Media Release 12 November 2024
Right to Life asks the Prime Minister: When is he going to make a public apology to God for the torture and killing of His precious infants in the care of the state?
Each child destroyed was made in the image and likeness of its Creator, a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, who was deserving of our love and protection. It is a foolish people who merit the wrath of the Creator, by killing His children and wounding their mothers. We should mourn for our children lost, do penance and seek God’s forgiveness.
The Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, commendably made a public apology today, 12 November 2024, for the electric shock therapy torture inflicted on the 200 children at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital, and he gave a sincere assurance that it would never happen again.
Right to Life asks the Prime Minister: If he is appalled by the torture of children at Lake Alice Hospital in the 1970s, then why is he also not appalled by the torture and killing of 16,200 defenceless unborn children in 2023, all funded by his government as a “reproductive health choice?.”
Right to Life believes that there is a “conspiracy of silence” in New Zealand protecting the torture and killing of unborn children, which is supported by parliament, many church leaders, the news media, and the medical and the legal professions.
Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up in defence of the more than 600,000 defenceless and innocent unborn children who were tortured and murdered while in the care of the state since 1978.The mothers of these children are the second victim of these appalling atrocities. When torture and suffering are inflicted on the unborn, it is also inflicted on the mother, who suffers with her unborn child.
It is indefensible that these innocent and defenceless children, who are believed to feel pain from 12 weeks gestation, are subjected to excruciating pain, as they are poisoned or sucked out of their mother’s womb or violently dismembered. It is simply unbelievable that these children are not given any pain relief before they are executed.
New Zealand is a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Torture & Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. New Zealand signed the treaty on 10 December 1984.
Right to Life questions the government in claiming to have an outstanding record in upholding and protecting human rights and in complying with the UN Convention against torture.
Torture is illegal in New Zealand, it is prohibited in the NZ Crimes of Torture Act 1989. Upon conviction a person may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 14 years. It is also outlawed in the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990. Everyone, including unborn children, has the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel or degrading treatment.
Right to Life asks why then does the government allow and fund the torture and killing of defenceless unborn New Zealanders? The government inflicts this injustice on our own children under the pretence that our children before birth are not human beings, and do not have a right to life until they are born; therefore they may be tortured and violently killed before birth.
It was the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, designed by Dame Jacinda Ardern, which enshrined the legal fiction that unborn children were not human beings with a right to life until they were born; this was done in deliberate defiance of the findings of the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion.
Right to Life reminds the government that the Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion, reported to Parliament in 1977, that human life begins at conception. “From implantation to birth, changes which take place in the unborn child are of a developmental nature only. There are no changes of a qualitative nature.” “The unborn child, as one of the weakest, the most vulnerable and most defenceless forms of humanity, should receive protection”.
Right to Life asks the government: When is it going to establish a Royal Commission to investigate the state funded killing of more than 600,000 unborn children since 1978 in the care of the state in New Zealand?
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.