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Right to Life Letter to all NZ MP’s Concerning Proposed Bill to Decriminalise Abortion

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image Dear (Letter sent to all NZ MP’s)

Re: Proposed Bill to Decriminalize Abortion.

I wish to express concern at the proposal of the Hon Steve Chadwick to sponsor a private members Bill to seek the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. It is her intention to seek cross party support. We believe that the proposed Bill is not in the best interest of women, their unborn children or of society. Our reasons for our opposition to the proposed Bill are as follows.

What does ‘Decriminalisation of Abortion Mean’?
It is the removal of all reference to abortion from the New Zealand Criminal Code, allowing abortion to be performed on any unborn child for "any" or "no" reason up until 24 weeks. It would no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child. We believe that effectively we would have abortion on demand up until the child is born. In this situation there would be no legal safeguards in place to protect the lives of the unborn child or the pregnant mother.
Decriminalisation would be contrary to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion, 1977.

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Right to Life Versus Abortion Supervisory Committee Time-Line Summary

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image May 2005 RTL filed a mandamus in the High Court in Wellington against the ASC for its alleged failure to fulfil its statutory duties. These claims included the failure of the ASC to ensure that the human rights of unborn children received the full protection of the law, the failure to hold certifying consultants accountable for the lawfulness of the abortions they authorised and the failure to stop abortion on demand.

20 June 2005 The ASC applied for orders striking out the proceedings against the ASC. The ASC described the action as vexatious and an abuse of the Court’s process.

8 September 2005 In the High Court in Wellington Mr Justice Wild heard the case between RTL and the three members of the ASC, Dr Lesley Rothwell, Dr Papaarangi Reid and Mrs Marlene Lamb (the latter had resigned from the committee in March 2005, leaving a vacancy.). Counsel from the Crown Law Office, are representing the ASC. RTL named the Attorney-General as second defendant. The judge decided that some of RTL’s claims should be struck out but that others, if rewritten, could proceed. The Attorney-General was named by RTL as a defendant, Justice Wild struck his name out of the action.

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Is New Zealand Going to Decriminalise Abortion or Protect Human Life?

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Hon Steve Chadwick

Parliament Building,

Wellington.

Dear Ms Chadwick,

I wish to express concern at your proposal to sponsor a private members Bill to seek the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. Our Society recognizes that you are motivated by a desire to act in the best interest of women, an objective that we share with you. We believe that the proposed Bill is not in the best interest of women, their unborn children or of society. Our reasons for our opposition to the proposed Bill are as follows.

DECRIMINALISING ABORTION VS HUMAN LIFE

What does ‘Decriminalisation of Abortion mean’?
It is the removal of all reference to abortion from the New Zealand Criminal Code, allowing abortion to be performed on any unborn child for “any” or “no” reason up until 24 weeks. We believe that effectively we would have abortion on demand up until the child is born. In this situation there would be no legal safeguards in place to protect the lives of the unborn child or the pregnant mother.

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Andrea Boccelli Famed Blind Singer Reveals, He Was Almost Aborted

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image LifeSiteNews this week reported the following post.

What would the world have been like without Andrea Bocelli, Italian pop, opera, and classical singer? With millions of infants having been victim to abortion, the blind international music sensation has revealed that he too could have been one more abortion statistic. 
The “I am Whole Life” project has produced a YouTube video with Bocelli, playing the piano, recounting the story of a young woman who had been hospitalized and treated for a “simple attack of appendicitis.”
As Bocelli recounts, doctors had suggested to his mother that she “abort the child” because the child would be born with a disability.

“But the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born,” recounted Bocelli. “That woman was my mother, and I was the child.”   Read more from the LifeSiteNews.com website

Waikato District Health Board is Pro Family Planning’s Application to Kill Unborn Children at Hamilton Clinic

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stop Family Planning 27 May 2010

Mr Harry Mikaere,

Waikato District Health Board,

PO Box 934,

Hamilton 3240.

Dear Mr Mikaere

Re: Licence to Kill Unborn Children – Family Planning

I am writing to you and your colleagues on the Waikato District Health Board to express our Society’s concern at your Board’s support for the Family Planning Association obtaining an abortion licence for its Hamilton clinic. We believe that should the Association obtain a licence to kill unborn children at its Hamilton clinic it will be a threat to the health and welfare of vulnerable women and to the lives of their unborn children. It is the objective of the Association to ultimately obtain an abortion licence for each of its 30 clinics. The Association claims that it is providing choice for women.

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Abortion Supervisory Committee Concerned at Shortage of Doctors to Kill Unborn Children

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image The latest issue of the Right to Life New Zealand’s magazine “Footprints” is now up click here to download the magazine in PDF format. (note – needs PDF Reader)

The lead article in the the magazine features the above headline.

In this issue

Abortion Supervisory Committee
President’s Report /Society Report 2
Best Practice Termination of Pregnancy in New Zealand
Conscience or Tyranny
Abortion wars – seeing what we kill
NZ Govt Promoting a culture of death?
Family planning Assoc. – Death Peddlers
Downs Syndrome -A death sentence
Judicial Review-Performance of ASC
News in Brief
World News

How can the next generation defend abortion rights when they don’t think abortion rights need defending?

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image Abortion activists both here and in the US are facing a growing problem. They are facing a growing backlash against abortion by young people.

NARAL a radical Pro-abortion organisation in the US have  just released survey results showing an “intensity gap” among young voters. More than half of pro-lifers under age 30 considered abortion a “very important” voting issue, compared to just one-quarter of abortion-minded youth. This comes at the heels of a Gallup poll announcing that 18- to 29-year-olds are now the most likely, of all age groups, to favour making abortion illegal in all circumstances.

The wave of pro-life passion puzzles NARAL President Nancy Keenan. In this week’s Newsweek magazine, Keenan recalled her visit to the March for Life rally in Washington, DC. The annual event drew tens of thousands of energized pro-lifers. “I just thought, my gosh, they are so young,” she told the reporter. “There are so many of them, and they are so young.”

A similar thing is happening here in New Zealand. At the recent Pro-life march held in Christchurch in April, what was apparent was the large number of young people amongst the over 300 people who marched.

Judicial Review of the Performance of the Abortion Supervisory Committee – Summary of Right to Life Court Action

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image May 2005 RTL filed a mandamus in the High Court in Wellington against the ASC for its alleged failure to fulfil its statutory duties. These claims included the failure of the ASC to ensure that the human rights of unborn children received the full protection of the law, the failure to hold certifying consultants accountable for the lawfulness of the abortions they authorised and the failure to stop abortion on demand.

image 20 June 2005 The ASC applied for orders striking out the proceedings against the ASC. The ASC described the action as vexatious and an abuse of the Court’s process.

8 September 2005 In the High Court in Wellington Mr Justice Wild heard the case between RTL and the three members of the ASC, Dr Lesley Rothwell, Dr Papaarangi Reid and Mrs Marlene Lamb (the latter had resigned from the committee in March 2005, leaving a vacancy.) Counsel from the Crown Law Office are representing the ASC.  RTL named the Attorney-General as second defendant. The judge decided that some of RTL’s claims should be struck out but that others, if rewritten, could proceed. The Attorney-General was named by RTL as a defendant, Justice Wild struck his name out of the action.

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Right to Life Questions ASC on RU 486 Abortion Protocols

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image Letter to ASC under Official Information Act

Dear Sir,

 

I wish to request under the Official Information Act copies of your Committee’s minutes subsequent to the 2 July 2009.

Your Committee is currently considering an application from the Family Planning Association for an abortion licence for its Hamilton clinic. Is the Association required to comply with the requirements of the Contraception sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, section 21. [1] [a],[b] and [c].

It is noted that the “Guidelines for the Use of Mifepristone for Medical Abortion in New Zealand”, specifically state in 6.3.4, that after the administration of Mifepristone the patient is required to be kept under medical/nursing observation for one hour to ensure there is no reaction to the drug and that it has been ingested…

It is further noted that 6.4.2.requires that after the administration of Misoprostol the patient is generally required to be kept under observation over the next 4 – 6 hours.

It would be appreciated if you would advise if Family Planning would be required to conform to these guidelines at its Hamilton clinic, should it be granted a licence.

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Action Alert Urgent – Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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image To the people of New Zealand. We ask you to write urgently to the Minister of Health, Hon Tony Ryall requesting that he decline the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology [ACART] to allow for embryonic stem cell research to be conducted on so- called “spare” human embryos stored in IVF clinics in New Zealand. Human embryos are members of the human family and are endowed by their Creator at conception with an inalienable right to life. The proposed research entails the destruction of these tiny human beings. It is estimated that there are an estimated 7,000 human embryos in storage in New Zealand. The recommendation was made to the Minister in 2008. Mr Ryall advised our Society in January 2010 that he had not yet made a decision on this important human rights issue. Research worldwide on human embryos has not produced any treatment that would benefit mankind, while research on ethically obtained stem cells from sources that do not entail the destruction of human life have produced many cures. In the event that the Minister approved the recommendation of ACART the next step would be to approve the creation of human embryos specifically for stem cell research. This is a further manifestation of a culture of death. Please speak up on behalf of those without a voice. The Ministers address is Parliament Building, Wellington, no stamp required.

Ken Orr

For Right to Life Executive

This is the website of Right to Life NZ Inc.
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