Media Release 5 December 2024
Right to Life believes that the first duty of the state is to protect the lives of every member of the community from conception to natural death. The Ministry of Health commendably recognises that the first 1000 days from conception are critically important for the wellbeing of the child.
Right to Life asks: Why then were more than 16,000 unborn children killed in New Zealand in 2023, mostly within the first 100 days of their lives?
Why does the state not acknowledge that every unborn child is endowed by God its Creator with an inalienable right to life at conception? A right to life that may not be taken from it, nor may it give it up.
Right to Life made an Official Information Act request on 15th November, and in their response of 25th November, Right to Life is disappointed that the Ministry of Justice staff declined to state the Ministry of Justice’s policy on important issues concerning unborn children.
On behalf of Hon Paul Goldsmith, I acknowledge receipt of your email dated 15 November 2024, transferred to our Office on 20 November 2024.You requested under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
• One in five unborn New Zealanders are poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or dismembered.
Does the government recognise that this constitutes violence and torture against defenceless and innocent unborn children?
• Does the government have a responsibility to legislate to prohibit violence and torture being inflicted on unborn children in New Zealand?
• In view of the government’s recent public apology concerning the torture of born children in the care of the state, what action will the government be taking to prevent violence and the torture of unborn children in the care of the state?
The Act does not support requests where an opinion or statement is put to a Minister or agency for response, couched as a request for official information. Your request is therefore refused under section 18(g) of the Act on the grounds that the information sought is not held by the Minister and there is no reason to believe it is held by any other agency subject to the Act.
Right to Life questions the response of the Ministry of Justice and believes that they should have a policy which recognises that abortion is violence against unborn children, and that poisoning children, sucking them out of their mother’s womb, or dismembering them constitutes violence against the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family.
Right to Life believes that the war against women and the killing of the unborn is inflicted on women, by the state in state care under the guise that the state is providing a health service.
Right to Life will not rest until the state recognises the unborn child as a human being from conception endowed with an inalienable right to life, and ceases its war against women and their precious unborn.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc