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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice

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Media Release Saturday 2nd July 2022

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice”.

It is attributed to Dante, that “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality

Right to Life is disappointed that the leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon, who claims to be pro-life, has declared that, “I want women in New Zealand to have absolute certainty that when I am Prime Minister in a National government they know that our abortion laws are not going to be re-litigated or re-visited, that they know that funding for these services are going to be maintained”. He also stated,” I have a pro-life position but the reality is in New Zealand there is no need for us to change the laws”. This is not a pro-life position, it is aggressively promoting a culture of death and should be opposed.

Christopher Luxon stated last year on being elected leader that “abortion was tantamount to murder”.

Those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be trusted to govern those who are born. If the National Party is not committed to protecting the lives of defenceless unborn children, why should we trust them to protect our lives?

If Christopher Luxon believes that abortion is murder how can he in conscience concede to accept the murder of 64 unborn children each day, totalling more than 13,000 a year?

How can he say that,” there is no need to change the law”?

The message that he is giving to the women of New Zealand is, I know that abortion is violence against women and your precious unborn, however I am not prepared to defend you and protect you because it is now settled law.

Christopher Luxon looks up to William Wilberforce as his model who succeeded in 1807 after 20 years of campaigning as a Member of Parliament in Westminster to abolish the slave trade in England. Wilberforce was a man of deep Christian faith who allowed his faith to motivate his politics. Wilberforce recognised the dignity of every human being made in the image and likeness of God. He rejected the pro-slavery philosophy that slaves were not human beings and that it was the human right to choose to own slaves.

Abortion is the new slavery promoted like slavery as a human right. The cry now is that the unborn child is not a human being, it has no right to life and it is a human right for women to choose to kill their child before it is born.

Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon should now follow the example of Wilberforce and be a leader and a statesman in government campaigning against the violence of abortion inflicted on women and their unborn. He should recognise that human life begins at conception and that every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation endowed with an inalienable right to life. His faith should influence his politics by committing himself and his Party to the abolition of abortion. New Zealand desperately needs a statesman who is concerned for the next generation, not a politician who is concerned about the next election.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Roe v Wade overturned – victory for women and unborn

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Media Release Saturday 25th June 2022

Right to Life welcomes the six to three decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn the notorious Roe v Wade decision of 1973.

The overthrow of Roe Wade acknowledges the right of States to legislate to protect women from the violence of abortion and their unborn children from being killed before birth. There are 19 States that would ban abortion and 7 that would severely restrict abortion.

The Roe Wade decision written by Justice Harry Blackmun in 1973 constitutes one of the most unjust decisions ever  made by the Court. It was badly decided, violated the Constitution of the United States, had no basis in the law or history of the United States or in English Common Law. International law is silent on abortion and there is no human right to abortion.

The Roe Wade decision unleased on the United States, a 49 year reign of terror of violence on women and their unborn. Since 1973 more than 64 million unborn children in the United States have been poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or been violently dismembered. This was a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity.    

The overthrow of Roe v. Wade is a victory for a culture of life and a defeat for the culture of death. It recognises that the unborn child is a human being endowed with a right to life, deserving of respect and protection. The repercussions will reverberate throughout the world including New Zealand. This overthrow will herald a new age of respect for women and for their precious unborn, who are created in the image and likeness of their Creator.

Right to Life is committed to continue campaigning for legal recognition of the unborn child as a human being endowed with a right to life from implantation and for the repeal of the extremist anti-life Abortion Legislation Act 2020.

“We need to show that we can create a world where we can love children and not kill them. A world where adoption is always a better option, a world where we care for women and their children. This is our opportunity to make the grisly performance of abortion like slavery unthinkable in a civilised modern society”.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Are our political leaders really serious about opposing violence?

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Media Release 15 June 2022

Right to Life asks who is the greatest threat to innocent life in New Zealand – the government that funds and authorises the killing of 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children each year, or the criminal gangs?

 Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and the leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon are not consistent in opposing violence in our community.

The Prime Minister is commended for opposing the increased violence inflicted on our community by gangs with 20 recent drive by shootings.

Right to Life asks, why then is she silent on the horrific violence inflicted on women and the unborn with abortion that is funded and authorised by her government under a law that she carefully designed. This violence results in an estimated 36 unborn children each day being poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or being violently dismembered with their limbs being torn from their tiny bodies.

The community will not be deceived by this cruel charade which seeks to portray the government as our protector when Right to Life asks who presents the greatest threat to life, the government that funds the killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children each year or the criminal gangs?

The leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon, is to be commended for opposing the violence of the gangs. On 11th June he stated; “New Zealanders deserve to feel safe in their homes and communities.”

Today the most dangerous place for a New Zealander is in the mother’s womb. The womb is the home of the unborn child, it should be a place of security. It is disappointing that Christopher Luxon, who is passionate about opposing gang violence, is responding with a deafening silence to the silent scream of unborn children who protest at being violently and painfully killed with their bodily remains treated as medical waste to be disposed of at the local tip under the guise that it is a health service.

Right to Life is disappointed that Christopher Luxon, who is inspired by William Wilberforce, refuses to acknowledge that the unborn child is a human being with a right to life until it is born, this is slavery where the child becomes the property of the mother.

He has made it clear that his government will accept the killing of our children up to birth effectively for any reason as “settled law” and he has no intention of seeking to change the law, he has “other priorities.”

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister and Christopher Luxon, if you refuse to protect the defenceless unborn child why should we trust you to protect the born?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Abortion Statistics 2019 – 36 Unborn Children are Killed Every Day in New Zealand.

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Media Release 17th June 2020

Many women in 2019 chose life for their baby in preference to the violence of abortion. Right to Life congratulates these heroic women who deserve the love and support of our community.

Every day it is estimated that thirty-six unborn children are taken to Hospitals and clinics to be violently killed. If this number of children were taken out of our kindergartens each day to be murdered there would be riots in our cities and towns. Statistics NZ report that In 2019 there were 12,857 abortions reported in New Zealand. This is a decrease of 425 abortions on the 13,282 abortions reported in 2018. We should mourn with these women who are grieving the loss of their precious child. There were only 35 abortions authorised on the grounds of “danger to life and/or Physical Health.

Right to Life also grieves with the women who were so often abandoned by the father of the child in the time of the woman’s greatest need and coerced into an abortion that was chosen for her. It is a cruel mockery and charade for society to pretend that it is “a woman’s right to choose.” “Choosing” an abortion is a decision of despair and a cry for help.

The abortion statistics are an indictment on our Parliament which sanctions and funds the killing of the innocent as in the words of our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, “a reproductive choice for women.” Abortion is a core health service with unlimited funding and no waiting list, our women deserve better. The statistics disguise the reality that every child  violently dismembered in the  womb of the child’s mother is an unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

The statistics are also an indictment on the media which have generally ignored the media release on abortion statistics made by Statistics NZ It was Joseph Stalin who said the killing of one human being is a tragedy and the killing of tens of thousands just a statistic. Since 1977 more than 500,000 children have been violently killed in their mother’s womb, a massive violation of human rights. Why is the media so coldly indifferent to the killing of New Zealand children in their first nine months of life?

Right to Life requests that the government introduce abstinence sexuality programmes to replace Family Planning school sex education programs which encourage promiscuity with abortions arranged without the knowledge or consent of parents as a backup for failed contraceptives.

Repeat abortions totalled 4,645, 3,008 were having their second, 1,081 were having their third, 326 were having their fourth, 132 their fifth, 62 their sixth, 26 their seventh and 10 their eighth or more. Right to Life believes that these statistics are under reported. Studies conducted in the United States, reveal that repeat abortions are actually 50 per cent of the total abortions reported.

Key Facts Abortion Statistics 2019

  • The general abortion rate was 13.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, down slightly from 13.7 per 1,000 in 2018
  • Women aged 20–24 years had the highest abortion rate (19.5 abortions per 1,000 women aged 20–24 years), down from 20.5 in 2018.
  • 51 percent of all abortions were for women aged in their 20s
  • Most abortions (64 percent) were a woman’s first abortion, unchanged from 2018.
  • 64 percent of abortions were performed before the 10th week of the pregnancy, up from 50 percent in 2018.
  • 18 percent of known pregnancies (live births, stillbirths, and abortions) ended in an abortion, unchanged from 2018.
  • 78 young women under the age of 16 years had an abortion in 2019. Statistics have been discontinued on the number of young women who alleged that they had notified their parents or guardian of their abortion.
  • 12,498 abortions were authorised on the grounds of mental health, the grounds used by certifying consultants to provide abortion on demand. This is 98 percent of the total. There were 35 abortions authorised on the grounds of danger to life/ and or Physical Health.

 

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little Upset at being exposed to the Violence of Abortion

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Media Release Friday 6th March 2020

“Prime Minister, we the unborn have no voice. We must then let our broken and bloodied bodies speak to you.”

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little were upset that Members of Parliament should see graphic pictures of defenceless and weak unborn children who have been violently killed in abortions.

Right to Life asks them that if graphics exposing the bodies of the brutally murdered victims of abortion are so horrible that you cannot stand to look at them, why do you tolerate and facilitate their murder?

Members of the pro-life movement gathered peacefully outside Parliament on the day of the second reading of the anti-women and anti -life Abortion Legislation Bill. Several members held heart rendering graphic pictures of aborted babies.

The Prime Minister, who has enthusiastically sponsored her Labour led government bill, said she was personally against the use of such images.

“I just think that’s not a way to share the legitimate views that other people will have,”

“People will have their own views and they should be able to freely express them. But people should also be mindful that those who have gone through some of these experiences, that will weigh heavy for many.”

Prime Minister, every abortion results in a dead baby. How can we debate your Bill when you refuse to acknowledge that abortion kills an innocent human being?

Right to Life sympathises with the Prime Minister, it is very disturbing to see pictures of the dismembered and bloodied bodies of children who have been violently killed.
Right to Life believes that if we are going to engage in a respectful and informed debate about abortion it is important to consider the objective of abortion. Every abortion results in a violently killed child.

Justice Minister Andrew Little also objected to the use of such images.

“New Zealanders on average have a low level of tolerance for that sort of extremism. If these people want to go around upsetting the rest of New Zealand, that’s their call.”
Minister, why is it extreme to graphically depict the results of your ill -conceived abortion Bill? Is it not your Bill that is extreme? Is It not you and your extreme abortion  Bill that is upsetting the rest of New Zealand?

“We are the unborn, we are the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, why do you want to kill us, why are you not protecting us?

From the moment of conception we are human beings endowed with an inalienable right to life. We come to bless our nation, we want to love and be loved. You choose not to hear our silent scream, as the abortionist forces his way into our home intent on violently killing us. You do not hear our voice so let the graphic pictures of our bloodied and dismembered bodies speak to you.”

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Why no National Memorial Service for Victims of Abortion?

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Why is the Prime Minister opposed to violence against Muslims yet supports violence against the defenceless unborn?

The Prime Minister is commended for leading the nation in its grief and sorrow in a remembrance for the fifty innocent Muslim victims who lost their lives in the appalling massacre at the mosques in Christchurch on Friday 15 March.

She will be present at a National interfaith Memorial Service for victims, which, will be held on Friday 29 March in Hagley Park at 10 am.

It is fitting that we should have this prayerful service. The Prime Minister in a media release on 21 March stated that it showed that we were “compassionate, inclusive and diverse.”

Right to Life asks when is the Prime Minister going to call for a national Memorial Service to enable our community to express its grief and sorrow for the killing of over 500,000 unborn children killed since 1978 and the 13,000 unborn children killed each year and its compassion for the mothers who are grievously wounded by the violence of abortion?

It took the Prime Minister six days to ban the sale of military style semi-automatic weapons and all assault rifles, How long will it take her to ban the instruments of abortion?

We also ask when the Prime Minister and the New Zealand government, in recognition of World Down syndrome Day, is going to hold a National Memorial Service and a call to prayer, followed by 2 minutes silence for the 50 unborn children killed through the National Screening Programme in the last year? Will the Prime Minister then apologise to the Down syndrome community for promoting hate towards them and announce an immediate ban on the screening programme?

Why does the government maintain a deafening silence and exhibits no remorse for the violence inflicted on our children and their mothers by the state which authorises and funds, with unlimited funding, the abortion industry as a core health service and a “reproductive choice for women”?

Muslims should be free to pray in their mosques without the threat of violence and equally our unborn children should be free to live and grow in the sanctuary of their mother’s wombs free from the threat of violence.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

United Nations International Women’s Day – preventing violence against Women

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Media Release 8 M

Right to Life fully supports the International Women’s Day 8 March, to promote gender equality, and to oppose discrimination including violence against Women. We  commend the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for speaking out against violence against women. Violence against women and girls is an international problem of pandemic proportions. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime and it as always unacceptable.

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister “how can you oppose violence against women and yet support the violence done in abortion against women and their precious unborn? How can you say you are opposed to violence against women and yet say that killing a woman in the womb is not a crime but a “reproductive health choice for women?”

Andrew Little on 27 October 2018 made the following comments on Newshub Nation, in response to concerns about the options put forward by the Law Commission. He said in regards to the potential lack of safeguards concerning sex-selection abortions, that women are “quite capable of making these judgements themselves. I don’t buy into this argument that we should start working through a checklist of potential things, reasons why women might seek an abortion.”

Right to Life believes that this statement by Little shows an appalling discrimination against women in the first nine months of their lives in the womb. What in effect he is saying, is that he believes gender should be a ground for abortion. We believe that the vast majority of New Zealanders would be shocked by a Miniser of Justice making such statements which may be construed as his support of sex selective abortion

The Police in New Zealand received over one hundred thousand in fact, 118,910 family violence calls to be exact, in 2017.  There were 13 women killed by their partner or ex partner in 2015. Violence against women takes many forms. It is disappointing that our community is in denial and refuses to recognise that abortion is violence against vulnerable women and their unborn child. An abortion entails an assault on the womb of a woman and a lethal assault on the life of her child.  Frequently it is because the father of the child wants the child killed because he refuses to accept responsibility for the child he has fathered, or for the care of the mother of his child. Nearly half of the children conceived yearly are female. What greater violence is there against women than to be killed in your mother’s womb?

It is thus disappointing that the government and Parliament actually continues to sanction and fund violence against women by financing the violence of abortion under the guise of health care. The government should not be surprised if New Zealand continues to be an increasingly violent society with the worst rate of family violence in the world

If we truly want to live in a society that respects women we must first protect mothers to be and their babies. The first step in achieving this is to ensure that our MP’s stand up against injustice and Jacinda Ardern’s attempts to decriminalise this awful and violent act.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Why is the Prime Minister avoiding responding to the Official Information Act?

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child of 20 weeks

Abortion by Dismemberment up to two weeks past this stage of child development is what the government proposes.

Right to Life is concerned that the Prime Minister,Jacinda Ardern has declined to answer important questions on public policy sent to her by our Society on 15 January 2019.

The principle questions asked were:-

  • Is it still your policy to retain a restriction on abortions imposed at 20 weeks gestation in the Crimes Act section 187A in your proposed legislation to decriminalise abortion?
  • Is it your policy to accept dismemberment abortions that permit an abortionist to tear the arms, legs and head off an unborn child?

The new coalition government has specifically made a commitment to “strengthen New Zealand’s democracy by increasing public participation, openness, and transparency around official information”. Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister has a duty to lead by example.

The Crimes Act stipulates that the cut – off point for abortions is 20 weeks, The cut-off point in the legislation being drafted by the Minister of Justice is 22 weeks. Mike Munroe, Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister’s Office advised on 24 January that he was referring our Official Information Request to the Minister of Justice, as he was responsible for “alternative approaches on abortion law.”

At the Newstalk ZB’s Leader’s Breakfast just prior to the election Jacinda Ardern made the following statement:-

“Yes I think abortion should come out of the Crimes Act. That does not mean for a moment that I am proposing what has been claimed, that you should be able to have on-demand abortion to birth. No that is absolutely not what I am saying. We of course must regulate… We have time periods already set out in the law and I am not proposing changes to that. I am proposing it comes out of the Crimes Act.”

This is an important public policy statement concerning abortion. The public have an absolute right to ask the Prime Minister, who believes that killing an unborn child should not be a crime, is relentlessly driving a change in the abortion law to remove abortion from the Crimes Act and to make abortion a “reproductive choice for women”. Will she support retaining the 20 week cut off as she has publicly stated?

The minister of Justice at the direction of the Prime Minister is to bring a bill to Parliament to adopt the Law Commission’s Model C. Under this Model, there would be no statutory test until 22 weeks of a pregnancy.  After 22 weeks, the health practitioner who intends to perform an abortion would need to be satisfied that the abortion is appropriate in the circumstances, having regard to the woman’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. Everyone knows what this means, – effectively abortion on demand up to birth.

Curia Market Research an independent pollster released in January 2018, polling of 1,013 persons. Just 9% support the current legal limit for an abortion of 20 weeks. Only 4% believe it should be later than 20 weeks, including up to birth. 50% think the time limit should be shorter than the current 20 weeks, and a further 36% were unsure.

The median choice of those who did choose a time limit was 15 weeks.
Significantly, 56% of women think the time limit should be less than the current 20 weeks. Incredibly, 53% of those who generally support abortion think the time
limit should be less than the current 20 weeks – 29% of abortion supporters say 10 weeks or less.There is increasing opposition in the United States to the violence and suffering imposed on defenceless unborn children by dismemberment abortions. There are now ten states that have outlawed this horrific violence on the defenceless.

The public have a right to know if the Prime Minister who is herself a loving mother of a young child supports protecting the unborn from this dismemberment violence.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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