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Minister of Justice seeks review of abortion laws to make killing of unborn a health service

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Media Release 28 February 2018

Abortion is violence against women and their unborn.

Right to Life, in defence of mothers and their unborn, deplores the decision of the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, to refer the abortion laws to the Law Commission for review. The killing of the unborn is a crime, it is not a health issue. It has been in the Crimes Act since 1856. It is the Minister’s intention to legislate, that the killing of the unborn is no longer a crime but a health service; this is an appalling injustice to women and their precious unborn. It is also his intention to remove expectant mothers and their unborn from the protection of the Crimes Act. 

This proposal will effectively mean that those unborn who are classified as unwanted will be deprived of the protection of the Crimes Act and allowed to be killed.  However the unborn children who are classified as wanted will retain the protection of the Crimes Act and of the state. This is an abhorrent and unprecedented violation of human rights, it is discrimination against the most vulnerable members of our human family! Today the Minister moves the unborn from the protection of the Crimes Act, tomorrow perhaps those with dementia and Alzheimers.  [Read more…]

Government’s Dysfunctional Child Policy Exposes Women to Coercion and Violence

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Media Release Sat 25th Nov 2017

Right to Life is disappointed that the government is now giving a message to fathers of the children of solo mothers that they do not have an obligation to provide for their children.  The government is revoking the requirement of solo mothers to divulge the name of the father of their child. Fathers have a serious moral and legal obligation to provide financial support for the children that they have fathered. The state also has a serious moral obligation to ensure that fathers meet their obligations.

The law requiring fathers to support their children was passed by a National government in 1990. The penalties for non-disclosure were increased by a Helen Clark Labour government in 2005.

However the new Minister of Social Development, Carmel Sepuloni (pictured above) is about to change all that. Right to Life believes Sepuloni lacks credibility when she says that the legislation discriminates against women and against Maori. Green Party Jan Logie, undersecretary for Justice stated that the name of the father was, ”frankly none of the state’s business.” Right to Life begs to differ and the Minister should note that the current law is working. In 2004 there were 19,443 solo parents who were receiving a weekly $28 reduction in their benefit because they had refused to divulge the name of the father of the child. This had reduced to 13,616 parents in 2016. Right to Life asks why are we now going to head in the wrong direction?

In August 2004, the then Labour Minister of Social Development, the Honourable Steve Maharey  stated in Parliament  “It is a rort, and I have said time and time again in this Parliament that fathers must front up to their obligations, and we will make sure they do, as much as we can.”

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Defence of the Unborn Child and the Natural Family – The Real Issues We Face

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take my hand not my life Never before in the history of New Zealand has the natural family and the lives of our unborn faced such serious threats to their existence as they do today.

Right to Life requests that in the interest of the natural family and the protection of the lives of our precious unborn, that New Zealand First concludes a coalition agreement with the National government to govern New Zealand for the term of the next Parliament.

The result of the 2017 election is a repudiation of a culture of death. Jacinda Ardern pledged that on becoming Prime Minister, she would bring a bill to Parliament to decriminalise the murder of the unborn. If she got her way then it would no longer be a crime for an abortionist to kill an unborn child. Rather the unborn child would effectively be regarded as not being human. It would have no right to life whatsoever and would become a chattel,  the property of the mother. The killing of the unborn would become a ‘health service’.  Jacinda Ardern has also refused to acknowledge that the natural family consists exclusively of one woman and one man and that this is the source of the next generation and the very foundation upon which a healthy society is based.

The Labour and Green parties both support the decriminalisation of abortion. A coalition of Labour, Green and New Zealand First would empower Jacinda Ardern to have the government decriminalise abortion. We must not allow this to happen. Politicians who are not committed to protecting and promoting the right to life and the natural family, morally and ethically disqualify themselves from governing. [Read more…]

Why are the Greens Betraying the Aged, the Seriously ill and now the Disabled?

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disabled-elderly The Green Party needs to explain to the disabled members of our community why the majority of its Members of Parliament are committed to supporting the first reading of ACT Leader David Seymour’s infamous End of Life Choice bill . According to a recent poll conducted by the NZ Herald and information provided to Right to Life, two Green MPs have indicated that they will support the bill, five will probably support the bill and six are still undecided.

The majority of Green MPs support sending the bill to a Select Committee to initiate a public discussion and consultation on the desirability of changing the law, to not only allow doctors to kill their patients who are terminally ill or assist in their suicide, but also to allow for doctors to kill the disabled persons who have a  “grievous and irremediable medical condition.” As we know from overseas experience that will just be the start.

Right to Life believes that the Greens have the most anti-life policies of any Party in Parliament and represent a serious threat to the lives of the unborn, the aged, the disabled and the seriously ill.

The Greens acknowledged on the 22nd September 2016 in their Medically Assisted Dying policy, that they supported the killing of the disabled. The policy reads that it did, “Not support the extension of medically-assisted dying to individuals who are not terminally ill, until {our emphasis} New Zealand has in place policies and practices that ensure full social inclusion, including equitable access to health services, for disabled people (see our Disability Policy).”

This section is an absolute affront to members of the disability community and contravenes their policy which is otherwise excellent. It is a declaration by the Greens that they believe that the lives of some disabled New Zealanders are not worth living and that they are prepared to change the law to allow doctors to kill them.

The Green Party’s respect for life is inconsistent. It supports absolute protection for the lives of lizards, native birds and the West Coast giant snail -the Powelliphanta, while at the same time refusing to support the inalienable right to life of our unborn children, the aged, the disabled and the seriously ill.

Right to Life believes that this is a reason why any person who values the sanctity of human life, can not in good conscience, support the Green party at the coming general election.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

A Jacinda Ardern Government Poses a Threat to the Vulnerable

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Media Release 6th August 2017

The appointment of Jacinda Ardern as the new leader of the Labour Party has been the subject of much media coverage.  While Ardern is being presented as the fresh new face of Labour leadership we should also be aware that if she is elected as our Prime Minister, then this will result in a significant threat to vulnerable members of our community. A society can be judged according to how it treats the most vulnerable. If we use this as a criterion then Jacinda Ardern gaining power would be very bad news indeed.

A nation that kills its own children is a nation without a future

On Friday 4th August the Dominion Post featured an article in which journalist Hendry Cook asked Jacinda Ardern the following question: “What is your stance on the current abortion laws?” Her reply is extremely revealing: “I am on record on this one – I feel very strongly that abortion needs to be removed from the Crimes Act, and our current legislation is due for review.”  Such a statement by one who stands as a possible leader of New Zealand is disturbing.

Like many young pro-abortion feminists who see abortion on demand as a non-negotiable, Ardern grew up in the decades following the passing of New Zealand’s Contraception, Sterilization and Abortion Act in 1977. During her youth, abortion rates were at their highest level and she was exposed to the lie that abortion was all about disposing of the ‘products of conception’ and a human right. This view has been proselytised  around the world by forces hostile to life. Such a stance has the embedded assumption that the rights of a women to abort the growing human within her, trumps the child’s right to life.

Ardern has now in fact become the de facto spokesperson for the Abortion Law Reform Association and New Zealand Family Planning. These strong abortion advocates, have been feeding the public misinformation about our abortion laws criminalising women. This is a lie, as it is the abortionist who is liable for prosecution under the Crimes Act. Right to Life believes that it is ALRANZ who is behind an online petition currently mustering support for decriminalisation.

Under Andrew Little, Labour’s official policy with regard to abortion was that if elected, a Labour government would refer the matter to the Law Commission for review and recommendations. However now that Ardern has become leader, she has committed Labour to a policy of decriminalization. Right to Life must point out that this is the official policy of the Green’s party too. A Labour/Greens government would spell the death-knell for more of our unborn children at a time when their humanity has never been more un-contested. Not only would the 20 week gestation cut go, (allowing open slather on the unborn child right up until birth), but it would see abortion allowed for any reason or for that matter, for no reason at all. Is that what we want for New Zealand? The hypocrisy of Labour and the Greens is glaringly obvious. Purporting to care about the marginalised and the weak, both parties are in effect, denying the human rights of those who cannot defend themselves.

Decriminalisation would see abortion numbers going back up at a time when they have been steadily dropping. This would be a denial of the humanity of  the unborn child  and its human rights. The foundational right, being an inalienable right to life. The child would become the property of the mother. Again we have to ask; is this the future New Zealanders want, a future that for many, denies any future at all.

Not only is Labour under Ardern a threat to the unborn; both they and the Greens are campaigning on a policy that threatens life at the other end of the spectrum too. They also support the decriminalization of Euthanasia, which would allow doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide. This would  unquestionably put the elderly, the disabled and the unwell at risk. We are increasingly seeing abuses in overseas jurisdictions who have gone down this dark path. The myth of safeguards in any proposed legislation has been clearly exposed.

Right to Life believes that respect for life is the major issue of this election. The economy, health, housing and education policies may come and go, but once we as a country, legislates for killing as a solution to a perceived problem, then there will is no turning back. Abortion and euthanasia are in fact intrinsic evils and we have a duty to not vote for any political party or candidate who support(s) such evils. Under a Jacinda Ardern led government, the Labour party and the Greens would constitute the most anti-life government New Zealand has ever seen.

The Labour party was founded to protect the family and the right to life of every member of the community. The great Labour Prime Ministers of the past, Michael Joseph Savage, Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, and David Lange all promoted a culture of life and opposed the killing of the vulnerable. It is a tragedy for New Zealand that Jacinda Ardern is at best, unwittingly promoting a culture of death.

Right to Life believes that it is untenable for anyone who supports a culture of life to vote for Jacinda Ardern as our Prime Minister. We call on all those who hold a pro-life ethic, to ensure that they vote for a party that has a pro-life stance.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

 

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https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/u.n.-to-exclude-the-unborn-from-the-right-to-life

Metiria Turei Co Leader of Greens Should Resign From Parliament

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Image result for metiria turei scandalNew Zealanders expect high standards of integrity from those who seek our permission to govern us. Sadly the reputation of Metiria Turei is now tarnished. At a recent Green Party conference she announced that she had lied to WINZ when she was on a domestic purposes benefit. She has confessed to theft and fraud. It is estimated that she has fraudulently obtained $57,000 from WINZ . It is disturbing that it was reported that Metiria Turei’s  announcement received  rapturous applause from the party faithful.

She said that it was her duty to tell her story of 20 years ago. Right to Life asks why now? She has sat in Parliament since 2002 and said nothing. She is using her own story of benefit fraud to shamelessly promote the launching of the Green’s welfare policy. She has expressed no remorse, regret and at the time of the conference, no desire to repay the large sum of money she has fraudulently obtained. It is appalling that this fraud was perpetrated by her to allow her to attend University in order to obtain a law degree. She has the audacity to say that she took the money because she needed it and is only now that she is prepared to pay the money back, if asked. .

Metiria Turei  expects that if the election resulted in a Labour/Green government she will be made a Minister of the Crown. Right to Life believes that the community do not wish to have a person who is a self-confessed fraudster sitting at the head of government. [Read more…]

Green’s Children’s Policy Fatally Flawed

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Image result for metiria tureiRight to Life questions the Green Party’s policy announced by Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei MP,  “We  want every single Kiwi kid to have   a great start to life. That  is a Green Party priority and we make no apologies for that.”

Metiria Turei knows that human life does not start at birth but rather  at conception. The start that every Kiwi kid needs and has, is an inalienable right to  be allowed to be born.  The Green Party’s adherence to a policy which would decriminalise abortion stands in utter contradiction to this right. Right to Life makes no apologies for that statement.

Right to Life does applaud the Green’s commendable objective of addressing child poverty and the positive measures announced by Metiria Turei, however the Green’s are guilty of discriminating against children in the womb. The greatest poverty that can be inflicted on a child is to be deprived of its right to life before it is born.  The Green’s website makes the following statement in relation to it’s “Children’s Policy”

‘Let’s give our children the best possible start in life.’

Lets be quite clear, The best policy to give New Zealand children the best start in life is to allow them to be born and not to kill them. [Read more…]

Greens Continue to Refuse to Respond to Right to Life Questions

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Image result for greens party nzRight to Life makes no apology for speaking up in defense of the right to life of the unborn child the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family. Right to Life is therefore disappointed that over the last ten months the Green party Members of Parliament have declined to respond to any of the eight letters sent to them from our Society. The correspondence was seeking information on important life issues and clarification of the Party’s policies on parental notification, euthanasia, the decriminalisation of abortion, the “Inside Out” sexuality education programme and the Party’s proposal to restrict freedom of speech and assembly outside the Thames Hospital.

Those who govern do so with the consent of the governed. The electorate have an absolute right to know what policies the Green Party has that they hope to implement when in government. It is a serious threat to our Parliamentary democracy when Members of Parliament in the Green Party who we have elected to govern, believe that the electorate has no right to know what its policies are. They ignore us at their peril.

It should be a matter of grave concern to the electorate that the Green Party that hopes to be government with the Labour Party is the most secretive Party in Parliament. [Read more…]

Greens Euthanasia Policy in Conflict with Disability Sector

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Image result for james shawMr James Shaw MP,

Green Party,

Parliament Building,

Wellington.

Dear Mr Shaw

The Green Party has the dubious distinction of being the first political party to initiate a policy to seek to have the Crimes Act amended to allow doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide.

The chief Coroner recently announced that 579 persons committed suicide in the year 2015/16. This is the highest total ever recorded in New Zealand. Every suicide is a tragedy for the family and for the community. The government has an excellent suicide prevention strategy, which deserves the support of Parliament and the community. Does the Green Party support the strategy?

It is a tragedy for New Zealand that the Green Party has adopted a policy to seek to change the law to allow the government to fund doctor assisted suicide. Overseas experience reveals that where the law is changed to allow doctors to assist in the suicide of patients, the national suicide rate increases. [Read more…]

Greens Come Out in Favour Of Euthanasia

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Green MP Kevin Hague says he is pleased that one of his final acts in Parliament is to launch an assisted dying policy.Media Release  23rd September 2016

Green Party Adopts Policy to Amend Law to Allow Doctors to Kill their Patients or Assist in Their Suicide

Right to Life is disappointed that the Green Party has adopted a policy to support amending the Crimes Act to allow doctors to kill their patients who have a terminal illness or to assist in their suicide.The Green Party thus has the notorious distinction of being the first political party in New Zealand that is prepared to adopt this policy that allows the strong to kill the weak. The electorate should in the interest of the common good and in the defence of the most vulnerable members of our community, the aged, the disabled and the seriously ill, withdraw electoral support for this Party which is increasingly promoting a culture of death. [Read more…]

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