The link below is to an  article is by Dr Peter Saunders a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members.

The article is from The National Right to Life website and concerns  an editorial in the British Medical Journal this week by a retired professor of philosophy titled ‘Sanctity of life law has gone too far’.

In a nutshell Professor  Raanan Gillon did not like a decision by a British judge who  decided that a  woman who was minimally conscious, should not have her feeding tube removed as she did not have a valid and applicable advance directive in place. Instead he gave priority to preserving her life. Gillan conveniently did not in the journal article mention that the woman ‘M’,  had some awareness of herself and her environment, some understanding of language, occasionally spoke, appeared to be able to appreciate some things that were said to her and responded to music.

Gillon’s (photo shown) real motives can be surmised in this extract from the article

‘The logical implications of this judgment threaten to skew the delivery of severely resource limited healthcare services towards providing non-beneficial or minimally beneficial life prolonging treatments including artificial nutrition and hydration to thousands of severely demented patients whose families and friends believe they would not have wanted such treatment. The opportunity cost will probably be reduced provision of indisputably beneficial treatments to people who do want them.’

To read the article on the National Right to Life website click here

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Right to Life is disappointed that the government is victimising women on the Domestic Purposes Benefit. The Hon Paula Bennett has announced the introduction of free contraception for women on the DPB and for their daughters over the age of 16. The contraception comprises the intra uterine device, [IUD], Depo Provera and long term Jadell implants.

The contraceptive programme was included in the recommendations of the Welfare Working Group as being a compulsory requirement for women to receive the DPB. This would be a gross violation of the human rights of women. The community should vigorously oppose this programme. If today we accept this programme offered under the guise of choice, tomorrow it may become a compulsory requirement for women who seek the DPB to be subject to long term contraception to prevent them having further children while on the DPB. We are living in dangerous times when the government may in the future consider using contraception as a weapon to control the community. We could follow China with its one child family policy, with forced abortions and sterilisations. The government’s proposed programme is morally reprehensible:

•  Contraception is part of a culture of death, is contrary to the natural law, violates a woman’s body and is intrinsically evil.
•  The programme upholds the government’s failed Family Planning style comprehensive sex education and its so called “safe sex “programme that promotes sexual activity outside of marriage.
• Offering free contraceptives to the daughters of those on the DPB is giving the message to young girls that being promiscuous is acceptable.
•  The Jadell long term implant releases the hormone levongestral into a woman’s body. The long term effects on a woman’s health are unknown. 

The programme is insulting, discriminatory and demeaning to women. The introduction of this programme wrongly infers that women on the DPB are promiscuous and irresponsible.  The truth is:

• There are 112,000 persons on the DPB, the vast majority are women. Teenagers number only 1165, which is only 2.7 per cent of the total. Only 20 per cent of women on the DPB have additional children while on the benefit.
• The government claims that the programme’s objective is to reduce benefit dependency. This is untrue, 67.7 per cent of women are on the DPB for four years or less, hardly a lifetime choice.
•  Women on the DPB are the most maligned sector of our community; it is often claimed that many are defrauding the government. This is untrue; in 2007 Social Welfare set up a special fraud intelligence unit to detect benefit fraud. The Department checked 29 million records and found that benefit fraud rate amounted to only 0.10 per cent (in plain terms one in a thousand) that showed that women receiving the DPB were exceedingly honest.

The Welfare Working Group has failed;

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Hon Bill English,

Minister of Finance,

Dear Mr English

Re: Government Funding for the Killing of Unborn Children

Our Society wishes to express its opposition to the government funding of the killing of unborn children as a core health service under the guise that the life of the baby is a threat to the mental health of the mother. Right to Life is opposed to abortions being funded by the government for the following reasons;

In 2010 there were 16,630 abortions performed in New Zealand at an estimated cost of $16,630,000. In addition there was $4,551,929 paid in fees to certifying consultants for having consultations with women seeking an abortion. The Minister of Health has advised that in 2003 there were 25,000 hospital bed stay days due to complications from abortion. It is estimated that the cost for this hospitalisation was an estimated $25 million. The current abortion regime was established with the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, [CS&A Act]. Since then a total of 405,567 abortions have been reported to the Abortion Supervisory Committee, [ASC]. Abortions are not genuine health services.

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This issue of Footprints the tri-annual magazine of Right to Life is printed in colour for the first time.

This Issue contains the following Articles

Abortion Statistics – 2010 Our Nation’s Loss pages 1-3
Crimes Act Amendment  page 2
Society Report page 3
Supreme Court of New Zealand -Judicial Review  page 4
Abortion Supervisory Committee  upholds right of conscience pages 4-5
Further Staff refuse to assist in the Killing of unborn children  page 5
Protecting the unborn with Down Syndrome  pages  6-7
Down Syndrome Awareness  page 7
The Primer Minister – Forfeited right to govern  page 8
A Victory for Conscience and a Culture of Life  page 9
New FDA Report  page 10
News in Brief  page 11

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has honoured Dr Gill Greer by making her a Commander of the British Empire [CBE]. The award was made to Dr Greer in the British New Year honours list for her international work of promoting the sexual health of women and girls. Dr Greer was previously the Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation [IPPF] for six years, which operates in 180 countries. Dr Greer was prior to that appointment, the Executive Director of the New Zealand Family Planning Association for eight years. The government of Helen Clarke was instrumental in Dr Greer being made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005

Right to Life is disappointed that this high honour has been bestowed on Dr Greer by the British  government. It is inappropriate to honour Dr Greer who has presided over the largest abortion enterprise in the world which aggressively and relentlessly promotes a culture of death. In 2009 affiliates of the IPPF worldwide killed 1,411,494  innocent and defenceless unborn children by abortion. This is a violation of the human rights of unborn children and is a crime against humanity. The Federation had an income of US $33 million.

The award is giving public approval to the work of the IPPF in promoting the killing of innocent unborn children worldwide in 180 countries. IPPF is racist and promotes eugenics. Planned Parenthood in the United States was founded by Margaret Sanger who sought to reduce the Negro population by promoting abortion, sterilisation and contraception. She believed that only the fit had a right to be born and promoted the sterilisation of those she termed “the feeble minded”.

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