Editor,

Otago Daily Times.

Dear Sir

Re 18 January. The continued fall in the abortion statistics is encouraging. The abortion ratio, the number of abortions per 1000 known pregnancies is 193 in 2003 it was 247. This proves that the major cause for the reduction is that more women are choosing life for their babies. These women, often alone are truly heroic and deserve the support of the community. The Abortion Supervisory Committee in its report to Parliament for 2013 as in 2012, again claims concern about harassment of those seeking or providing abortion services. and warns of potential violence. The Committee refuse to provide any information on the nature and locality of the alleged harassment, why is this? The pro-life movement refutes the unsubstantiated allegations of the Committee. Members of the pro-life movement have a right to peacefully assemble outside abortion facilities to pray and to offer counselling and help to women seeking to terminate the life of their child. Many women have expressed profound gratitude to those people who offered them unconditional love and support, at their hour of need to help them choose life for their baby. Why does the Committee feel threatened by people praying and offering help?

 

Yours sincerely

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

6 August 2013

The Secretary

Abortion Supervisory Committee…

Dear Ms Cole,

Correspondence relating to the Supreme Court judgment

1. We have received your letter dated 25 June 2013.

2. We do not regard that letter as adequately responding to the matters that we have raised with you, arising from the Supreme Court judgment.

Recommendation by Health and Disability Commissioner

3. The Committee states that it will not be implementing the Commissioner’s recommendation that it give consideration to drafting guidelines for the assistance of health professionals and consumers. It gives no reason for adopting what on the face of it appears to be an arbitrary rejection of Mr Patterson’s recommendation.

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The following article is from LifeNews.com 7th July 2013

Note: The following was sent earlier this week to National Right to Life. It speaks volumes about a part of the abortion battle that is rarely discussed: its impact on siblings.

About a week ago my mother told me that she had an abortion before I was born. It devastated me. Mourning someone I have never met seems bizarre to me, yet I am so sad. To help me find closure I wrote my half sibling, that I will never meet, a letter.

I think there is a lot of focus on the baby, the mother, or at most the father, which is great and needed, but I also think pointing out the effects an abortion can have for future children would prove to be very impactful. I did not even exist when my half sibling was killed, yet it has affected me tremendously.

Below is the letter:

Click here for the full article at LifeNews

Between the 28th to 30th May, more than 4,000 delegates from 145 countries attended the launch of the third Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Featured speakers over the three-day event included;

Melinda Gates, of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)

Dr. Babatunde Osotemehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund

 U.S Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (by video) and her daughter Chelsea Clinton

What have these women got in common and what do they seek?  Simply a desire to push their pernicious  barrow of what they call ‘reproductive health’,  aka,  peddling chemical abortifacients such as  misoprostol and the practice of  abortion upon women in third world countries where the sanctity of life is still valued and abortion is illegal.

Talk about “The New Imperialism”.

They wish to export the very policies that have caused economic decline, aging population demographics and the destruction of the family in the Western World to the Third. Nice!

Some commentators have described this farce as the “Princess and the Billionaire”. The one complaining of the pea,    the other waving a fist-full of dollars,  while the whole house is burning.

This is nothing less than the pushing of depopulation strategies on poorer nations thinly veiled as being concern for women’s health.

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The following article ‘Breathtaking conformity’ by Brendan O’Neill is from the  MercatorNet website. Starts…

Anyone who values diversity of thought and tolerance of dissent should find the sweeping consensus on gay marriage terrifying.

I have been doing or writing about political stuff for 20 years, since I was 18 years old, during which time I have got behind some pretty unpopular campaigns and kicked against some stifling consensuses.

But I have never encountered an issue like gay marriage, an issue in which the space for dissent has shrunk so rapidly, and in which the consensus is not only stifling but choking. This is the only issue on which, for criticising it from a liberal, secular perspective, I’ve been booed during an after-dinner speech and received death threats (“If you’re dead, you can’t talk shit about gay marriage”).

 

Follow this link to read the article on the MercatorNet website. This article provides some thoughtful insights into not only the rise of ‘gay marriage’ but also perhaps into the nature of rapid change in society and what this may mean for all our futures. Might we argue that we can  extrapolate the sociological mechanisms involved here to predict  the destruction of other social norms that have  stood for millennia?  Right to Life.

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Right to Life comments that  If you think the passing of Louisa Wall’s Bill  (given lots of extra teeth courtesy of the Parliamentary Select Committee who added to it), is all that the homosexual lobby want, then think again.  Have a read of what is happening in the US. 

Homosexual activists target two young girls