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Government’s Shameful Hypocrisy Exposed

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Media Release Saturday 21st July 2018

Right to Life is appalled at the government’s embarrassing inconsistency in defending human rights. While the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little is commended for his principled high moral stand on Australia’s Foreign Correspondent programme this week, he is nevertheless being hypocritical.  He warned that Australia was in breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in its detention of a 17 year old New Zealander. 

Andrew Little lambasted Australia’s lack of “humanitarian ideals” and its “breach of human rights”. He continued to hold the high moral ground by saying “it seems to me that there is a venal political strain to all this,” Andrew Little in representing the New Zealand government at the periodic review of our human rights by the United Nations Committee reviewing our performance on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights  at Geneva in April this year, claimed that “New Zealand has a strong human rights record”, but this is not so.

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NZ Ministry of Health Shockingly Supports the Killing of the Unborn Child to be no longer a Crime

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Image result for Ashley CEO nz mohMedia Release 14th July 2018

Right to Life is disappointed that the Ministry of Health in its submission to the Law Commission on its review of the abortion laws, supports the government’s proposal “that abortion be a reproductive health choice for women”. The Ministry claims; “Legal termination of pregnancy is much safer for women than giving birth.”  This is simply nonsense and the fact that it is coming from the Ministry is nothing less than abominable.

The submission signed by Ashley Bloomfield, CEO of the Ministry of Health [pictured here] sadly supports a culture of death in place of a culture of life which should pervade health services in New Zealand. The submission presents a sad reflection on an increasing culture of death which pervades the Ministry. Since 1977 the Ministry has classified the killing of children before birth as a core health service. It has established killing centres in 20 Public Hospitals where more than 500,000 unborn children have been violently killed. 

The unborn child is a patient who is entitled to special care and protection. The Ministry refuses to acknowledge that when they are caring for a woman with child, that they have the privilege and duty to care for two patients, the mother and the child.

The submission denies the stark reality that abortion kills an innocent and defenceless unborn child. It seeks to dehumanise the unborn child. It states that the child should be called a fetus and never a child and it denies that the unborn child has right to life. The Ministry insists that we do not use the term abortion and instead use the term termination of pregnancy service. The submission advises that staff at District Health Boards have been instructed to use these terms. Right to Life believes that this is to hide the reality that abortion kills an innocent human being and to attempt to remove the stigma that is associated with killing children in the womb.

The submission claims that abortion is safer than allowing a child to be born, ignoring the stark reality that in every abortion a child is violently killed; It claims that complications are very rare and that there is no link between abortion and breast cancer. International research debunks these assertions.

The Ministry is opposed to health professionals having a legal right to exercise their conscience in refusing to facilitate or participate in the killing of an unborn patient. The Ministry calls this exercise of conscience, “gender based discrimination.” Conscience rights are at the heart of the right to freedom of speech and the practice of ethical medicine and we remove them at our peril.

Right to Life fully supports the continued legal protection of the conscience rights of doctors and nurses, anything less means we are moving towards tyranny. Right to Life believes that the removal of conscience rights would ultimately result in doctors and nurses who refuse to be involved with the killing of unborn patients being driven from their professions.

Right to Life requests that the Minister of Health, the Hon Dr. David Clark, take urgent steps to take action against an executive that is not just anti-life but which seeks to remove our most cherished and basic freedoms. We seek this action to ensure that our health services have the utmost respect for our health professionals and the right to life of all patients, both born and unborn.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life.

Do Winston Peters Adherents Know He Supports the Decriminalisation of Abortion?

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Media Release Saturday 30th June 2018

Right to Life believes Winston Peters has given his support to the proposal of the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to decriminalise abortion.

NZ First is failing to defend our unborn children. We believe that Peters had the opportunity to stop Jacinda Ardern’s pernicious agenda dead in it’s tracks, after he was consulted by Andrew Little and prior to the Minister of Justice Andrew Little’s writing to the Law Commission on direction by Ardern.

On instruction from our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the Minister of Justice Andrew Little on 27th February 2018 wrote to the President of the Law Commission, requesting the Commission investigate a review of the abortion laws in order to decriminalise abortion and remove it from the Crimes Act. The Commission were directed to make this a priority and to drop other work it was doing in order to expedite her agenda.  What the Commission has in effect been directed to do is to investigate how best our laws can be changed so that killing of unborn children will no longer be a crime but simply a ‘reproductive health choice for women.’

It is clear that Labour needed the approval of the leader of NZ First for the review by the Law Commission to take place. It is also clear that Peters gave this approval.  It is contended that if approval had been withheld for the decriminalisation of abortion by Peters, we would not be having this law review. If Peters had stood up to be counted on behalf of the unborn, he could have prevented the current course of action, certain to be pursued by Adern, which is to bring a bill to decriminalise abortion to the House.

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NZ also violently separates children from families

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Media Release 23 June 2018

Right to Life applauds the government’s condemnation of children being separated from families at the border of the United States. The Deputy Prime Minister the Right Hon, Winston Peters “condemns children being separated from parents” in the United States. The Hon, Kelvin Davis, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party condemns the separation as “outright cruelty.” Golriz Ghahraman MP for the Green Party, called on government to condemn this “egregious breach of human rights”. The Hon Simon Bridges, Leader of the National Party condemned the separation as “highly regrettable and inhuman”. It is commendable that President Trump has now reversed this unjust policy.

 Right to Life is though compelled to question our government on its inconsistency in taking the high moral ground in defence of vulnerable children being forcibly removed from their parents. Why does the government not recognise that since 1978 it has been conducting a programme that violently and permanently separates children from their parents and prevents their entry into this country? The programme is state funded, is called a reproductive health service and is designed to prevent children who are classified as unwanted and a threat to the community from entering the country. The name of the programme is called “termination of pregnancy service.” Since 1978 more than 500,000 unborn children have been forcibly removed from their mother and violently killed.  [Read more…]

Abortion Statistics – Thirty-six Children Murdered Every Day in New Zealand

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Media Release 19 June 2018 

In 2017 there were 13,285 abortions reported in New Zealand. This represents a 3.6 per cent increase on the 12,823 abortions reported in 2016. We should mourn with these women who are grieving the loss of their precious child. This represents 36 babies murdered every day in New Zealand. If this number of children were taken out of our kindergartens each day to be murdered there would be riots in our cities and towns. Why does our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern now want to make this killing a “reproductive health choice for women?”  Right to Life is concerned at this increased killing. However, we applaud the heroic and sacrificial women who rejected abortion and chose life for their precious infants. They deserve the generous support of the whole community. Right to Life also grieves with the women who were so often abandoned by the father of the child in the time of the woman’s greatest need and were coerced into an abortion that was chosen for her. It is a cruel mockery and charade for society to pretend that it is “a woman’s right to choose.” “Choosing” an abortion is a decision of despair and a cry for help.

The abortion statistics are an indictment on our Parliament which sanctions and funds the killing of the innocent as a core health service with unlimited funding and no waiting list; our women deserve better. The statistics disguise the reality that every child  violently dismembered in the  womb of the child’s mother is an unrepeatable miracle of God’s Loving creation. [Read more…]

Every Women has a right to life, a right to be born and a right to vote

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Image result for kate sheppardMedia Release 10th June 2018

Every woman has a right to life, a right to be born and the right to vote.

This year we celebrate the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand.  On 19 September 1893, the Electoral Act 1893 was passed, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.  As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. 

Every woman has a right to vote, this victory was won by heroic women like Kate Sheppard (pictured), who campaigned courageously to achieve this right. It is a violation of human rights that today thousands of New Zealand women are denied the right to vote. Not only the right to vote, but they are being denied their right to life and the right to be born. Every year 12,000 New Zealand children are killed in the womb, which includes nearly 6,000 innocent and defenceless women who are violently killed. Since 1978, more than 250,000 women were killed before birth. How then can we claim that we are promoting the equality of women and that we are leading the world in promoting the rights of women?

How many of the over 250,000 women killed before birth since 1977, would have been among our Members of Parliament and would have been the mothers of future generations of New Zealanders? We should weep for our children lost and for their mothers whose abortion was a cry for help unheeded by our community which sadly believes that abortion is a health service.

Why does the Prime Minister not support the right to life of all women and their right to be born and their right to vote?

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has marked International Women’s Day on 8th March with a plea for Kiwis to keep “pressing for progress”.

“Here in NZ we’re celebrating 125 years of women’s suffrage. We have, right now, in our Parliament the greatest representation of women we’ve ever had,” she said.

“There is change that we still need. Let’s remember that true equality is achieved when women are free from violence and when they have financial security.”

How can the Prime Minister be sincere about celebrating women’s suffrage when women are not only being denied the right to vote but being denied the right to life and the right to be born? How can she claim to oppose violence inflicted on women when she supports such mega-violence against women in the womb by the decriminalisation of abortion?

Why is she now blindly committed to inflicting increased violence on women by having children both male and female in the womb removed from the Crimes Act, so that it will no longer a crime to kill a child before birth? She is now determined to have the killing of unborn children treated not as a justice issue but “as a health issue that is a reproductive choice for women, rather than as a criminal issue.“

It is an appalling tragedy for the cause of women’s equality that the Prime Minister who is herself with child, will by her actions increase violence against women under the pretext that the abortion of a woman before birth for any reason is not a crime, but a health issue.

It is the earnest hope of Right to Life that the birth of her lovingly nurtured and protected child will be a cause of joy and happiness and the realisation that every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation who should be respected and protected.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life.

The honouring of Catherine Healy with Knighthood offensive to women  

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Right to Life believes that the honouring of Catherine Healy, National co-ordinator of the NZ Prostitutes Collective with a knighthood, “for services to the rights of sex workers”, is deeply offensive to the women of New Zealand.

The award was made by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of the Cabinet Appointments and Honours Committee chaired by the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The Right Hon Winston Peters also sits on this Committee. 

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern how she is promoting the dignity and equality of women by honouring the woman who assisted in drafting the Prostitution Reform Act, which has inflicted violence, degradation and exploitation on women? 

It is making a public statement that our women are for sale and signifies that the government approves and supports young women selling their bodies to men to be sexually assaulted for their sexual satisfaction; this is slavery. It supports men living off the earnings of prostitutes and women prostituting themselves on the streets. It supports paid sexual attacks on women as work. There have been at least four young women prostitutes brutally murdered since the passing of the infamous Prostitution Reform Act in 2003. Prostitution and abortion both come from a culture of death, they both inflict violence on innocent women. Women deserve to be respected as the bearers of new life and the mothers of the next generation. 

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Simon Bridges – “Abortion is rare, safe and legal”

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Image result for simon bridgesMedia Release 2nd June 2018

The leader of the National Party stated on TVNZ 1’s Breakfast programme on Thursday 31 May, that he would “be loath to” remove abortion from New Zealand’s Crimes Act, saying the law as it stands is working. “Practically speaking, we have several thousand abortions per year here. “I would argue actually, in reality, it is rare, safe and legal.”… “ My argument is .. what’s wrong with the law as it’s working today?”                       

Right to Life commends Simon Bridges for opposing abortion being taken out of the Crimes Act as is planned by the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Supporting abortion as rare, safe and legal however is not a pro-life or pro-women position. Rather it is an illusion and a subterfuge that is used by many politicians to avoid opposing the violence against women and the killing of our innocent and defenceless unborn children. We cannot placate the pro-death movement by accepting the killing of any child before birth. 

Parliament is ultimately responsible for the performance of the abortion laws in New Zealand. How can any Member say with a clear conscience, “what’s wrong with the law as it is working today” when 12,000 children are being violently murdered each year, totalling more than 500,000 since 1978?

One baby is killed for every four that are born.  This is genocide and a crime against humanity.

Abortion is not safe for the child which is violently dismembered in its mother’s womb. Nor is it safe for the mother who is often left with a lifetime of regret, sorrow, pain potential infertility, and an increased risk of breast cancer and in future pregnancies, miscarriages and premature deliveries. [Read more…]

A day of sadness and shame; Ireland rejects legal protection for the lives of its own unborn children

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Media Release Sunday 27th May 2018

Tyranny of the born over the unborn; a victory for born women over their unborn sisters waiting to be born.

The citizens of Ireland have voted overwhelmingly 66% in a referendum to repeal Article 8 of the Irish constitution. Article 8 was installed in the Constitution in 1983. It acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect and as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right. 

Today is a sad day for humanity, justice and the protection of the right to life of the unborn the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family. Ireland has stood nearly alone in Europe in the courageous defence of life. It has been subject to relentless pressure from the United Nations, the European Union, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Amnesty International to change its laws to allow for the killing of its children in the womb.  [Read more…]

Family Planning’s Continuing War on Women

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The Family Planning Association [FPA] in its submission to the Law Commission support the proposal of the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to take abortion out of the Crimes Act and to treat abortion as a health issue that is a reproductive choice for women, rather than as a criminal issue. The unborn child has no human rights until it is born. It should no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child. 

The FPA with the requested law change intends, “to further develop abortion services to meet the needs of the community”. It would be a catastrophe for women and their defenceless unborn if the FPA developed its 29 clinics in New Zealand into killing centres. 

The FPA claim that the current abortion legislation, “is no longer fit for purpose from both a health and human rights perspective. Women’s lives and status in society have changed since the 1970s.”

Right to Life obtained their submission from the Law Commission under the Official Information Act.  The FPA submit that it is no longer necessary to have abortions authorised by two certifying consultants or for abortions to be performed in licensed hospitals or clinics. The Association believes that most surgical and medical abortions can be performed in community and primary care clinics including FPA clinics, with no specialised facilities required.

The FPA in its submission have:-

  • Rejected the duty of the State to protect the lives of the unborn, its future citizens.
  • Believes that life begins at birth and accepts the killing of the unborn up to birth for any reason including that the child was the wrong sex.
  • Accepted the killing of those those with Down syndrome, up to birth.
  • Accepted abortion up to birth for socio-economic reasons.

Right to Life asks the FPA how do you reconcile your claim to be advocates for women when you support the killing of women in the womb ? [Read more…]

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