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Will the Labour Party Conference Save the Party?

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Media Release Nov 30th 2019

Will the annual Labour Party conference in Wanganui save our nation this weekend by addressing the failure of the Labour led government to protect the lives of the most vulnerable in our community, the unborn the seriously ill and the disabled?

Never before in the history of New Zealand has there been such a sustained and orchestrated attack by a government on the right to life of New Zealanders.

Right to Life believes that this conference is critical for the future of the Labour Party. is it going to be faithful to its founding principle to protect the vulnerable in society, or is it going to allow the killing of our most vulnerable?

The Labour Party of Michael Joseph Savage and Peter Fraser was founded with high and noble objectives to uphold the dignity of the individual and protection for the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death.

The Labour Party has the privilege of leading the government of our nation at this time. Conference should reflect on the first duty of government which is to protect the lives of every member of the community and not to preside over our destruction.

Conference should also reflect that New Zealand desperately needs stateswomen and statesmen who are more concerned for the next generation than they are about the next election.

It is an appalling tragedy that since this Labour led government took office that more than 26,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children have been violently killed in their mother’s wombs, in public hospitals approved and funded by the government. Their mothers, the second victim of abortion cruelly wounded.

The Prime Minister is also the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. The conference should ask why she does not realise that the greatest poverty a child could experience is to be deprived of its life before it is born? She is also pledged to reduce domestic violence and child abuse; child abuse commences in the womb.

The Prime Minister in speaking in Parliament in support of the introduction of the Abortion Legislation Bill said, “the time is right for us to finally put women’s dignity and their rights at the centre of this discussion.” Conference should ask her how she can promote the dignity of women by giving them the right to kill their own children? How also do you promote the dignity of women by denying them the right to be born?

Right to Life exhorts the Conference to engage with the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who herself is a loving mother and ask her why she is determined to have abortion taken out of the Crimes Act? Such an act will mean the killing of an unborn child will be a “reproductive health choice for women”, rather than what it should remain, a crime.

Conference should also question the Prime Minister and her caucus as to why they are supporting the End of Life Choice Bill which if passed at a referendum will empower doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide?

Right to Life requests that conference save the once great Labour Party from destroying itself by losing its soul and its reason for existence.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Does David Seymour Support Assisted Suicide for “Completed Life”?

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Right to Life would like to correct the statement made in this media release that the proposal by the government of the Netherlands stated in the first paragraph is in fact a Private Members Bill, not a Government Bill. It is understood that parliamentarian Pia Dijkstra intends to introduce a draft bill in this regard in 2020

Media Release Monday 25th November 2019

Right to Life challenges David Seymour (pictured) who supports “choice” to tell our community whether he supports the current proposal of the The Netherlands government to provide assisted suicide to every person over the age of 75 years of age “who believes that they have completed their life”.

David Seymour is the leading advocate in New Zealand for the death lobby promoting choice for assisted suicide or to receive a lethal injection. Right to Life believes that his contentious anti-life End of Life Choice Bill is but the first step in implementing the ultimate hidden agenda for disposing of the lives of those not considered worthy of living.

Our community must now watch and pay attention as this agenda unfolds in the Netherlands, because our lives and that of our children depend on it. The Dutch government recently announced its intention to introduce legislation next year to provide State funded assisted suicide for any person over the age of seventy-five who believe that their life is complete. It will not be necessary to have a terminal illness or to have even have ill health. The ultimate logical step is for the government to make it a duty to accept assisted suicide on reaching 75. This would be a considerable saving for the Dutch health services and social welfare.

Polling conducted by the Dutch government reveal that the proposal has the support of 55% of the population. Half those polled wanted no age limit, a third wanted a lower limit.

The Netherlands has endured legislation allowing doctors to assist in the suicide of their patients or to give them a lethal injection since 2002. The populace has clearly been seduced by a culture of death. It commenced with accepting the killing of the terminally ill and quickly expanded to include those with depression, Alzheimer’s, dementia, the disabled and even children. Should New Zealand say yes to the referendum on the End of Life Choice Bill at the next election, there is no reason why New Zealand should not stumble blindly in the steps of the Netherlands. If we do not learn from history, the destruction of human life will be the inevitable consequence.

Euthanasia is about doctors killing their patients or assisting in their suicide. It is intrinsically evil; no referendum can legitimise that which is evil. The prohibition against taking the life of another human being is the foundation of the law and medicine. It is always wrong to kill another innocent human being. The approval of the community, even in a referendum, can never make murder acceptable. A referendum is an attempt to seduce and to implicate the whole community in the murder of the vulnerable.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

The Hypocrisy of the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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Yesterday the 20th November was the 30th Anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. [UNCRC], New Zealand signed this Convention in 1993.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is recommitting to the implementation of the Convention to protect the rights of children. This commitment was made in response to a request from the Commissioner of Children Andrew Becroft to the government re-prioritise its commitment to the UNCRC.

However Right to Life asks the Prime Minister why she does not recognise that the first right of a child is to be born. How can she reconcile her claim to be recommitting to the Convention to protect the rights of the child when every day in New Zealand an estimated thirty-five unborn children are violently killed in public hospitals, their killing approved and funded be her Labour led government? Since her government took office more than 26,000 unborn New Zealanders, who would have enriched our nation, have been killed under her watch.

The first right of the child is to be born. The preamble of the Convention states Bearing in mind that, as indicated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, “the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth”,

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 6. 1 states, “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of life.”

How to can Jacinda Ardern reconcile her commitment to the Convention when she has instigated the draconian Abortion Legislation Bill? This bill removes the protection of the Crimes Act from mothers and the unborn child in violation of the UNRC that calls for “appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth.”

Prime Minister, how can you claim to care for children when you claim that violently killing an innocent and defenceless child in the womb is “not a crime but a reproductive choice for women.” Do you believe that a nation that kills its own children has a future?

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Petition Advocating protection for Women and their Unborn Children to be presented at Parliament

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Media Release 18 November 2019

What is believed to be the largest petition ever made by residents of New Zealand to Parliament on the issue of abortion, on the care of women and concerning the killing of the unborn child.

A petition signed by 15,407 concerned citizens opposing the decriminalisation of abortion and supporting protection for women and the unborn is to be formally presented to an assembly of invited MP’s on the steps of Parliament on Wednesday 20th November at 12 30 p.m.

The petition was organised by Right to Life and will be presented by representatives of the Society’s executive.

This petition defends our inalienable  right to life, the foundation of our human rights. Since 1856 the Crimes Act, section 182, Killing an unborn child, has recognised that the killing of an innocent and defenceless unborn child is a serious crime. This petition is opposed to abortion being taken out of the Crimes Act and made “a reproductive choice for women.”

The proposal of the Prime Minister to decriminalise abortion is an unprecedented attack on the sanctity of life of the unborn child. It is a denial that the unborn child is a human being endowed at conception with human rights. It is a rejection of the responsibility of the State to protect the lives of all New Zealanders from conception to natural death. Under the government’s proposal the child is to be declared the property of the mother. This is slavery and no person has the right to claim ownership of another person. If today Parliament can declare that the unborn child is not a human being, tomorrow Parliament may declare that other vulnerable human beings, those with dementia and Alzheimer’s are no longer human beings and protection for such persons may be removed from the Crimes Act and killed and declared a health service.

The government have no mandate to declare that the unborn are not human beings and that they have no right to have their lives protected by the State. A poll conducted by Curia Marketing Services in September on behalf of Right to Life found that 65% of those polled believed that the unborn child was a human being before birth, with 25 % at conception, 14 % at implantation and 26 % between implantation and birth.
On a second question, when should the human rights of the unborn child be protected by New Zealand law, 17 % believed at conception, 10 % at implantation and 28 % between implantation and birth. In other words 55% of New Zealanders believe that the unborn child’s right to life should be protected at some stage before birth. WHY then is our governments removing instead of ensuring protection for our precious unborn?

The presentation of this petition is a public event and the media are most welcome to attend.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Parliament votes to introduce the state funded killing of the vulnerable

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Media Release Wed 13th November 2019

Right to Life believes that Parliament’s passing the third reading of the infamous End of Life Choice Bill by 69 to 51 will be recorded by history as a day of betrayal and ignominy in the history of our Parliament, it has :-

  • Abdicated its responsibility to legislate for the protection of the lives of every member of the community from conception to natural death.
  • Repealed the probation of the taking of the life of another innocent human being; the foundation of the law and of medicine.
  • Given permission for the killing of those whose lives are considered not worthy of living.
  • Legislated for doctors to become state funded serial killers.

This Bill will now be subject to a binding referendum at the next election. The community will now have to  approve or reject the End of Life Choice Bill which would require doctors to assist in the suicide of their patients or to kill them with a lethal injection. This is called “death with dignity with “assisted dying.”

Right to Life believes that the Labour- led government of Jacinda Ardern must accept responsibility for the passing of this appalling bill. It was a private members bill of lone wolf David Seymour, leader of ACT. Without the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and the vast majority of the members of her government, the bill would have been overwhelmingly defeated at its first reading.

Euthanasia is about doctors killing their patients or assisting in their suicide. It is intrinsically evil; no referendum can legitimise that which is evil. The prohibition against taking the life of another human being is the foundation of the law and medicine. It is always wrong to kill another innocent human being. The approval of the community, even in a referendum, can never make murder acceptable. A referendum is an attempt to seduce and to implicate the whole community in the murder of the vulnerable.

Right to Life stated in 1977 that with the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act that now that we had a law to kill “unwanted children” before birth that in forty years we would have a law to dispose of those at the other end of life, the elderly.the disabled and the seriously ill. That prediction is on the verge of becoming true.

Right to Life believes that only MPs who are firmly committed to defending and protecting life deserve to sit in our Parliament.  Our Society is now totally committed to a vigorous campaign, firstly to achieve a resounding no vote at the referendum, secondly to oppose the re-election to Parliament of those MPs who voted to support the third reading of this life threatening bill.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Minister of Justice a Threat to the Human Rights of New Zealanders

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Media Release Monday 4th November 2019

Right to Life is concerned that the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, at the instigation of the Prime Minister, is an increasing threat to the human rights of New Zealanders.

The Government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is one of the most controlling in New Zealand’s history. This is a socialist regime of an elite few that seeks to impose its will on the nation that it seeks to control against the will of the people. It will ultimately fail as the human spirit refuses to be controlled.

One example of this control is the implementation by Jacinda Ardern of her plans to remove all protection for our unborn children. The Abortion Legislation bill threatens the human rights of unborn New Zealanders by firstly denying that the unborn are human beings. Secondly by denying that the unborn are bearers of human rights the foundation right being a right to life.

The proposed Abortion bill violates the human rights of women who have a right to have the protection of the State from the violence of abortion that would be inflicted on them and their child.

The current abortion law stipulates in the long title of the CS&A Act, that “abortions may be authorised only after full regard of the human rights of the unborn child.” The Minister has deliberately excluded this requirement in Jacinda’s abortion bill. There is therefore no requirement for the mother or the doctor to consider the rights of the child, which is now the property of the mother. This is slavery; nobody has the right to own another human being.

The Abortion Bill requires that doctors who are not prepared to kill the unborn child refer the mother to a doctor who will. This is a violation of the human rights of the doctor to follow their conscience in defending life. The ultimate result will be to drive doctors who refuse to cooperate in killing the unborn, out of the profession.

Under section 20 of her Abortion Bill, an employer providing “contraception, sterilisation and abortion services” must accommodate the conscientious objection of an applicant or employee unless it would cause unreasonable disruption to activities. However, if an employer considers that accommodating the applicant’s or employee’s objection would unreasonably disrupt the employer’s activities, the employer may take any of the punitive actions described in subsection [1] that includes dismissal This is just weasel speech for denying an employee their human rights, including their right to freedom of conscience. This is the action of a culture of death that permits no compromise and demands complete subservience.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Parliament Betrays our Community; refuses to Govern for the Common Good

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Media Release 23rd October 2019

Parliament tonight has shamefully abdicated its responsibility to legislate to protect the vulnerable in society by voting 63 to 57 in favour of a referendum to decide the fate of the Seymour End of Life Choice Bill. When such important matters as life and death are at stake, Right to Life believes that Parliament must itself take responsibility for such decisions, rather than abdicating that responsibility.

The referendum will be conducted at the general election in 2020. Right to Life believes that if the bill passes its third reading in November, the media will continue to misinform the public We believe that they will lead a concerted campaign to persuade our community to support assisted suicide and euthanasia, by voting yes to the referendum.

Parliament has a duty to legislate for the protection of the most vulnerable members of our community the aged, the terminally ill and the disabled. Right to Life commends those Members who voted to defend life by voting to oppose a binding referendum. Right to Life asks if Members who voted for a referendum in Parliament are in Parliament at all. If they are reluctant to take responsibility to protect us, why are they there at all?

The motion for a referendum was moved by Jenny Marcroft of NZ First who declared that if Parliament did not support a referendum, NZ First would vote against the bill, at its third reading. The Hon Maggie Barry in her impassioned  address in Parliament stated that this bill was a “kill bill”, that it was poorly worded and that it was disguised killing under the guise of choice and compassion. The Hon Nick Smith in his moving address said that the bill was “unsound, unsafe and dangerous.”

It is also shameful that Parliament refused to support the amendment of the Hon Tim MacIndoe  to change the name of the  End of Life Choice Bill to the “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Bill”. The name of the bill is intended to mislead and hide its purpose, which is to allow doctors to assist in the suicide of their patients or to kill them by giving them a lethal injection.

Right to Life earnestly requests Parliament promote a culture of life and oppose a culture of death by voting to defeat this dangerous anti-life EOLCB, on the 13th November.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Is Jacinda Ardern Serious about Reducing Child Abuse?

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Media Release 19 October 2019

Abortion is the ultimate in child abuse! Why does the Prime Minister refuse to acknowledge that the violent dismemberment of a defenceless and innocent child in the womb is child abuse -in fact the ultimate child abuse. It is appalling that she calls it “Health Care”.
The Prime Minister has stated that she has a passionate desire to reduce child abuse in New Zealand. In May 2019 in response to the Stuff Homicide Report she said, that New Zealand’s record of family violence is ” horrific and “shocking” and that addressing the issue is one of the governments priorities.

If this is a priority Prime Minister, why then are you promoting the Abortion Legislation Bill which decriminalises the abuse and killing of children and makes the murder of innocent and defenceless children “a reproductive choice for women” and a ‘health service’. New Zealand is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a child. This bill will increase child abuse in New Zealand and make New Zealand a more violent society.

It is an appalling injustice that the government applauds this child abuse of the unborn by having the abortionists who engage in the killing of thousands of defenceless unborn awarded with a knighthood for “services to women.”

Right to Life fully supports the Prime Minister in her resolve to stop child abuse in New Zealand which has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the OECD, but why is it that the government refuses to acknowledge that child abuse begins in the womb? How can the government say that you may not abuse your child after birth but you may kill the child before it is born? Why is it a crime to smack a child while at the same time the Prime Minister promotes the Abortion Legislation bill, which allows for the violent dismemberment of a child in the womb   The Prime Minister is rightly concerned that 204 children up to the age of 14  were killed after birth since 1992. Why is she not also concerned at the more than 520,000  children violently killed before birth since 1978: they are also our children. We will not reduce our child abuse in this country until we acknowledge that abortion is violence and the ultimate in child abuse.

It is understandable that if we violate our prohibition against violence against the unborn the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family, it will weaken our prohibition of inflicting violence against the born child.

New Zealanders are deeply ashamed of our child abuse record, it is a terrible burden on the conscience of the nation. As a society we experience no difficulty in recognising child abuse and responding with horror, sorrow, grief and a determination to stop the abuse of the innocent and defenceless children. Why is it then that as a nation which is implacably opposed to child abuse we allow each day in this country the equivalent of two classrooms of children to be violently dismembered and killed in abortions in our Hospitals’ sanctioned and funded by the government? It is also violence against the mother. The government has institutionalised child abuse.

We all have a duty to defend life; it is always wrong to kill the innocent. As a nation we are suffering from a crippling and destructive  blindness, a refusal to acknowledge the truth that we have a duty to protect the lives of all children, born and unborn, they are all members of our human family and God’s precious children. Right to Life pleads with Parliament to act to protect all of our children born and unborn by defeating the Prime Minister’s abortion bill.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Abortion Bill Legislation Committee Refusing to hear 95% of Submitters

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Media Release 10th October 2019

Right to Life believes that the Special Abortion Legislation Committee is violating the right of citizens to be heard and undermining our Parliamentary democracy.

The Committee has advised that there were more than 23,000 written submissions made to the Select Committee and that  2890 submitters made a request to have the opportunity to make an oral submission. It is believed that only 150 submitters have been granted the privilege to be heard, only 5% of that total. This is totally unacceptable in a democracy.

Hon Ruth Dyson said: “The committee welcomes hearing from a wide range of people on their views. We understand that this is a sensitive and important topic, and we look forward to engaging in a respectful and open discussion.”

Right to Life is aware that this is a special committee created by the Minister of Justice, the Hon Andrew Little for the exclusive purpose of considering this bill and submissions. This Committee has no other business and should has stated devote itself to hearing from a wide range of people on their views and engaging in a respectful and open discussion.

Those who govern should not forget that they govern with the consent of the governed. We the governed have an absolute right to be heard. This is a bill like no other in the history of our nation. It is a bill that if passed will allow hundreds of thousands of children yet to be conceived to be violently killed as “a reproductive choice for women.” It is a bill that will increase the victimisation, suffering and abandonment of women.

This bill seeks:-

  • To remove the protection of the State under the Crimes Act for women from the violence of abortion.
  • To remove the protection of the Crimes Act for the life of unborn children, so that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child.
  • To allow for the killing of the unborn child up to 20 weeks for any reason at the request of the mother.
  • To allow for the killing of the child up to birth at the request of the mother if a doctor considers it appropriate.

The community should be concerned and alarmed that the Minister of Justice wants this committee to act with urgency in reporting this contentious bill back to Parliament in order that it can be rushed through Parliament and passed into law before the 19 December 2019 the last sitting day for this year.

Statesman are concerned about the next generation but politicians are concerned about the next election. Next year is an election year and the government does not want to lose the support of many in the community who are passionately pro-life and opposed to this anti -life and anti-feminist bill.

There is no urgency to pass this bill. There is however urgency for the Committee to ensure that every citizen who wants to be heard, both those for and against, before the bill is reported back to Parliament by 8th February 2020.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Jacinda Ardern has lost the trust of the nation

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“Our success as leaders should be judged on no lesser standard than the well-being of children.” Jacina Ardern

Media Release 28th September 2019

Right to Life with deep regret believes that our appointed leader Jacinda Ardern has forfeited her right to the trust of the people of New Zealand and her right to lead this nation. Those who govern do so with the permission of the governed. We the citizens of this nation have an inalienable right to demand that our leaders act with integrity and moral rectitude.

Jacinda Ardern pledged to provide openness and accountability in government and had it enshrined in the coalition agreement. Why then is she refusing to answer questions on statements she has made in public?

The first duty of our Prime Minister is to uphold the inalienable right to life of every member of our community from conception to natural death and not to preside over our destruction. In this she has failed.

Right to Life agrees with the Prime Minister when she said on 24 September 2018, “Our success as leaders should be judged on no lesser standard than the well-being of children.”

Jacinda Ardern has betrayed the disability community. In 2017 she made a promise to the disability community in response to concerns expressed by the Saving Down’s advocacy group that the new abortion bill would remove the current 20 week prohibition and allow abortions up to birth for foetal abnormality. The Prime Minister responded, “They have said till 40 weeks, which is wrong, which is wrong. We have time periods already set out in law, I am not proposing changes to that. I am proposing it comes out of the Crimes Act.”

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister why she has directed that the Abortion Legislation Bill allow for the killing up to birth, of children who may have a disability, including Down syndrome? The current abortion legislation under the Crimes Act allows for the killing of a child before birth up to 20 weeks “where there is a substantial risk that the child, if born, would be so physically or mentally subnormal as to be seriously handicapped.” Down syndrome is considered a mild to moderate disability and Right to Life therefore protests at the killing of any of these special children who are gift to the community.

The Down syndrome community are the most persecuted community in New Zealand. According to information provided by the Minister of Health under the Official Information Act, in 2017 there were only 47 children born with Down syndrome.  It is estimated that there were 56 babies with Down syndrome who were killed before birth in 2017. Between 2009 and 2017 it is estimated that 694 children with Down syndrome were killed before birth in abortions in New Zealand.

Right to Life wrote to the Prime Minister on 26 August and asked the following questions;

  • Why the Abortion Legislation Bill does not conform to the public assurance made by you to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks for foetal abnormality?
  • Do you agree that with the statement of the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, “I reject the notion that abortion entailed killing another human being and I accept on legal and on moral grounds that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible?”

The Prime Minister refused to answer and had her Correspondence Manager write to us on 3 September to say,”Thank you for writing to Jacinda, the matters that you raise have been noted.” Her response is deplorable and unacceptable.

The Prime Minister has failed the unborn children of New Zealand. Right to Life believes that Andrew Little’s appalling statement was made with the approval of the Prime Minister. We also contend that she believes that abortion does not kill a human being and that human rights do not assure until the baby is born. In holding this untenable and unjust position she has betrayed future generations of our children and their mothers. Her ardent promotion of her Abortion Legislation Bill is anti-life and anti-feminists.

Never before has New Zealand had a Prime Minister who is so antagonistic to women and their unborn.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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