CS & A Act

Media Release 8 August 2019

The Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, at the direction of the Prime Minister has produced the Abortion Legislation bill which rejects the findings of the Royal Commission and consolidates the government authorised and funded genocide against our own children.

The Abortion Legislation Bill represents man’s inhumanity towards women and is for the benefit of men who are not prepared to accept responsibility for the children they father. Women are the victims of the so called sexual revolution. A nation that kills its own children has no future.

The unborn child is the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family. Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, it should be received with the dignity due to the human person.

The Royal Commission on Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion in its report to Parliament in 1977 stated, upholding the status of the unborn child. “The unborn child, as one of the weakest, the most vulnerable and most defenceless forms of humanity, should receive protection. From a biological point of view there is no argument as to when life begins. Evidence was given to us by eminent scientists from all over the world. None of them suggested that human life begins at any other time than at conception”

The bill denies the irrefutable truth that the unborn child is a human being deserving of our respect and our protection. Having denied the humanity of the child it then denies the human rights of the child. Having achieved these objectives should this bill be passed it would no longer be a crime to kill the child.

The Labour led government has shamefully and faithfully followed the example of the Nazi regime that before it launched genocide against the Jews first legislated to deny the humanity of the Jews and then to deny their human rights.

If we cannot learn from history, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. The bill repeals the long title of the CS&A Act which directed that “abortions may be authorised only after full regard of the rights of the unborn child”

It is a serious crime to kill an innocent human being including unborn children, this is the foundation of the law and of medicine. It is a great injustice and a crime against humanity for the government to declare that it is not a crime to kill an unborn child. It is also a great injustice for the government to withdraw its protection of vulnerable women from the violence of abortion, women who are often exploited, coerced and abandoned.

Right to Life believes that this bill which seeks to establish a right to kill the unborn child for any reason will ultimately result in a duty to kill the child with forced abortions for pregnancies not authorised by the state.

Right to Life calls upon Parliament to protect women and their precious unborn by voting to defeat this unjust bill it at its first reading.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

The National President of ALRANZ, Terry Bellamak (pictured), an American woman from Arizona in the United States, today issued a media release on behalf of ALRANZ. The Association has an estimated national membership of about 100 members. Some students at Victoria University were planning a march and demonstration at Parliament on Tuesday 23 July, demanding abortion law “reform.”

Right to Life considers it hypocritical of ALRANZ to be demanding law reform when they actively encourage women on their web site to break the law and to smuggle dangerous and prohibited drugs into the country unlawfully in order to have an illegal chemical abortion which threaten’s the life and health of women.

Right to Life agrees with Ms Bellamak when she says that “everyone deserves the freedom to decide for themselves whether and when to become a parent.” That freedom is exercised before engaging in sexual intercourse. After conception they are parents. Human life begins at conception and every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of creation that deserves to be treated with respect and protection.

From the moment of conception the mother of the child is a mother and she has the privilege and duty to protect her unborn child.

It is a cause for great sadness to see a group of young women demonstrating for the “right ” to kill their children.

Tara O’Sulivan, co-president of the Victoria University Feminist Organisation claims that “abortion laws in New Zealand are currently a disgrace” because they don’t allow people to decide their own fate. Ms O’Sullivan believes that she is defending the rights of women. Right to Life asks why she does not defend the rights of women in the womb who are being denied their right to life and the right to be born.

Tamatha Paul president of the Victoria University Women’s Association claims that the “New Zealand law does not respect the bodily autonomy of pregnant people.” She is confused there are no pregnant people, only women have a uterus and only women can be pregnant. It is important to respect the bodily autonomy of women, it is also equally important to respect the rights of the child who has its own body that is independent of the mother.

Since the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act in 1977 (CS & A Act), there have been over 500,000 children violently killed in the womb. Nearly 250,000 of these children were female. The authentic feminist movement should be marching and demonstrating and demanding protection for these children many of whom would be attending University with you if they had been allowed to live.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life