, then we will elect those who will.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

 

Wellbeing budget 2022 – objective – reduce child poverty

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Media Release 19 May 2022

The Labour government’s 2022 “wellbeing budget” is an historic budget, for never before has a government budgeted for more money for the killing of New Zealanders under the guise of health care.

 The government have five objectives for the Budget 2022. The fifth objective is to reduce child poverty and improving child wellbeing. Right to Life asks the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is also the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction, how she can reconcile that objective with the appalling killing of more than 13,000 unborn children every year in New Zealand. This is the ultimate in child poverty and a crime against humanity.      

Right to Life believes that those who kill the unborn and the very sick do not have a right to govern or to sit in our Parliament.

The first duty of the state is to uphold the sanctity of life and protect the life of every human being from conception till natural death.

Since Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister in 2017 more than 65,000 children have been violently killed before birth in their mother’s womb.

In addition a further 92 vulnerable patients have been killed by their doctor with a lethal injection or assisted in suicide following the introduction of the End of Life Choice Act on 7th November 2021.These killings are performed under the guise that this is health care authorised and funded by the government.

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

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

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden said on 12 September 2020.

“I’ve made no secret of the fact that I want New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child. It’s an aspiration I’ve held for a long time. It’s one of the reasons I entered politics back in 2008.” Right to Life asks how can New Zealand be the best place in the world when you approve and support the funding of the killing each year of more than 13,000 unborn New Zealand children who are poisoned, violently sucked from their mother’s wombs or brutally and painfully dismembered, their torn bodily remains are treated as medical waste and disposed of at the local tip?”

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Will Christopher Luxon recognise humanity of unborn New Zealanders and their right to life?

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Media Release 5 April 2022

Right to Life is disappointed that the leader of the National Party is refusing to recognise that the unborn child is a human being endowed by its Creator with human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life. The unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, the weakest and most defenceless member of our human family that deserves our respect and protection.

 Right to Life has written three letters to him since his election as leader of the National party asking if he recognises that the unborn child, is a human being, with a right to life. We are disappointed that he has not replied.

The Crimes Act,1961, Section 159, Killing of a child, states that the unborn child does not become a human being with a right to life until it is born. This a legal fiction and a violation of human rights.

Our right to life is bestowed on us at conception by our Creator and it is this human right that makes us truly human. It is the duty of Parliament and the government to protect our human rights. Our right to life is not granted to us by Parliament or by the government.

Our right to life is a human rights issue, it is not a religious issue. Human life begins at conception, this is biological fact not a theological fact.

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

Christopher Luxon in his maiden speech applauded William Wilberforce for his tireless work to recognise Negros as human beings with a right to life and to abolish slavery. It was an appalling injustice to deny that black people were not human beings and were not bearers of human rights. Today it is an appalling injustice to deny that unborn children are not human beings with a right to life until they are born. This is the paramount human rights issue of this era.

Christopher Luxon also commendably proclaimed that he was, ”absolutely feminist.” Upholding the humanity of the unborn child is absolutely feminist. For it recognises the dignity of women and pregnancy.

Right to Life hopes that Christopher Luxon will be inspired by the example and words of William Wilberforce. who said,” let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.” and “you may choose to look the other way but you can never say that you did not know.”

Today the humanity and right to life of our unborn the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family are being cruelly denied.

Right to Life requests that Christopher Luxon follows the heroic example of William Wilberforce and publicly declares that he recognises that unborn children are one of us and are human beings from conception endowed with an inalienable right to life. May he be the passionate political leader and advocate that our unborn desperately need.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

UN World Down Syndrome Day 21st March 2022

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Media Release 22 March 2022

Government’s search and destroy screening programme results in 90% of unborn children with Down syndrome being violently killed each year in the sanctuary of their mother’s womb. The most dangerous place for a New Zealander today with Down syndrome is in its mother’s womb. The government authorises and funds the killing of the unborn with Down syndrome refuses to reveal to the community the number of these children that are killed each year.

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

In New Zealand around 66% (2/3) of all pregnancies with Down syndrome end in abortion. Not all pregnancies are screened, however, of those diagnosed through pre-natal screening, almost all are aborted at over 90%.  In Denmark it is 98%, in the United Kingdom it is 90% and in the USA it is 67%.

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 as valuable members of our families and community. When a diagnosis indicates Down syndrome, the women is encouraged to terminate the life of her child whose life is considered incompatible with life. 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.

In March 2020 the New Zealand Parliament passed the Abortion Legislation Bill which allows for the killing of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome up to birth.

The architect of this evil legislation was the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who believes that unborn children are not human beings and don’t have a right to life until they are born. Her government believe 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 2022, the World Down Syndrome Day theme focuses on “inclusion”.

How can these children have inclusion in our community when they don’t have recognition of their right to life from conception? The World Health Organisation recently called for the elimination of Down syndrome. As there is no cure for Down syndrome the only way to eliminate it is by killing every child with it before they are born.

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. 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 limit on the 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.

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation, who is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life. Our 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 N.Z. Inc.

Safe areas criminalise voicing opposition to killing unborn children

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Media Release 19 March 2022

Right to Life believes that the government of Jacinda Ardern, having succeeded in passing the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 to effectively provide for the killing of unborn children up to birth, is now implementing its plan to silence all dissent and to force the community to accept and believe that the violent murder of the unborn is in the seductive words of the Prime Minister, “a reproductive health choice for women.” This is seeking to make lies respectable and the murder of the unborn acceptable.

The Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion [safe area] Amendment Bill now makes it a crime to oppose violence against women and the killing of unborn children within a designated safe area of 150 metres around abortion facilities. The bill had the support of 62 Labour MPs, 24 National MPs, 10 Green, 10 ACT and 2 Maori MPs. The bill was opposed by 9 National and 3 Labour MPs. This was supposed to be a conscience vote but it is believed that Labour MPs were, with several exceptions required to vote for the bill.

Right to Life believes that this is but the first step in the government’s secret agenda in its war against women to suppress all dissent against the violence of abortion on women and their precious unborn. Right to Life expects that the government’s hate speech laws will criminalise any speech that opposes abortion, this will be a threat to churches that teach that abortion is a violation of the fifth commandment, intrinsically evil and offensive to our Creator. The government knows that it is necessary to have the total support of the media to achieve their objective.

In 2021 the government invested $55 million in the media to obtain their support under the guise of “promoting responsible journalism.” Right to Life believes that we now have a media that has abandoned its duty as the fourth estate and has become the servant of the government by promoting propaganda in place of truth, the community are not deceived.

The designated safe area violates our human rights, it is a tyranny that permits the suppression of our human rights of free speech, assembly and communication which are intended to be protected by the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

Parliament has now made it a crime to offer compassionate and loving help to women seeking to kill their child, to offer them information about life affirming alternatives such as parenting and adoption. This will include the family and father of an unborn child who want to offer help to prevent the killing of the child. This is a crime against women. Any persons committing this crime may be arrested, charged with this offence, brought to the court and on conviction fined $1,000.

It will not be a crime however to demonstrate in support of killing the unborn or to offer support and encouragement for abortion. Persons doing so are exercising their right to free speech, assembly and communication and will have the protection of the Police.

Right to Life will not rest until this anti-life and anti-feminist legislation is repealed and our right to free speech, assembly and communication is upheld.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Parliament Passes Controversial Safe Area Bill

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Media Release 16 March 2022

Parliament passes controversial Safe Area Bill

Escalates War on Women and Unborn

Right to Life is disappointed that Parliament has shamefully escalated the war on women and the unborn by passing the controversial Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion [Safe area] Amendment bill at its third reading by 108 to 12 votes.

 Right to Life commends the 12 courageous MPs who voted against this bill.

This legislation violates our human rights of free speech, assembly, communication and freedom of religion. The legislation provides the Minister of Health with the authority to establish  a buffer zone of 150 metres around every abortion facility in New Zealand should he consider it desirable even though it may not be requested by the abortion provider.

This a farcical Act that seeks to address a problem that does not exist in NZ.

Parliament has chosen to ignore the evidence that there is absolutely no need for this unjust law.

The electorate should remember at the next election not to vote for those MPs who voted for this anti-life and anti-human rights bill.

  • Completely ignored the overwhelming opposition of written and oral submissions made by the public. The Committee  received 914 written submissions. There was overwhelming opposition to the bill with 635 submissions being opposed (70%)  and only 175 in support (19%), 103 submissions were considered neutral.(11%).
  • Ignored the advice of the Law Commission to the Minister of Justice that this bill was not necessary, as the Summary Offences Act addressed any potential intimidation and harassment of women and staff.
  • Ignored the fact that District Health Boards and abortion providers did not seek “safe areas” as they did not consider them necessary.
  • Ignored the fact that Right to Life’s Official Information Act requests to the 20 District Health Boards seeking the number of written and oral complaints received in the last two years from women complaining of intimidation and harassment, revealed that there were no complaints either oral or in writing, not even one.

Right to Life  believes that the purposes of this Act are:

  • To normalise the killing of the unborn in abortion as health care.
  • To demonise and harass those who are opposed to the killing of the unborn and to suppress dissent
  • To distract attention away from the real intimidation and violence that is inflicted on women and their unborn in the abortion facility. The very real violence is inflicted on women inside the facility where her child is poisoned, sucked from her womb or violently and painfully dismembered.
  • To protect the abortion industry by preventing the presence of persons within a safe area offering help to a woman to choose life for her child.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

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