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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

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

Cantabrians March to Defend the Right to Life

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Media Release 15 August 2020

MARCH FOR LIFE CHRISTCHURCH

Right to Life commends the more than 1,000 Cantabrian men, women and children who peacefully and joyfully marched from Cathedral Square to Victoria Square in Christchurch today,  to express their support for a culture of life with love for mothers and their precious unborn.

Marchers were there to express opposition to the culture of death that threatens the lives of our unborn children and the welfare of women, the second victim of the violence of abortion. We remember the more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless New Zealand unborn children who have been killed since 1978. This same culture now also threatens the vulnerable in our community with euthanasia.

The marchers gave witness to our community to the sanctity of life of every human being from conception to natural death. They also gave a strong message to Parliament and government that we reject the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 that rejects the humanity of the unborn child and its right to life until it is born.

We will not rest until it is repealed. The marchers also reject the End of Life Choice Act and encouraged the community to vote No at the referendum. Voters were also encouraged to vote only for candidates who are committed to protecting life.

May our Parliament be attentive to the message we respectfully present, that we are absolutely opposed to the culture of death that our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has inflicted on our country by removing abortion from the Crimes Act. Under the Abortion Legislation Act it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child up to birth. In Jacinda Ardern’s own words killing an unborn child is now “a reproductive choice for women.” Ardern has also been a strong advocate for the End of Life Choice Act that would empower doctors to give a lethal injection to their patients or assist in their suicide.

The march began at the Cathedral Square and the marchers, in compliance with the level two restrictions walked in groups of 100 in warm sunny conditions through the streets of central Christchurch to Victoria Square where they were addressed by Pro-Life and Pro-family advocates who spoke passionately about the need to continue to speak out against the government’s war on women and unborn children.

Those who marched, want New Zealand to be a nation where the beauty and dignity of every human life is valued and protected from conception.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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

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


 

Euthanasia Referendum Threat to Hospice Movement

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Media Release Monday 29th June 2020

Right to Life believes that if the euthanasia referendum results in the ‘End of Life Choice’ Act coming into force, which would happen if more than 50% of people vote for it, there is a danger that the  the government could withholding funding for palliative care for hospices in New Zealand. The objective would be to compel hospices against their conscience to allow doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide within their hospices.

The 16th June 2020 High Court judgement of Justice J, Mallon in the case of Hospice NZ V the Attorney General highlights the threat to world class palliative care provided by Hospice NZ.

Hospice NZ had sought an urgent hearing in May in the High Court in Wellington to ask three questions. One was on whether New Zealand’s proposed euthanasia law, the subject of a referendum would have the effect of defeating the conscience right of hospices to protect their patients by prohibiting the killing of patients under the End of Life Choice Bill.

Justice Mallon in his judgement supported the right of hospices to prohibit euthanasia, but stated in his decision that there was however nothing to prevent the government authority from withholding health care funding if a hospice refused to allow euthanasia.

The Attorney General submitted to the court, [131] Further, if a DHB determined the most efficient way to fund assisted dying services in its area was to fund a provider who is willing to provide both palliative care and assisted dying services, it must be entitled to do so. Such a decision would not be to discriminate against those holding a conscientious objection. Rather, it would be one of effective allocation of funding to service providers in accordance with the statutory requirement on a DHB that it “seek the optimum arrangement for the most effective and efficient delivery of health services in order to meet local, regional and national needs”.  

So if we consider the judgement we would have to conclude that under it, if a DHB seeking the most optimum arrangement or determined the most efficient way to fund assisted dying services… it must be entitled to do so. The words most efficient way are chilling and do nothing to negate our concerns expressed in the first paragraph of our post.

As it reads there is nothing in the above judgement that would cause any alleviation of our fears.

Let’s be clear, Euthanasia is about doctors killing patients or assisting in their suicide and it is diametrically opposed to the objective of palliative care, to neither hasten nor postpone death.

Euthanasia represents a culture of death. It is incompatible with palliative care which is compatible with a culture of life.  Right to Life believes that the culture of death will not compromise, and will  demand complete subservience. The End of Life Choice would grease the slippery slope and a right to die would ultimately become a duty to die.

There are 33 hospices in New Zealand providing palliative care for those seriously ill, or in a terminal condition. Government funding accounts for 60 per cent of the funding required to maintain hospices.

Right to Life believes that it is the intention of the government to compel Hospices to accept that doctors could kill patients with a lethal dose or assist them to commit suicide. This was clearly indicated in the defeat of the Supplementary Order Paper 295 to the End of Life Choice Bill, moved by the Hon Michael Woodhouse. This SOP sought to amend the End of Life Choice Bill by upholding the right of hospices to “conscientiously object to including euthanasia”, It was shamefully defeated by 68 to 52. (See Sections 58-62 of Hospice-New-Zealand-v-Attorney-General)

This important amendment was opposed by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and 33 Labour MPs, supported by nine NZ First MPs, eight Green MPs  and 15 National MPs.

Right to Life is firmly of the conviction that if they succeed with the referendum, that it is the government’s intention to incorporate euthanasia as a ‘health service’ in our hospices.

We call on all those who value the lives of our unwell and elderly to vote NO at the coming referendum. The lives of the vulnerable have never been at greater risk.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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

Fifteen MPs of Maori Descent Vote to Deny Humanity of Maori Unborn Children

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Media Release 24 June 2020

Right to Life believes that the 15 MPs who claim Maori descent who mistakenly believed that they were supporting women, voted to support the passing of the anti-life and anti-feminist Abortion Legislation Act 2020, unwittingly breached the Treaty of Waitangi. Article three of the Treaty provides protection for the lives of Maori by the Crown. We believe that this protection extends to Maori unborn children.

 Right to Life commends the 12 MPs of Maori descent who courageously voted against the Abortion Bill, thus retaining for the unborn child the protection of the Crimes Act and the Treaty of Waitangi.

 This was a sad day for Maoridom, for Maori women and for their precious unborn. New Zealand must not rest until we elect a pro-life Parliament that will repeal  this appalling legislation. 

When the Treaty was signed in 1840, the Crown gave an assurance that Maori would have the Queen’s protection. It was believed that this was to include protection for the right to life of Maori from conception to natural death, which was provided by the common law of England and carried on in the New Zealand Crimes Act since 1856.

It was the intention of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern who was the architect of this legislation and who believed that it was not a crime to kill an unborn child, to remove abortion from the Crimes Act. Unwanted children including Maori, could then be removed from the protection of the Crimes Act and killed, in the deceptive words of the Prime Minister, “as a reproductive choice for women”. It was the Minister of Justice who was responsible for drafting this legislation who declared in Parliament in presenting the legislation, that the unborn child had no human rights and was not, contrary to medical science, a human being until it was born.

The Abortion Legislation Act provides for an abortion and the killing of the child at the request of the woman up to twenty weeks’ gestation. The Crown withdraws its protection for the child and rejects its responsibility, effectively up to birth, to protect the life of this the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family.

The Act also :-

  • Denies the humanity of the unborn child.
  • Denies the child’s inalienable God given right to life.
  • Grants property rights to the mother over the child.
  • Declares that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child.
  • Grants the “right” of the mother to terminate the life of her child.

Statistics NZ advise that 2,991 unborn Maori children were violently killed before birth in 2019. This was 12 more than the 2,979 Maori babies killed in 2018.

Right to Life believes that the following MPs claiming Maori descent should explain to the electorate and the nation why they supported the Abortion Legislation Act that violated the human rights of the unborn and allowed for the Crown in violation of Article three to withdraw its protection for Maori mothers and the lives of their unborn. Hon. Paula Bennett, Hon. Kelvin Davis, Hon. Willie Jackson, Willow-Jean Prime, Kiritapu Allan, Louisa Wall, Paul Eagle, Jo Luxton, Hon. Tracey Martin, Jenny Marcroft, Marama Davidson, David Seymour and Jami-Lee Ross. Peeni Henare and Tamati Coffey represent Maori electorates and have the increased responsibility of upholding protection for the unborn in accordance with Article three of the Treaty in the interests of Maori.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Abortion Statistics 2019 – 36 Unborn Children are Killed Every Day in New Zealand.

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Media Release 17th June 2020

Many women in 2019 chose life for their baby in preference to the violence of abortion. Right to Life congratulates these heroic women who deserve the love and support of our community.

Every day it is estimated that thirty-six unborn children are taken to Hospitals and clinics to be violently killed. 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. Statistics NZ report that In 2019 there were 12,857 abortions reported in New Zealand. This is a decrease of 425 abortions on the 13,282 abortions reported in 2018. We should mourn with these women who are grieving the loss of their precious child. There were only 35 abortions authorised on the grounds of “danger to life and/or Physical Health.

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 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 in the words of our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, “a reproductive choice for women.” Abortion is 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.

The statistics are also an indictment on the media which have generally ignored the media release on abortion statistics made by Statistics NZ It was Joseph Stalin who said the killing of one human being is a tragedy and the killing of tens of thousands just a statistic. Since 1977 more than 500,000 children have been violently killed in their mother’s womb, a massive violation of human rights. Why is the media so coldly indifferent to the killing of New Zealand children in their first nine months of life?

Right to Life requests that the government introduce abstinence sexuality programmes to replace Family Planning school sex education programs which encourage promiscuity with abortions arranged without the knowledge or consent of parents as a backup for failed contraceptives.

Repeat abortions totalled 4,645, 3,008 were having their second, 1,081 were having their third, 326 were having their fourth, 132 their fifth, 62 their sixth, 26 their seventh and 10 their eighth or more. Right to Life believes that these statistics are under reported. Studies conducted in the United States, reveal that repeat abortions are actually 50 per cent of the total abortions reported.

Key Facts Abortion Statistics 2019

  • The general abortion rate was 13.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, down slightly from 13.7 per 1,000 in 2018
  • Women aged 20–24 years had the highest abortion rate (19.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 20–24 years), down from 20.5 in 2018.
  • 51 percent of all abortions were for women aged in their 20s
  • Most abortions (64 percent) were a woman’s first abortion, unchanged from 2018.
  • 64 percent of abortions were performed before the 10th week of the pregnancy, up from 50 percent in 2018.
  • 18 percent of known pregnancies (live births, stillbirths, and abortions) ended in an abortion, unchanged from 2018.
  • 78 young women under the age of 16 years had an abortion in 2019. Statistics have been discontinued on the number of young women who alleged that they had notified their parents or guardian of their abortion.
  • 12,498 abortions were authorised on the grounds of mental health, the grounds used by certifying consultants to provide abortion on demand. This is 98 percent of the total. There were 35 abortions authorised on the grounds of danger to life/ and or Physical Health.

 

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Which Leader will Protect Life and Promote Human Dignity?

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In September our nation will make a decision that will determine the future of our country. This election is a watershed moment in our history and one in which we all have a part to play. We face the real possibility, of the return to power of a government that is both hostile not only to the sanctity of human life, but in fact also many of the foundational Judeo-Christian principles upon which our nation has been founded. The deconstruction of those values has been underway for decades but this government seems determined to complete that process. Ahead lies the very real threat of the legally sanctioned killing of our elderly and unwell. We also face increasing threat to freedom of speech and our religious freedoms.

Both Jacinda Ardern and Todd Muller wish to lead our nation as Prime Minister. It is a very great honour and privilege to be elected as the leader of our country. A Prime Minister needs to be a person of integrity and we believe one whose ethos includes a conviction that the lives of the weakest and most vulnerable persons in our community need to be protected in law. Unfortunately we do not see those qualities in Jacinda Ardern. Todd Muller commendably voted consistently against the Abortion legislation Bill, yet has publicly stated that he believes abortion is now with the enacting of that Bill, ‘settled law’. We cannot agree. It is not settled law, neither as slavery.

Who is best qualified to reaffirm the value of every human life from conception to natural death? We need a government that is committed to seeking the repeal of the infamous Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and opposing the killing of the vulnerable through implementing the End of Life Choice bill, should it be approved in the referendum.  Society through its laws and social institutions has a duty to protect and nurture all human life.

The Prime Minister who presents as charming, attractive and likeable was the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 that declares that it is no longer a crime to kill a child before birth and permits women to kill their children effectively for any reason, up to birth. She also opposed eight pro-life amendments that would have given increased legal protection for women and their unborn. These included protection for children with disabilities including Down syndrome, who may now be violently murdered up to birth. She also supported and voted in favour of the End of Life Choice Act and the the referendum which if passed, will permit doctors killing their patients or assisting in their suicide. Jacinda Ardern also supported the first reading of this legislation, that would have enabled the killing of the disabled.

We believe that these actions alone disqualify her on moral grounds from being New Zealand’s leader.

Todd Muller is committed to protecting the lives of every member of the human family from conception to natural death. He has a commendable 100% voting record in defending life. He opposed the anti-life Abortion Legislation Bill and the End of Life Choice Bill. It is however disappointing that he never took a call to speak up in defence of the right to life of the unborn in the abortion debate. Neither did he speak up in defence of the vulnerable in the euthanasia debate. It is hoped that should he become Prime Minister that he will accept the responsibility of providing leadership in defending the lives of the vulnerable in our community. He who remains silent in the face of attacks on the right to life of the voiceless shares the guilt of the oppressor.

Right to Life believes that there is no place in our Parliament for those who are not committed to protecting the lives of every member in our community from conception to natural death. We believe that the Jacinda Ardern Labour led government is a continuing threat to the vulnerable in our community. This is not the great Labour Party of Michael Joseph Savage that was founded on a commitment to social justice and a profound respect for the right to life of every individual from conception.

Right to Life encourages the electorate to elect at the next election a Prime Minister and Parliament who are committed to protect the right to life of every member of our human family and to vote No at the referendum on euthanasia.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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

Pharmac Joins Death Peddlers

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Media Release 5th June 2020

Right to Life encourages health practitioners to defend their ethics and patients by refusing to participate in the killing of the unborn and by opposing Pharmac’s anti-life proposals. They are extending access to the lethal murder drug Mifepristone and the prostaglandin, Misoprostol. These drugs are used to kill unborn children up to ten weeks gestation. The proposal which further victimises women, means that these drugs would be available and on hand for health practitioners authorised to provide abortion services. The ability to kill now extends to doctors, midwives and nurse practitioners. Women would not be required to go to a pharmacist to obtain the drugs.

It is important that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the anti-life Abortion Legislation Act accepts full responsibility for the plight of women victimised by her appalling Abortion Legislation Act. Right to Life stands with women and their precious unborn and pledges to the women of New Zealand that we will not rest until it is repealed.

This proposal has been made legal by the new Abortion law, which intensifies the war on women and their precious unborn children. It trivialises the killing of the unborn which is promoted as a “health service”. Under the previous abortion legislation the lethal drugs were authorised only by a registered medical practitioner and were required to be administered and supervised by a doctor in a hospital or clinic licensed by the Abortion Supervisory Committee. Under the new Abortion law the drugs can be given to the woman in a clinic, hospital, doctor’s surgery or the women’s own home. In the home option there is a complete lack of medical supervision.

Despite claims that medication abortion is safe and easy, research proves that as many as five to seven percent of women who take abortion drugs will require follow-up surgery and three percent could end up in the emergency room. Self-managed abortions from home are especially dangerous; in fact, half of the abortion providers do not consider them safe, according to a 2019 survey published in the journal ‘Contraception’. Medical  abortion becomes even more dangerous in situations where women cannot access emergency medical care.

Pharmac’s proposal will increase the pressure of the culture of death by encouraging doctors, nurse practitioners and midwives to accept the killing of the unborn as just a normal health service.  This pressure will result in the following negative impacts;

  • It will put pressure on health practitioners who are committed and trained to respect and care for both the mother and her child as patients, to be become killers of our unborn.
  • It will place pressure on health practitioners to accept a responsibility to have these lethal drugs available to give to women seeking a medical abortion.

The proposal is just the first step in the agenda to make it compulsory for all health practitioners to provide drugs to kill the unborn. The ultimate objective will be to make it mandatory to have these drugs on hand to kill the unborn. Those practitioners who are not prepared to co-operate could  be required to leave the profession.

The proposal of Pharmac will place increased pressure on a woman facing a crisis pregnancy to accept the killing of her child as the logical solution by:

  • Deceiving her into believing the destructive and wrong information in the Interim Guidelines of the Ministry of Health for the performance of abortions, “that abortion is safer for women than birth.”
  • Discouraging her from seeking pre-decision counselling and taking time to consider all the options of parenting and adoption that will protect her life and that of her baby.
  • Forcing on her the sole responsibility for the killing of her child by taking the Mifepristone.

 

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Why Does the Prime Minister Refuse to be Accountable?

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Media Release Monday 1st June 2020

The Prime Minister made a commitment after the 2017 election that New Zealand would have the most accountable and transparent government we have ever seen.

However this Labour led government has proven to be one of the most unaccountable and nontransparent governments we have ever seen.

Right to Life has written to the Prime Minister on four separate occasions to ask her to answer our questions on key life issues. We have either received no response or unsatisfactory one line answers.

Right to Life believes that we must protect our Parliamentary democracy, lest we lose it.  When the Prime Minister or any Member of Parliament exercises their right to speak or vote in our Parliament on legislation, they are performing a public duty. It is recorded in Hansard for all to see, indeed for posterity and its a matter of public record.

We believe that the public have an absolute right to ask the Prime Minister and other Members of Parliament (and receive answers regarding their reasons) as to their reasons for voting for or  against legislation brought to Parliament. Those who govern, do so with the permission of the electorate. If the Prime Minister is not prepared to be transparent and accountable, why is she expecting us to give her permission to govern us for a further term?

On 10 March 2020, Jacinda Ardern voted against the eight pro-life amendments to the Abortion Legislation Act that would provide increased protection to women and their unborn. One amendment, that of Simon O’Connor, would have provided appropriate medical care to a child born alive in a late term abortion. Another amendment, that of Agnes Loheni, would have given pain relief prior to an abortion to a child of post 20 weeks to avoid its suffering pain while being violently dismembered in the womb. We asked her on 13th March 2020 if she would please advise us why she voted against these compassionate amendments; there was no reply.

Right to Life also wrote twice to the other 68 MPs who voted for the Bill, comprising 36 Labour, 20 National, two NZ First, eight Greens, one ACT and one Independent. They were asked why they voted against the pro-life amendments; None replied except Louisa Wall.

Right to Life also asked Jacinda Ardern for the following important information:-
On 6th January 2020, if she would support our Society’s campaign for women’s equality by supporting the right of women to be born; there was no reply.

On 14 February 2020, under the Official Information Act, we asked the Prime Minister “if she had a policy to support a replacement birth rate of 2.1 (necessary to demographically maintain a natural population), or better and are you committed to implementing policies that will achieve a replacement birth rate of 2.1.” Her Chief of Staff advised that, “the Prime Minister had no such policies.”

Right to Life asked Jacinda Ardern on 21st April 2020, under the Official Information Act, “What medical or biological evidence do you have that the unborn child is not a human being with a right to life until it is born?” She refused to answer and referred our request to the Ministry of Justice.

Why then is it, that Jacinda Ardern has consistently refused respectful requests from Right to Life for information on her policies and actions.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Why does the Prime Minister Want Midwives to become Killers?

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Media Release 23rd May 2020

Right to Life is appalled that the Midwifery Council of New Zealand has now extended and gazetted its scope of practice to allow midwives, subject to education and training, to prescribe lethal drugs to kill unborn children in medical abortions and to violently dismember children in surgical abortions. This is a total violation of the ethics of the profession to protect mothers and their precious unborn.

The web site of the Midwifery Council proudly proclaims, ‘Health and safety of mothers and babies comes first” and “Guardians of professional standards”.

Our midwives enjoy a well-earned reputation as caring health professionals who since the beginning of the human race have enjoyed the love and respect of the community. What greater vocation is there than to have the privilege to care for expectant mothers and their precious and vulnerable unborn children. We the community have a duty to protect our midwives and their professional standards.

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation that is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life. It is an unspeakable outrage for the government to inflict on our respected midwives a direction that they have a responsibility to kill the unborn at the request of the mother. This surely is a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity.

Right to Life asks, ‘Prime Minister, why do you want midwives to become killers?’ The community should be aware that this assault on women and their unborn children is her responsibility as the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020. It was Jacinda Ardern who worked closely with the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little to draft this infamous Bill.

Right to Life believes that requiring midwives to kill the unborn will destroy the profession. Why should a pregnant women trust a midwife who believes that killing their child before birth could be a treatment option?

There will be no place in the profession for those midwives who are not prepared to kill the innocent and defenceless unborn. The conscience provision in Section 46 of the earlier CS & A Act have now been repealed. Those who refuse to kill on the grounds of conscience will be compelled by law to refer the woman to a midwife who is prepared to kill.

Right to Life requests that the government take urgent action to repeal this anti-life and anti- women legislation. We also urge that midwives in New Zealand defend their profession, defend their ethics and defend women and the unborn by refusing to submit to the government’s demand that they stain their hands with the blood of the innocent. They should be confident of the active support of the community.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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