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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

Killing their unborn children with lethal drugs further victimises Women

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Media Release 13 February 2021

Right to Life is opposed to the government’s promotion of medical abortions that impose on women all the responsibility for killing their defenceless unborn child. There is no place in New Zealand for death drugs that are designed to kill babies.

Dr Ayesha Verrall, the Associate Minister of Health has been given the deplorable responsibility of promoting increased access to the killing of the unborn, preferably early and by lethal drugs. Right to Life believes that Dr Verrall, an infectious disease expert considers pregnancy a disease that requires treatment.

Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not health care. There is no medical condition known to humans that can be treated by killing a child in the womb. The government can do more for our women than funding the killing of more than 13,000 unborn New Zealanders every year. Dr Verrall can do more for women than offer a violent and painful death for their child.

Every day an estimated 36 unborn children are taken to hospitals and clinics in New Zealand to be poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or violently dismembered. Remember that these are potentially normal pregnancies mostly terminated for socio-economic reasons.

The Abortion Supervisory Committee in its report to Parliament in 1988 stated, “that the emphasis should be on education aimed at achieving a higher proportion of planned pregnancies than perpetuating the present unwieldy system of authorising the termination of potentially normal pregnancies on pseudo-legal grounds.”

With a medical abortion the women accepts full responsibility for the killing of her child, for it is the woman who chooses to take the lethal drugs. She alone bears the guilt, the remorse, the grief and the pain. A surgical abortion is something that is done to her by a doctor and the guilt is shared. Why are we allowing the government to inflict more pain and guilt on women with its imposition of chemical murder promoted as health care? RU-486 cheapens the value of human life even more than surgical abortions.

Information released by the Ministry of Health to Right to Life under the Official Information Act reveal that in 2020 there were 5,349 medical abortions an increase of 47.92 % over the 3,617 medical abortions performed in 2019. Surgical abortions fell from 9,262 in 2019 to 7,861 in 2020.

Medical abortions are unsafe. A Finnish study conducted in 2009 of the data on all Finnish women who had an abortion between 2000 and 2006 and were of a gestation of 63 days or less found that that even under the best conditions, chemical abortions had four times more complications than surgical abortions. Women who took abortion pills haemorrhaged over seven times more often than surgical patients, they had more failed abortions which required surgical follow-up, and suffered a 20 times greater risk of operative injuries from emergency surgery compared to surgical abortion patients.

Why are our women seeking an abortion not being given this information? As of December 2018, the US Federal Drug Admin reports that 24 women have died after taking Mifepristone for medical abortions.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Ministry of Health Falsely Claims Women don’t Die from Abortion – Safer than Birth

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Media Release 6 February 2022

Right to Life challenges the claims of Clare Perry, Deputy Director General of Health that abortion is safer than birth and that there is no record of women dying from an abortion in New Zealand since 1977.

 The claim that abortion is safer than birth is false and demonstrably untrue. The objective of this cruel lie is to deceive women into choosing to kill their unborn child on the pretext that they are endangering their lives by allowing their child to be born. We will never know how many women died in an abortion, because to avoid shame and humiliation, the death of the woman will be attributed to another cause.

Right to Life wrote to the Minister of Health in January, to express our concerns at the injustice of abortion being publicly funded. In response he directed Clare Perry to reply.

Abortion is never safe for either mother or child. The sole objective of abortion is the violent killing of a defenceless child. Since 1977 there have been more than 546 000  children killed before birth. More than 270 000 of these babies killed were female and future women who died in an abortion. Why don’t these unborn future women count? Abortion is also never safe for the mother as it wounds her physically, mentally and spiritually.

A maternal death is that of a woman who dies in child birth or from any cause related to, or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy.

The Health Quality & Safety Commission NZ advised RTL that there were 28 maternal deaths reported in New Zealand between 2006 and 2016. Seven of these deaths were the result of suicide within 42 days of having an abortion. These tragic deaths are irrefutable evidence that women are dying from the grief and remorse of abortion.

 Every maternal death is a terrible tragedy, that the death is suicide following the appalling grief of losing your precious child in an abortion is heart rendering.

Right to Life acknowledges that the circumstances around suicide are complex and that there may be other contributing factors such as mental ill health. Right to Life believes that these seven suicides are just the tip of the iceberg as it is believed that many women commit suicide many years later as a direct result of an abortion.

These findings concurred with a large record-based study of 600,000 women conducted in Finland in 1997 which found that women who chose abortion over birth were six times more likely to die by suicide in the year following the pregnancy.

Right to Life estimates that as a consequence of the more than 546,000 abortions performed since 1978, there have been more than 25 maternal deaths by suicide following an abortion.

These statistics dispel the myth propagated by Family Planning and the pro-abortion movement that abortion is safe and that since 1977 no woman has died as a result of having an abortion. Every abortion kills a defenceless and innocent child in the womb, and wounds and sadly sometimes kills a grieving mother. Both abortion and suicide are cries for help from women in despair. Stop saying that abortion does not hurt women.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Abortion Grief Significant Suicide Risk for New Zealand Women  

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It is a tragedy that seven grieving women killed themselves within forty-two days of having an abortion in New Zealand between 2006 and 2016. 

This information was provided under the Official Information Act to Right to Life by the Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand. The Commission advised that there were 28 maternal suicides during that period and that, ‘around a quarter of maternal suicides occur following a termination of pregnancy.’ 

‘maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy (miscarriage, termination or birth), irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management. It does not include accidental or incidental causes of death of a pregnant woman.’

Right to Life respectfully asks our Prime Minister, (who we know is genuinely concerned about women’s health), if she intends to institute a national study into the damage done to women’s health by abortion and enquire why innocent and grieving women are resorting to suicide to end their grief and pain. Fathers also commit suicide in despair, because they cannot protect their precious child from being killed by an abortionist.

Right to Life acknowledges that the circumstances around suicide are complex and that there may be other contributing factors such as mental ill-health. Right to Life believes that these seven suicides are just the tip of the iceberg as it is believed that many women commit suicide many years later as a direct result of an abortion. [Read more…]

Emeritus Professor David Fergusson dies

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Emeritus Professor David Fergusson, the University of Otago researcher behind the success of the Christchurch Health and Development study, has died at the age of 74, after a battle with lung cancer.

Prof Fergusson worked in the Department of Psychological Medicine and led the 35-year study of a birth cohort of 1265 children born in the Christchurch region in mid-1977.

The study has informed government policy decisions on topics such as child sexual abuse, youth drug use and abortion.

University vice chancellor Harlene Hayne, who wrote several book chapters with Prof Fergusson,  said in a statement today he was “considered an international leader among life course researchers, using sophisticated methods to extract maximum impact from social survey data”.

To people who worked with him, Prof Fergusson was “both our harshest critic and our fiercest ally”, Prof Hayne said.

“To described him as a national treasure is perhaps the only fitting way to capture the enormity and importance of his contributions to his adopted country over 40-plus years.”

“His work ethic was second to none,” Prof Hayne said.

“This work ethic was driven by the desire to generate knowledge that would make life better for the most disadvantaged among us. His strong personality and sheer force of will has touched many New Zealanders in different ways.”

After retiring from the university in 2015, Prof Fergusson worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Social Development.

Otago Daily Times, 5 October 2018

Abortion’s Negative Impact on Women’s Health: Maternal Mortality Part One

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The following article is a re-post from National Right to Life published November 3, 2017 and is by Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research.

The abortion industry and its medical and media allies constantly repeat the refrain that abortion is safer than childbirth and that it is an overall health benefit for women. A new report from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), the British pro-life group, says that just isn’t so.

The comprehensive, heavily footnoted 28-page report, titled “Abortion and Women’s Health” looks at several of the physical risks and psychological consequences of abortion. The report is available to download at the SPUC website.

SPUC published the report last week on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act.

The author of the report is Dr. Greg Pike, from Australia, the Founding Director of the Adelaide Centre for Bioethics and Culture. He has participated in research in neurobiology at the University of Adelaide and worked on trials of new laparoscopic techniques at the department of surgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Dr. Pike has numerous medical and bioethics publications to his credit and has served on different government medical ethics committees in Australia. [Read more…]

“Abortion Does Not Preserve a Woman’s Life, It Preserves Her Lifestyle,” Writer Says

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Image result for abortion on demand and without apologyThe following article is a re-post from LifeNews.com and is by Micaiah Bilger   Dec 16, 2016

Abortion activists have enjoyed quite a bit of media attention lately to voice their gripes about new abortion regulations in Texas and Ohio, the incoming Congress, Donald Trump’s administration and more.

The Blaze columnist Matt Walsh recently wrote about a common thread in many of the abortion activists’ comments – an ironic claim that their abortion work is life-saving.

Walsh wrote:

One common theme amidst the leftist freak-out is that this law [in Ohio banning abortions after 20 weeks] is “dangerous” because it might force a woman in a high risk pregnancy to carry a child to term, killing her in the process.

This is the fabled “life of the mother” abortion excuse that we’re sure to hear ad nauseum anytime any state attempts to pass even the most meager regulations on the abortion industry. According to pro-abortion radicals, even the Texas law requiring humane treatment of dead babies might somehow result in the deaths of countless women. In Abortion World, abortion saves more lives than it takes. Pregnancy is more fatal than pancreatic cancer and the only thing preventing millions of women from dying from it is abortion. Pregnancy is a disease and abortion is the cure, they believe.

Here’s how one reader put it to me through email last night:

Matt, many women would be DEAD without abortion. Is that what you want? I thought you’re “pro-life”???? What if a woman needs to get an abortion to save her life. Are YOU going to tell her she has to DIE for the sake of a fetus? Is the GOVERNMENT going to tell her that? You’re not “pro-life”…. you’re pro-birth. You don’t give a sh*t about the women who will now die in Ohio because you think you should have a say over what they do with their bodies.

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Abortions Dramatically Increase Rate of Preterm Deliveries and Disabled Children

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Image result for abortion risks for pre-termMedia Release 30th November 2016

The rate of preterm births in New Zealand is 8 per cent a rate that has increased 2.1 per cent in the last 20 years. This rate has increased dramatically in the developed world and is correlated with the abortion rate.

There are 5,000 babies born each year in New Zealand who are born before 37 weeks gestation. In 2012 there were 448 fetal deaths, of which 363 were preterm deaths. Researchers believe that 40 per cent of these are caused as a direct result of a previous abortion or repeat abortions. The annual cost of care of preterm babies in New Zealand is an estimated $40 million.

Abortion drastically increases risk of pre-term  and low-weight births. Women who have one or more abortions face a dramatically increased risk of giving birth to a pre-term or low birth weight baby in a subsequent pregnancy. This is the conclusion that a team of scientists came to after studying a meta analysis of 36 studies that included over a million women ( 1,047,683 women).

Why are women considering a surgical abortion not being told of the real risks including the increased risk of a preterm delivery and a disabled child in future pregnancies? [Read more…]

Abortion linked to mental health problems down the road, study finds

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The following post is a re-post from the Angelusnews.com website published 4th September 2016

Washington D.C., Sep 3, 2016 / 04:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Abortion during the late teen and early adult years raises a woman’s risk of mental health problems and may be linked to almost one in ten cases of these women’s mental disorders, a new study says. “Evidence from the United States confirms previous findings from Norway and New Zealand that, unlike other pregnancy outcomes, abortion is consistently associated with a moderate increase in risk of mental health disorders during late adolescence and early adulthood,” said the study’s abstract.

The study, conducted by sociology professor Donald Paul Sullins of The Catholic University of America, was published July 22, 2016 in the peer-reviewed Sage Open Medicine journal. After adjusting for demographic differences and other factors, the study found that abortion during these years elevated a woman’s risk of mental health disorder by 45 percent. “One-eleventh of the prevalence of mental disorders examined over the period were attributable to abortion,” the study’s abstract said. [Read more…]

Viral video with over 5 million views is changing minds about abortion

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imageThe following video posted by Live Action News has been described by some viewers as the saddest video they have ever seen. It has been accredited with changing the minds of  Pro-abortion supporters. Please be cautioned this is not a pleasant video to watch.  Click here or on graphic to view.

A former abortionist is unmasking the lies and secrecy surrounding the  abortion industry in a new educational video project that has gone viral on social media.

In a 4-minute video, Dr. Anthony Levatino reveals the violence of abortion procedures and the risks they pose to women.

Levatino, who performed over 1,200 abortions in the early part of his career as a OB/GYN, describes a second trimester dilation and evacuation abortion procedure, or D&E.

The video, released as part of Live Action’s new educational website, AbortionProcedures.com, garnered over 3 million views within 24 hours on Facebook, and has over 120,000 shares and over 44,000 likes (at the time of the article’s publication). The D&E video is one of four depicting the violence against preborn children committed through the most prevalent abortion procedures in America.

Viewers reacted strongly to the message, and some who identified as “pro-choice” had a change of heart. [Read more…]

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