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Right to Life Supports Children’s Commissioner becoming Advocate for the Unborn Child

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Media Release 10 Feb 2022

Right to Life is opposed to the government’s objective of eliminating the independent voice of the Children’s Commissioner who is a strong advocate for children on child poverty, abuse and children in care. The Commissioner has the right without invitation to report to the Prime Minister on these important issues.

 The most dangerous place for a child today is not in a damp home but in its mother’s womb. Right to Life not only supports the retention of the Children’s Commissioner but believes that the Commissioner should also be an advocate for unborn children.

The government’s intention is to replace the independent Commissioner responsible to Parliament and delegate the duties of the Commissioner to a new government appointed Children & Young Peoples Commission, an independent Crown entity. (No prizes for guessing what ‘government appointed’ would mean).

The Children’s Commissioner has for thirty years been a strong advocate for our children in challenging government on child abuse, child poverty and children in care. These are issues that continue to impose suffering on our children.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. It is important for our children that we retain the Children’s Commissioner who has the statutory authority to approach the Prime Minister without invitation to be a strong advocate for our children faced with child poverty, child abuse and those in care.

The current Children’s Commissioner, Judge Francis Eivers, is opposed to eliminating the office of Children’s Commissioner believing that our children need an independent advocate.

Dr Russell Wills, previously Children’s Commisioner,  2011 -2016, agrees and believes that the Commisioner provides an independent check on the government which would be lost if the Commissioner’s role was incorporated into government.

The most dangerous place for a child today is in its mother’s womb. Every year more than 13,000 unborn children unique and unrepeatable miracles of God’s creation are taken to hospitals and clinics to be poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or violently dismembered in abortions up to birth, that are sanctioned and funded by the government.

How can the government claim to care about child abuse, child poverty and children in care when they refuse to recognise that child abuse commences in the womb and the greatest and most devastating poverty that can be inflicted on a defenceless and innocent child is to be cruelly deprived of its life before it is born.

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction when she and her government are going to respond to the terrified silent scream of our precious unborn, victims of appalling child abuse and child poverty, as they are deprived of their right to life. Their mothers often abandoned and coerced are the second victims of abortion. The government’s nine official measures for measuring the reduction of child poverty in New Zealand are meaningless and a distraction while it continues to allow the killing of nearly one in five children before they are born.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Is the Government really serious about child poverty in New Zealand?

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Media Release 22 May 2021

The Labour government’s 2021 “wellbeing budget” is an historic budget, for never before has a government budgeted for more money for the killing of New Zealanders under the guise of health care.  

Right to Life believes that those who kill the unborn and the very sick do not have a right to govern or to sit in our Parliament. The first duty of the state is to uphold the sanctity of life and protect the life of every human being from conception till natural death.

Right to Life also believes that the community should be aware that hidden in the “wellbeing budget” is continuing funding for the killing of the unborn as an essential service and for the terminally ill with assisted suicide and euthanasia.

The government is encouraging us to believe that it is concerned for children living in poverty. Right to Life commends the government for increasing benefits, with the laudable objective of lifting up to 33,000 children out of poverty but asks, how can you really be concerned about children when you callously fund, in the same budget, for the state funded killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children?

Why does the government not realise that the ultimate child poverty is to be deprived of your life when you are unborn?

Is it not a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity for the government to authorise and fund the violent killing of our own children?

The Hon. Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance, has allocated to the Minister of Health, Hon Andrew Little :-

  • $5 million for the “purchase of services” for the killing of the unborn and for transfer of oversight and monitoring from Justice to Health.
  • $11 million for the implementation of assisted suicide and euthanasia and for health sector info systems and advice.
  • Considerable funding will also be provided to the new national Maori Health authority to ensure that Maori have full access to abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

This is in addition to the more than $13 million expended on the killing of unborn children in NZ by abortion.

It is disappointing that the news media are applauding the government  for this budget which promotes a culture of death, under the guise of a culture of life.

The Prime Minister stated on 12 September 2020:-

“I’ve made no secret of the fact that I want New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child. It’s an aspiration I’ve held for a long time. It’s one of the reasons I entered politics back in 2008.” 

Right to Life asks how can New Zealand be the best place in the world when the government approves and supports the funding of the killing each year of more than 13,000 unborn New Zealand children, who are violently poisoned, sucked from their mother’s wombs or brutally and painfully dismembered?

Ken Orr

Spokesperson

Right to Life

Is the government’s climate crisis emergency a distraction?

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Media Release 2 December 2020

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, why she is ignoring the crisis of child poverty and the crisis of the state funded and sanctioned killing of our unborn children?

It is a national tragedy that one in five of our children live in income poverty and a crime against humanity that one in five children are killed before they are born. Child poverty begins in the womb, the most appalling poverty is to be deprived of your life. Right to Life believes that these crises have been created by this government and they can be solved by our government.

Every day an estimated 36 defenceless unborn children are taken to hospitals and clinics to be poisoned, violently dismembered and suctioned out of their mother’s wombs. This violence against women and their precious unborn children is sanctioned by the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, the creation of the Prime Minister. How can you claim to care for children when you deny that these children are human beings, endowed by their Creator with a right to life? How can you claim that the reason you entered politics was children? What excuse do you offer these children whose bloodied and broken bodies are disposed of at the local tip as medical waste?

There are 150,000 children, 13.4%, living in material hardship in New Zealand, with insufficient food, clothing and warm housing. There are also  235,400 children, 20.8%, living in low income families. The Prime Minister, who is also the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction, has claimed that she wants New Zealand to be a great place for a child to grow up in.

In May 2019, the government’s Welfare Expert Advisory Group recommended an immediate increase in benefits of up to 47 % to alleviate child poverty. Why has the government refused to do this?

The government has unlimited money to fund the killing of children in the womb as an essential or core health service but has no money to feed hungry children or provide shoes and clothing for the children of poverty stricken solo mothers.

UNICEF in a report this year placed New Zealand among developed countries at 34th out of 41 for child wellbeing. We can do better for our children both born and unborn. If we do not have respect for the child in the womb we will not have respect for born children.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

UNICEF’s Damning Report on Child Welfare in NZ

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The UNICEF report for 2020 places New Zealand as 35th out of the 41 countries in the OECD as the worst place to be a child. Sadly UNICEF is silent on the state funded genocide against our own unborn children.

Right to Life believes that this report it is an indictment on both the Labour led government and the previous National government. The Prime Minster, as the architect of the infamous Abortion Legislation Act 2020 emphatically denies that the unborn are “one of us” and the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family. She has to accept responsibility for scaling up the genocidal war on our unborn children. She is directly responsible for expanding the war to include the killing of our unborn up to birth.

While our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who is also the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction, appears to have a passionate commitment to reduce child poverty in New Zealand. she continues to target our unborn children, who are the most vulnerable children of all. The most appalling poverty that can be inflicted on a child is to deprive it of its life while still in the womb.

She stated in an opinion article in March 2019 that it was her objective to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. Right to Life asks, how can New Zealand be the best place to be a child when one in five children is violently killed before it is born? She also said, “how vital the first 1,000 days of a child’s life are to their development and wellbeing.” How can you deny that during the first 252 days of her life that a child in the womb is not a child at all?

Jacinda Ardern also stated, “One of our goals and aspirations as a Government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child, but we can always do more. The way we treat children, says so much about what kind of country we are.”

Right to Life agrees and asks, what sort of country are we when the government authorises and funds the violent killing of an average of 35 children every day? Since she became Prime Minister nearly 39,000 innocent and defenceless children have been violently killed in abject poverty in their mother’s womb. This is a crime against humanity and a burden on the conscience of the nation. This is the tragic legacy that she inherited from the previous National government.

Why does the Prime Minister discriminate against our unborn children, and deny the reality that at the moment of conception we have a new human being, a child, that is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

The Prime Minister in 2018, introduced the Child Poverty Reduction bill which had as its objective to encourage a focus on child poverty reduction and provide a commitment by Government to address child well-being. The bill was passed in December 2018. There is no provision in this Act to recognise the poverty inflicted on unborn children.

It is the duty of government not only to reduce child poverty but to prohibit the killing of children both born and unborn. The Prime Minister however, who believes that smacking a child is a crime, believes that violently killing an unborn child  is not a crime and is a “reproductive choice for women”.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Child Poverty Begins in the Womb

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Media Release Monday 8th July 2019

Why is the Prime Minister ignoring the poverty of children in the womb?
Since she became Prime Minister nearly 19,000 innocent and defenceless children have been violently killed in their mother’s womb.

Right to Life commends the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern who is also the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction for her passionate commitment to reduce child poverty in New Zealand. Why then is she ignoring the utter poverty of unwanted unborn children, our most vulnerable children?

The Prime Minister stated in an opinion article that she wrote for Children’s Day 3rd March 2019, “one of our goals and aspirations as a Government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child, but we can always do more. The way we treat children, says so much about what kind of country we are.”

Right to Life agrees and asks then what sort of country are we when the government authorises and funds the violent killing of an average of 35 children every day? Why too does the Prime Minister discriminate against our unborn children the most vulnerable of our children? Human life begins at conception; at the moment of conception, a new human being, a child, the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family is created. That child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

Why does the Prime Minister not recognise that the greatest poverty that could be inflicted on a child is to be violently deprived of life before it is born?  This is a crime against humanity and a burden on the conscience of the nation.

The Prime Minister in 2018 introduced the Child Poverty Reduction bill which had as its objective to encourage a focus on child poverty reduction and provide a commitment by Government to address child well-being. The bill was passed in December 2018. There is no provision in this Act to recognise the poverty inflicted on unborn children.

It is the duty of government not only to reduce child poverty but to prohibit the killing of children both born and unborn.The Prime Minister however, who believes that smacking a child is a crime, believes that killing an unborn child should not be a crime and should be a “reproductive choice for women”. It is her intention to facilitate the killing of children before birth by removing “unwanted” unborn children from the protection of the Crimes Act. Under her proposal they will be able to be killed with impunity under the Health Act as a “reproductive health service”.

Right to Life requests that the Prime Minister ceases discriminating against our unborn children and revokes her plan to decriminalise the killing of the unborn.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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