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Safe Areas Bill Protects Abortion Victimises women

June 23, 2021 by Admin Leave a Comment

Media Release 23 June 2021

Right to Life believes that the hidden objective of the Safe Areas Amendment Bill of Louisa Wall is not to protect women but to protect abortion, the violent killing of the unborn and the war against women.

Women who seek an abortion are victims of the culture of death who have been denied the love and support that they deserve and desperately need. These women are not free, they are in chains imposed by the culture of death, as they are told that they have no choice but to accept the destruction of their child.

It is a culture that brooks no interference, does not compromise and that demands their complete subjection.

Every woman who courageously changes her mind and chooses life for her child is a defeat for the culture of death.

Right to Life believes that Louisa Wall is not so concerned about the welfare of women with child, what she is more concerned with is the efficient running of the abortion industry.

The bill seeks to achieve this objective by prohibiting the presence within 150 metres of any person praying, who would pose a threat to the planned legal execution of an unwanted unborn child. Their presence would be a criminal offence subject to arrest without a warrant. Those accused of this crime would be arraigned in the District Court and subject to a fine of up to $1,000.

It upholds the charade that the killing of the unborn child is “health care” and that the killing centre is a safe place for women.
It refuses to call abortion violence against the unborn, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family, evil and a crime against humanity.
It calls the woman seeking an abortion the ”protected person” when in fact she is the victim on whom the violence of abortion is to be inflicted.
That the abortion killing centre is a safe place for women.
That she needs protecting from those who are praying for her and her child and who would offer love and assistance to her to choose life for her child.
That the killing of her child is a private matter and of no concern to anyone else.
This bill pretends to express abhorrence of intimidation and harassment of women seeking an abortion when, if passed, it’s application may result in intimidation and harassment of law-abiding people, preventing them from exercising their rights of free speech, assembly, communication and religion.

The reality is that abortion is not health care, and that the abortion clinic, a killing centre, is not a safe place for either her or her child.

We have a duty to rescue those who are being dragged to their death, tarry not to come to their aid.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

No evidence of complaints of intimidation or harassment of women seeking abortion.

May 13, 2021 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 13 May 2021

Why is the government of Jacinda Ardern giving overwhelming support to the anti-life Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment bill, when there is no real evidence of intimidation or harassment of women seeking abortion? This bill claims to protect women from harassment and intimidation but in reality Right to Life believes that its objective is to intimidate and harass peaceful law abiding citizens praying for an end to the killing of the unborn, for their mothers and for the staff at these facilities, for they too are victims.

17 District Health Boards in New Zealand have advised Right to Life in response to an Official Information Act request that they have no record of either verbal or written complaints of intimidation or harassment from women accessing abortion at their facilities, nor did they have complaints from staff accessing abortion facilities.

These were the questions asked:-

I wish to request under the Official Information Act the following information:

• The number of written and oral complaints of harassment received from women accessing abortion at your facilities for the period 2019 to 31st January 2021.

• The nature of these complaints.

• Copies of those complaints with identifying details deleted.

• The number of written complaints of harassment received from staff entering and exiting your abortion facilities for the period 2019 to 31st January 2021.

There are twenty District Health Boards [DHBs] in New Zealand. Responses have been received from seventeen DHBs. All seventeen reveal that they had not received any verbal or written complaints.

These DHBs are:-

Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Capital & Coast, Hawkes Bay, Hutt Valley, Lakes, Manukau, Mid Central, Nelson Marlborough, Northland, South Canterbury, Southern, Taranaki, Waikato, Wairarapa and Waitemata, The Bay of Plenty response also includes the Tauranga Family Planning clinic.

The Mid Central response also includes the Women’s Health Clinic in Palmerston North. The Southern response also includes the Women’s Health Clinic in Invercargill.

This response is highly significant. The response covers a two year period during which an estimated 26.000 abortions were performed in DHB facilities or in facilities of private providers under contract to DHBs. DHBs log all verbal and written complaints. They advise that no verbal or written complaints were received from an estimated 26,000 women who had an abortion during the two years under review. There are also no record of any complaints being received from staff employed at abortion facilities during the same two year period under review.

It is mentioned that a response has not been received from the following DHBs, West Coast, Wanganui and Tairawhiti. The first two DHBs named do not perform abortions and refer all women seeking an abortion to another DHB.

It is contended that If there were no complaints either verbal or in writing from these women seeking an abortion, that there was in fact no intimidation or harassment of these women.

This information has been given to the Health select committee. Right to Life therefore requests that the Committee report this bill back to the House with a recommendation that the Safe Areas Amendment bill does not proceed on the grounds that there is no evidence of complaints of harassment and intimidation of women seeking abortion nor of staff.

Right to Life believes that this bill seeks to address a problem that does not exist.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Newshub Biased News No service to the Community

April 27, 2021 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 27 April 2021

It is disappointing that Newshub which has high standards allows misinformation and slander to be presented as factual news. The article “Controversy over abortion clinic safe zones heats up as Bill heads towards second reading” fails to provide the community with information on this important issue concerning human rights.

The community have a right to ask why comment was sought from the lady from Arizona, Terry Bellamak, who is the national president of Abortion Rights Aotearoa. This organisation has a national membership of approximately 25 members. Right to Life challenges her opinions which are ill informed and slanderous, she clearly does not represent the views of New Zealand women.

Terry Bellamak told Newshub ” Right now, people are not protected from harassment outside abortion clinics.”

This is totally untrue, the community should be aware that the Summary Offences Act provides protection against any person engaging in harassment or intimidation. There is absolutely no need for additional legislation to address a problem that does not exist except in the minds of Terry Bellamak and radical pro-abortionists who are determined to control and restrict our right to free speech, assembly and communication.

“People shouldn’t have to stand up to bullies in order to get healthcare. There’s no reason why people using reproductive health care should have to do that.”

This is slanderous and hate speech directed at peaceful and lawful men and women who motivated by love and compassion for women, who pray outside abortion clinics and are prepared to offer help to women who wish to choose life for their precious unborn child.

“Nobody knows the stories of the people walking in – not that anyone should judge anyone for healthcare decisions but it’s especially harmful and hurtful for people losing a wanted pregnancy to have people outside the clinic calling them a murderer.”

To accuse a person praying outside of an abortion clinic of calling women “murderer” is simply appalling. Women are the second victim of abortion. We would never ever call them murderer. This is a shocking and slanderous accusation to make and it is untrue. What evidence do you have, why was a complaint not made to the hospital authorities?

Newshub should act in accordance with the highest standards of the fourth estate as the protector of our Parliamentary democracy. They should inform our community that the Law Commission is opposed to this poorly drafted and unnecessary bill.

The Commission in October 2018 in its Ministerial briefing paper, Alternative approaches to Abortion, on safe zones, advised the Minister; “At this time the Commission does not see a strong case for this.”…”The Commission sought input from health professional bodies, abortion service providers and health practitioners about safe access zones. The majority felt that safe access zones were not needed.”

Why is this information being withheld from the community?

Ken Orr,

Right to Life

Please sign our petition calling for government to vote against the Safe Areas amendment to the CSA Act

April 5, 2021 by Philip 2 Comments

Right to Life has launched a petition to parliament, asking them to uphold our rights to free speech, free assembly and association, by rejecting the contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill by voting it down at its second reading in the House of Representatives.

Safe areas (safe zones) are defined as anywhere less than 150 metres from an abortion facility, where this law proposes that people will not be allowed to gather to express any opposition to abortion “in an intimidating manner”, or to contact or attempt to contact any women going into or out of an abortion clinic or facility, with the intention of preventing them from undergoing an abortion.

Demonstrations, or prayer vigils will therefore be prohibited by law, if they are held less than 150 metres from any clinic or hospital, if this law is passed.

The New Zealand Law Commission said “At this time the Commission does not see a strong case for this… (safe zones) The Commission sought input from health professional bodies, abortion service providers and health practitioners about safe access zones. The majority felt that safe access zones were not needed.”

The Commission was also mindful that safe zones would have to be considered for consistency with rights such as the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly & association in the Bill of Rights Act 1990.

Please sign our petition, with your name and e-mail address, by clicking on the link below, to go to the petitions page on the Parliament website. Click here for the petition, and tick the box for the privacy disclaimer, thank you for your support of our petition to Parliament on this important human rights issue.

If you experience difficulty in accessing the online petition, please use this link

https://www.parliament.nz/en/petitions/sign/PET_109483

Ken Orr

Spokesman

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Government of Jacinda Ardern supports War on Women and unborn children

March 10, 2021 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 10 March 2021.

Right to Life is disappointed that Parliament has shamefully passed the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion [Safe Areas] Amendment Bill of Louisa Wall by 100 to 15 votes at its first reading.

Right to Life believes that this bill is a disgraceful farce, it seeks to deal with a problem that does not exist. It also violates our right to free speech and assembly, guaranteed by the NZ Bill of Rights.

The real architects of this bill are the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, Hon Andrew Little. It is a subterfuge for the government to direct a back bench MP to present highly contentious government policy as a private members bill with the intention of preventing criticism of the government.

Right to Life believes that the bill has no place in our Parliament. There is absolutely no need for this legislation as there is no evidence of harassment or intimidation. There is, however, substantial evidence of women seeking help at abortion facilities from peaceful law abiding and caring citizens in their hour of need to choose life for their child. Why does the government wish to deprive women of the opportunity of being ministered to by women?

Why is the government ignoring the Law Commission, on safe zones?

The Law Commission advised ”At this time The Commission does not see a strong case for this.”

Right to Life believes that the citizens of New Zealand should be aware of the undisclosed agenda of the Prime Minister and her government. Right to Life believes that the government seeks:-

· To normalise the killing of the unborn, it is no longer a crime, it is now a “reproductive health service”

· To distract attention away from the violence inflicted on women and the unborn in the killing centres

· To ultimately prohibit any person praying outside a killing centre or offering assistance to a woman to choose life for her child

· To create the illusion that the killing centre and its environs are a safe area for women

It is a cruel deception to entice women to enter an abortion facility with the lie that it offers a safe haven.

It does not, it offers a cruel and violent death to the unborn and a lifetime of grief and pain for the woman.

The government funds the abortion industry, an essential and a core health service, it has unlimited funding and no waiting list. It employs doctors and nurses to kill the innocent and defenceless unborn New Zealanders and it is determined to prohibit and remove with the assistance of our Police force, those who oppose the killing and the violence inflicted on women and whose presence might deter women from not proceeding to an abortion that she has probably been coerced to seek.

Right to Life encourages defenders of women and their precious unborn to make a written submission to the Health Select Committee opposing this dangerous bill at its second reading.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Abortion Safe Zone Bill violates right to free speech, assembly and association

February 27, 2021 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 27 February 2021.

The Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion [Safe Areas] Amendment bill of Louisa Wall, Labour MP is a government bill masquerading as a private member’s bill. The bill violates the right to free speech, freedom of assembly and association. These human rights are guaranteed under the NZ Bill of Rights 1990. Protection of these rights is essential in a free and democratic society.

It is farcical for the Prime Minister to declare that the bill is a conscience issue and that Members of her government do not have to vote as directed. The community has not forgotten that so called safe zones sought around the killing centres for the unborn were included in the Abortion Legislation Bill.

Louisa Wall states: “At the time there was an administrative mishap in the House. What we did was translate that part of the Bill that wasn’t voted on that was subsequently lost into a Member’s Bill.” This anti-feminist bill faithfully represents the wishes of Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the bill and is government policy.

Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister will make it perfectly clear to her caucus by directing them on how they must vote. We expect the bill to receive massive obligatory support from the Labour caucus, with several Members being permitted to vote against the bill to sustain the charade that this was a Private Member’s bill.

Parliament and government have a serious responsibility to protect our human rights, these rights are enshrined in the Bill of Rights. The government of Jacinda Ardern is callously abdicating its responsibilities to the community by remaining shamefully silent and not defending our human rights protected by the Bill of Rights. Should we be surprised, when the government is prepared to deny the right to life of the unborn, the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family, that the government is also prepared to violate the right of free speech, assembly and association of the born?

The government is seeking to normalise the killing of the unborn by calling abortion a health service and that a killing centre is a safe place for the women denying that abortion is violence against women and their precious unborn.

Right to Life rejects the claim of Louisa Wall and the government that women are being harassed at abortion facilities by peaceful and law abiding citizens.

Right to Life requests that the government produce irrefutable evidence that women are being harassed at abortion facilities.

The government should also produce evidence that the Summary Offences Act is inadequate to deal with any civil disorders.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

RANZCOG betrays women and their defenceless unborn patients

February 16, 2021 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 16 February 2021

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are called to promote a culture of life and not to promote a culture of death. The College has cruelly betrayed and abandoned women and their precious unborn. This is the profession that has the great privilege and duty to be the noble defenders and guardians of the womb. It is their great privilege to encourage and help women to bring their child to birth. They know that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is their precious patient.

The College in a recent media release, “supports moves to allow safe areas to be established around abortion services.”

Right to Life challenges the claim made by the College’s Vice-President Dr John Tait in a recent media release:

“It is RANZCOG’s position that women have the right to access all sexual and reproductive health services with dignity and without fear of harassment or invasion of their privacy.”

“Safe areas are a vital way to safeguard the rights of women accessing services and protect medical staff.”

The College seeks to present an image of care for women:-

The College believes that the unborn child is not a human being until it is born,
It is not a patient and has no right to expect the protection of a member of the College.
It believes that it is not a crime to kill a defenceless unborn child, it is in fact a health service.
It supports the killing of the unborn child up to birth if a doctor considers it appropriate.
It seeks to present the false perception that the abortion clinic is a “safe” place and a sanctuary for women with child, it is neither safe for the child who is brutally poisoned, sucked from its mother’s womb or violently and painfully dismembered, or for the abandoned mother who is seriously wounded.

Right to Life encourages the Royal College to uphold the Fifth Commandment of God,” Thou shalt not kill.”

The College supports abortion as the “reproductive health service” which resulted in the killing of 12,857 children before birth in New Zealand in 2018. This is an estimated one in five pregnancies ending in the violent killing of many of their defenceless unborn patients.

Dr Tait wants us to believe, with the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, that abortion is no longer a crime but a reproductive health service. Commendably he seeks to protect the dignity of women.

Where is women’s dignity in having her womb violently invaded and her precious child violently killed by a doctor?

Dr Tait seeks to protect women from harassment and invasion of their privacy, yet he and his colleagues refuse to recognise that abortion is harassment and a violent and unprovoked assault on a woman with the specific intention of killing her child. This is the ultimate harassment of a woman and the invasion of her privacy.

The College seeks to distract attention away from the violence that is inflicted on women and their child inside the killing centre, by pretending that peaceful and caring people who lawfully pray outside abortion clinics are a threat to women.

They are not a threat to women, as they are there to offer love, compassion and help to coerced and abandoned women in their hour of need.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life