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New Zealand pro-abortion movement challenges US Supreme Court

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Media Release 9 June 2022

The angry and strident, delusional pro-abortion advocates in New Zealand not only deny the right to life of children in the womb, support the violence of abortion against women, believe that every woman has the right to kill her child before it is born, but now are also disrespectful of the rule of law and the democratic process in the United States by attacking the United States Supreme Court.

 ALRANZ, a small vocal group have drafted a letter (see link here)  to be presented to the US ambassador attacking the US Supreme Court for allegedly illegally posing a threat to the civil and human rights of United States citizens.

It is outrageous and disgraceful that this small group should attack the Supreme Court in the United States because they fear that the Court is considering overturning the notorious Roe v Wade decision which in 1973 inflicted on  American women and their precious unborn a reign of terror and bloodshed that has resulted in the violent killing of more than 64 million  innocent and defenceless unborn children. Why does ALRANZ approve of this killing and is terrified that it might stop?

The Supreme Court is expected to overturn Roe v Wade a decision written by Justice Harry Blackmun in 1973 which constitutes one of the most unjust decisions made by the Court. It was badly decided by ill-informed men and had no basis in the constitution the law or history of the United States or in English Common Law. International law is silent on abortion and there is no human right to abortion.

The overthrow of Roe Wade will then acknowledge the right of States to legislate to protect their unborn children from being killed before birth. There are 19 States that would ban abortion and 7 that would severely restrict abortion. Why is ALRANZ opposed to the States legislating to protect their women and the lives of their unborn?

The ALRANZ letter has been signed by Jan Logie MP, Green Party. There were 198 other signatories whose names have been kept secret. It is believed that among this number there were many MPs.

Right to Life believes that it is improper and disgraceful for an MP to sign a letter to the US government criticising the US Supreme Court for acting illegally and violating human rights. Right to Life intends to write to the Speaker, the Right Hon. Trevor Mallard, requesting that he should investigate this serious matter.

The letter was also signed by the School of Population Health at the Auckland University. This is a taxpayer funded organisation and Right to Life believes that is highly improper and disgraceful for it to sign this letter attacking the US Supreme Court. The Abortion Providers Group representing the abortion industry in New Zealand also signed. They are fearful that the anticipated abortion law reform with recognition of the humanity of the unborn child and increased protection for women and unborn children would be a serious threat to their industry.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. 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.

International Women’s Day 2022

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Media Release 8 March 2022

International Women’s Day 2022

Right to Life supports the United Nations recognised International Women’s Day celebrated on 8th March. The theme for 2022 “gender equality for a sustainable future-break the bias”.

 The Prime Minister, on International Women’s Day in 2020, stated that we should, ”help improve women’s access to equal opportunities” an admirable objective, but what opportunities does a normal healthy female have, who has been violently poisoned, sucked from her mother’s womb or dismembered limb from limb in a public hospital by a doctor employed by the State under the pretence that this is an essential health service with unlimited funding?

Please don’t tell us that you believe in women’s equality when you refuse to recognise that the unborn child is a human being, endowed with a right to life, a member of our family and a member of the team of five million.

We need to end discrimination against women and gender based violence. The greatest violence against women is the killing of their children in the sanctuary of the womb. It is estimated that in 2021 there were 56 million children in the world murdered before they were born, under the guise of health care.

How can we have gender equality when the most dangerous place for a female today is in her mother’s womb, when one in five females are killed before they are born?

The Police in New Zealand receive 100,000 family violence calls each year. It is estimated that 80% of family violence is not reported. There are 3,500 convictions against men for violence inflicted on women. Each year there are 14 women who are killed by their partner or ex partner. New Zealand has the highest rate of family violence in the developed world. Violence against women starts in the womb.

Nearly half of the children conceived are female. What greater violence is there against women than to be killed in the mother’s womb?

Should we then be surprised that if we condone the violence of abortion against women that we are living in an increasingly violent society with an increase in domestic violence?

If we truly want to live in a society that respects and honours women we must first respect and protect expectant mothers.  At conception every child including the female child, is endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life and the right to be born.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Is Stuff anti-life and anti-feminist?

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Is Stuff anti-life and anti-feminist?

Media Release 15 December 2021

Right to Life is concerned that Stuff, the owner of many newspapers in New Zealand, is unfairly criticising Christopher Luxon, the leader of the National Party for being opposed to the violent killing of the unborn and the vulnerable by assisted suicide and euthanasia.

 Andrea Vance , a highly respected senior journalist at Stuff, recently wrote ” Luxon’s views speak volumes about a disdainful attitude to women.” She accused him of being a fundamentalist and states, “He claims to be pro-life, a phrase American conservatives use to cloak the underlying misogyny of anti-abortion legislation.”

New Zealand needs leaders of political parties and Members of Parliament who have a fundamental belief in the sanctity of  every human being from conception to natural death.

Stuff should be celebrating that Christopher Luxon

  • Believes that human life begins at conception and that every child is endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.
  • Believes it is always wrong to kill another innocent human being, especially the violent killing of defenceless and innocent unborn children.
  • Believes that the poisoning and the suctioning of the child or its violent dismemberment in its mother’s womb is murder and a crime and not in the words of Jacinda Ardern “a reproductive choice for women.” When asked on Newshub on 1st December to confirm if abortion is tantamount to murder, he said: “That’s what a pro-life position is.”

Right to Life believes that abortion is violence against women and that women deserve respect, love and help to choose life for their child.

Andrea Vance is a distinguished and highly acclaimed journalist who mistakenly believes that her views are feminist. Authentic feminism is inclusive, non-violent and protective of children. More than 12,000 children are violently killed every year in New Zealand with more than 6,000 being female. If Andrea is really a feminist, why does she not support their right to be born?

Right to Life questions Stuff’s impartiality being aware that the government recently gave $55 million to the media to promote “responsible journalism.“

Stuff’s website states: “Our journalism will remain free from political or commercial influence as our company charter enshrines, Stuff’s source of revenue does not affect impartiality or objectivity of our journalists , the investigations we undertake or how we scrutinise the powerful.” 

There is a disturbing and declining trust in the media revealed in a recent poll conducted by the Auckland University. There is an urgent need for the media to regain this trust by promoting equality and by defending the right to life of all New Zealanders from conception and to support political leaders and Members of Parliament who defend our God given right to life.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Family Planning – promoting a culture of death

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Media Release 1 September 2021

Right to Life is concerned that Family Planning in their war against women and their precious unborn children are seeking to deceive women into believing that the murder of the unborn child in a medical abortion is a miscarriage.

 Family Planning states on its web site that ”an early medical abortion brings on a miscarriage similar to a natural miscarriage.”

“Two medications are taken for an EMA. Usually, the medications are taken two days apart, but if the pregnancy is less than seven weeks (49 days) you may be able to take both medications on the same day.”

“Once you have taken the medication you go home to miscarry the pregnancy.”

Family Planning is seeking to deceive women into believing that a medical abortion is similar to a miscarriage, however it isn’t. The medical definition of a miscarriage is, ”spontaneous or unplanned expulsion of a fetus from the womb, before 20 weeks”.

To call an abortion a miscarriage is untrue and is deeply offensive to women who have experienced pain and grief from the tragic loss of a much loved and wanted baby.

Family Planning is at the forefront in promoting the killing of children in the womb who are unwanted. It supported the decriminalisation of abortion and the right of women to kill their baby for any reason up to birth. It does not recognise the humanity of the unborn child nor does it recognise the child’s right to life. It does not recognise the unborn child as a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

Family Planning is the major abortion referral agency in New Zealand.

In 2020, 246 unborn children were killed at its Tauranga clinic.

Family Planning is a loyal affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation [IPPF] that was responsible for the killing of more than one million unborn children in 2020. Planned Parenthood supports the forced abortion policy of the Chinese government.

The IPPF promotes worldwide a culture of death under the guise of promoting a “woman’s right to choose”,  but this is a lie. The IPPF and the NZFPA are complicit in the most horrendous human rights abuses against women that the world has ever known. The Chinese Family Planning Association became an affiliate of IPPF in 1983. The IPPF has funded the Chinese Family Planning Association and has cooperated with it in implementing China’s notorious one child family policy, which has now been relaxed.

China’s one child family policy started in 1979, and has resulted in forced abortions, 196 million compulsory sterilisations, the mandatory insertion of 403 million forced intrauterine devices, punitive fines, imprisonment, destruction of homes and loss of employment.

Sex selection abortions have resulted in 37 million missing girls. Since 1971 there have been 330 million abortions in China.

Right to Life challenges Family Planning to tell the women of New Zealand how the Association  can condone the massive human rights abuses against women in China and claim that they support a women’s right to choose to have a baby?

Right to Life asks, why does the government continue to fund IPPF and the NZFPA in its unrelenting war against women. Why too does the media refuse to expose the anti- life agenda of the NZFPA and treats Family Planning as the champions of women?

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

International Women’s Day – The right of Women to be Born.

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Media Release 8 March 2021

Today is International Women’s Day, with the theme “choose to challenge.” Right to Life chooses to challenge and passionately supports women’s equality and believes that respect for the rights of women begins in the womb. At conception every child, including the female child, is endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.

Today, thanks to the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the extremist anti-feminist and anti-life Abortion Legislation Act the most dangerous place for a woman is in her mother’s womb.

Unborn children including females may now be killed for any reason up to 20 weeks. After 20 weeks they may be killed up to birth if a doctor considers it “appropriate.” Every year more than 12,000 unborn children, which includes nearly 6,000 innocent and defenceless female children are violently killed in their mother’s womb

How can Jacinda Ardern claim to support gender equality and the rights of women when she refuses to accept that females in the womb are human beings endowed with a right to life?  She has declared that it was not a crime to kill an unborn child, including a female child as it was not a human being and did not have human rights until it was born. Authentic feminism is non-violent, non-discriminatory and defends the weak and defenceless.

The Hon. Jan Tinetti,  in a media release stated that the government was celebrating women. How can you celebrate women when your government is funding each year the violent killing of more than 6,000 females in their mother’s womb?

The Prime Minister, on International Women’s Day in 2020, stated that we should, ”help improve women’s access to equal opportunities,” an admirable objective, but what opportunities does a normal healthy female have who has been violently dismembered limb from limb in a public Hospital by a doctor employed by the State under the pretence that this is an essential health service with unlimited funding? Please don’t tell us that you believe in women’s equality.

Right to Life is passionate about women’s rights and is campaigning for legal recognition of the right of women to be born. It is disappointing that the Prime Minister does not currently support the right of women to be born.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Why has the feminist movement betrayed women?

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Media Release 10 December 2020

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women. Abortion betrays the basic feminist principles of nonviolence, non-discrimination and justice for all. Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women—and that women at the behest of men have settled for less. Women deserve better.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, claims to be a progressive, republican feminist, however sadly she is not. As a woman and a mother why is she not at the forefront of defending women and their precious unborn? How can she claim to be a feminist when she was the architect of the notorious anti-feminist Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which undermines the dignity and status of women, and denies the humanity and right to life of their precious unborn?

More than a century ago, the same women who fought for women’s rights and for the rights of slaves to be free also fought to protect women and children from abortion. Right to Life and the pro-life movement today stand with women to protect women and children.

Feminism was born of abolition. All people are equal. Not all choices are equal. We envision a better day, a day when womanhood is celebrated, mothers are supported, fatherhood is honoured and every child is cherished.

The feminist movement has the responsibility of promoting protection of the human rights of women from conception to natural death, the foundation right being the right to life. The feminist movement should be at the forefront in seeking  protection of women in the first nine months of life in their mother’s womb. It was in the 1970s that the feminist movement was infiltrated by those who promoted abortion. It is important that those who are now promoting a dangerous anti life and anti feminist agenda are exposed and challenged.

Family Planning, when founded in the 1950s, was opposed to abortion. It now claims to represent the interests of women and genuinely believed that women would not be emancipated and truly free until the law was changed to make it no longer a crime to kill an unborn child.

They also believed that the stigma associated with the killing of the innocent and defenceless should be silenced by making the killing of the unborn “a reproductive health service.”

Family Planning is aware that many women having an abortion are subject to coercion and domestic violence. Right to Life advocates unconditional support for women who lovingly place their babies into the arms of adoptive couples. We applaud birth mothers, who say that “adoption can be an empowering option for women.”

We stand in solidarity with women who have been betrayed by those they count on the most, with women who have underestimated their own strength, with women who have experienced abortion and are silent no more, with young men and women who mourn their missing siblings. We mourn with those pregnant women who naively went to Family Planning seeking help and were offered :assistance” and were encouraged to terminate the life of their precious child. We mourn with men who weren’t given a choice or who contributed to an abortion that they now regret.

All of this is unthinkable.

As we work together toward that vision, pro-life feminists hope that our sisters who promote abortion will one day realize that unborn children are not their property either and that violence against them is equally unacceptable. Let us not need to spend another 150 years establishing that the children we bear are also persons.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Is Jacinda Ardern a good role model for our children?

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 The Prime Minister, who has many fine qualities, is giving our children the message that traditional marriage exclusively between one woman and one man does not matter and that it is acceptable to deliberately have children outside of wedlock.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is asking us to elect her to lead our nation for another three years. It is a great privilege to be chosen to lead our nation. The person who is chosen to lead should be a role model for our children and grandchildren. Those who govern do so with the permission of the governed.

It is a matter of great concern for many in our community that the Prime Minister is giving a message to our children that a marriage exclusively between one man and one woman does not matter. This is an anti-feminist message that is harmful to women, men and children.

The natural family of exclusively – one man and one woman, is the foundation of a strong and healthy society. Where the natural family goes, so does society. It is imperative that those who wish to have our permission to govern us recognize that the state is at the service of the natural family. At this moment in history the natural family of exclusively one man and one woman is the object of numerous forces seeking to destroy it. The future of our nation and the well-being of society are intimately tied to the good of the family.

A government orientated toward public welfare and responsible parents, owe it to the next generation to prepare them for natural marriage exclusively between one woman and one man as a family. The electorate has a right and a duty to ensure that they elect only those who are going to defend and promote the natural family and be role models for our children and grandchildren.

New Zealand has a birth rate of 1.879. The replacement birth rate is 2.1. Right to Life  wrote to the Prime Minister on 1st March 2018 asking under the Official Information Act if she supports the natural family and is concerned at our below replacement. The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Mike Munro, refused our request on the grounds that the information did not exist. Do we want a Prime Minister who does not support the natural family and is unconcerned that our nation is committing demographic suicide?

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

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Parliamentary Population and Development Group Ignores Population Crisis

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Media Release 20 July 2020

Since the introduction of the contraceptive pill into New Zealand in 1961 the government has been unwittingly funding a war on women, children and the family.

Wednesday 11 July was World Population Day which focused on the importance of population issues. To mark the day the New Zealand Parliamentarians’ Group on Population and Development (NZPPD) issued a media release to draw attention to the human rights linked to sexual and reproductive health. Right to Life questions the NZPPD’s focus on sexual and reproductive health which includes the promotion of contraception, sterilisation, abortion and sex education.

 It is disappointing that the NZPPD does not recognise that contraception, sterilisation and abortion represent violence against women. A genuine feminist position that supports the dignity and human rights of women would be seeking to protect women from this culture of violence and death.

 The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern supports the war on women with contraception, sterilisation and abortion. She was the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 which makes it no longer a crime to kill an unborn baby. In response to an Official Information Act request from Right to Life, she advised that she had no policy to support a birth rate of 2.1 or to promote marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman. 

Contraception. sterilisation and abortion will not make women free but slaves to men who refuse to honour the dignity of women who are called by our Creator to co-operate with Him in creating new life. 

Women have an absolute right to decide if and when they wish to become pregnant. Why is it in the interest of women to take powerful drugs which simulate a permanent pregnancy in the body in order that they are available to men?

Contraception is a serious threat to the future of this nation. The governments continued promotion and funding of contraception is contributing to the destruction of our community. It is disappointing that the NZPPD does not recognise that New Zealand is facing a demographic crisis. Our birth rate is a catastrophic 1.89  and has been in decline since 1960. In 1959 our birth rate was a commendable 4.026. We believe that It was the introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961 which was the cause of the birth rate dramatically declining to 2.055 in 1981 to below replacement level. This is a population crisis, why is the NZPPD, Parliament and the government not concerned?

Contributing to the population crisis is the dramatic decline in traditional marriages which are exclusively between one woman and one man. Our marriage rate at 9.8 per 1,000 persons over the age of 16 in 2019 was the lowest since 1960, the peak was 45.5 in 1971. Contraception has adversely affected marriage as men can now have ready access to women without the need to make a permanent commitment to women in marriage.

There is a correlation between a decline in marriage rates and an impact on children and families. A reduction  in marriage rates could have a negative social impact on children with an increase in child poverty and abuse. Why is the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction not concerned?

If the government is really serious about population issues why is it not addressing the crisis that confronts us?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Authorised by Paul Ives, 22C McBrattneys Rd, Dallington, Christchurch 8061


 

NZ Government pressured unlawfully by UN CEDAW committee to decriminalise abortion.

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Media Release 27 July 2018

Right to life is concerned that this UN Committee continues to unlawfully pressurise the New Zealand government and other governments to decriminalise abortion. It is abhorrent that the CEDAW Committee has hijacked the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. The ultimate discrimination of women is to be violently killed before birth in their mother’s womb.

Jan Logie, the Under Secretary for Justice led the government delegation at the 8th Periodic Review by the CEDAW Committee at Geneva on 12 July 2018. Members representing NGOs, the New Zealand Family Planning Association and the Abortion Law Reform Association NZ also attended the Review and made a joint submission supporting the decriminalisation of abortion.

It is disappointing that the government colludes with the UN Committees in hijacking the Convention in support of the government’s determination to decriminalise abortion in New Zealand. Right to Life fully supports the Convention as originally drafted  and signed by the New Zealand government in 1980.The UN Committee unlawfully continues to interpret Article 12 of the Convention to include abortion as part of family planning services, contrary to the intentions of the General Assembly that has repeatedly rejected abortion as part of family planning services.

Clearly, the intent of Article 12 was to protect women, especially during or after pregnancy or lactation, by ensuring adequate health care to protect mother and child. Nowhere in Article 12 or in any other provision of CEDAW is there a so called “right” to abortion or abortifacients. “Family planning” and “health care services” are mentioned, but not abortion. Right to Life requests that the government cease using the unlawful interpretation of the CEDAW Convention to promote discrimination against women through its proposal to decriminalise the killing of the unborn and to make abortion a health issue of choice for women. The government should uphold the Convention by opposing the ultimate discrimination of women, the killing of women before birth.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

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