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ANZAC day – Lest we forget

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     Media Release 25 April 2021

Mother and protector of the nation’s unborn?

We must never forget the supreme sacrifice that our service men and women made in order that future generations may live in freedom and enjoy their inalienable right to life. Throughout our nation there are monuments commemorating their sacrifice, which today we remember. Since the South African war a total of 96,241 men and women have given their lives in wars.

It is an illusion however, that we are now living in peace and we are free from war. Today we are engaged in another bloody war, not with a foreign aggressor but in a war against a new enemy, our own children. Why do we feel threatened by our own children in the womb, who are the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family? Pregnancy is not a disease, nor an enemy, so we must ask why has the womb become a battleground as violent as that at the battle for Gallipoli?

Since the passing of the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act in 1977, more than 550,000 children have been killed in the womb in New Zealand, so their mothers too are casualties of this undeclared war.

These children were deemed to be unwanted, of little worth. They are unnamed, worthy only of being a number in our abortion statistics. No tombstone marks their last resting place. Their mortal remains are deemed to be medical waste, to be incinerated in the same callous manner as the disposal of the Jews after their slaughter at Nazi extermination camps during the Second World War.

The Prime Minister and her government have accelerated this war against our own children. Jacinda Ardern was the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act, which has imposed on the unborn, the status of enemy and a threat to security.  Who may now be killed up to 20 weeks for any reason and up to birth, if two medical practitioners consider this is ‘appropriate’. It is now no longer a crime to kill an unborn child, as in the words of the Hon Andrew Little, the unborn child is not a human being, it has no right to life until it is born.

Right to Life believes that In effect this was nothing other than a deliberate and blatant ploy to decriminalise the murder of our most vulnerable and to coerce women into believing that killing their unborn children is not only ‘healthcare’, but that to do so is their ‘right’.

Peace begins in the womb. New Zealand will continue to grow in violence and will never know true peace, nor can we claim to be a just society, while we continue to make war against our own children and support a referendum that would allow the state to empower medical profession to remove the life of their patients or assist in their suicide.

The government’s proposals are an affront to the sacrifices made by brave New Zealand men and women who gave their lives to defend and protect all New Zealanders from conception till natural death.

Our community would greatly honour the sacrifices made by our troops in war by repealing the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and the End of Life Choice Act 2019.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Is the Prime Minister Serious about Opposing Child Abuse?

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The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is to be commended for deploring the appalling violence inflicted on a defenceless four year old boy in Flaxmere, Hastings. “I know we are a country that wants all our children to live free from violence – but that is going to continue to take our ongoing effort and commitment,” Ardern said.

Prime Minister how can you say in seriousness, that you want all of our children to live free from violence when you yourself are promoting violence against our most vulnerable children by decriminalising abortion and saying that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child. The life of every child commences at conception, a simply and indisputable biological fact. The most dangerous place for a child today is in its mother’s womb. Why are you concerned only with violence against born children?

The worst violence that can be inflicted on a defenceless child is to be violently dismembered in its mother’s womb by a doctor who is committed to his destruction. How can you say that you are opposed to violence against children who are born but refuse to acknowledge that the violent dismemberment of a child in the womb is violence, in fact you are calling this appalling violence, health care.

The Hon Tracey Martin, Minister for Children in response to the Hasting’s vicious assault stated, “This violence against our children is what we need to address as a country and what I’m trying to address as Minister.“The Minister is opposed to violence against the born child but is not opposed to violence against the defenceless unborn. The Minister has to accept responsibility for allowing the Abortion Legislation Bill being signed off by cabinet and presented to Parliament in August 2019. She could have killed this Bill dead if she had wanted to. It should be known that the Minister believes that the killing of an unborn child is not a crime and is “a reproductive choice for women”.

During the years 2006 to 2016 a total of 61 children died from neglect and maltreatment in New Zealand. Since the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act was passed in 1977 more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless children have been murdered in their mother’s womb. Right to Life will never stop exposing this as a crime against humanity, no matter if this government declares that this killing is ‘health care’.

The Prime Minister seeks re-election for a further three years. It is with sadness and horror that we expect that during a further term of three years that the Prime Minister holds office more than 40,000 children in the womb will be cruelly murdered as a health service. This with the approval of her government and funded by funds set aside in her government’s budget specifically for this purpose.

New Zealanders need to know that Jacinda Ardern is the prime driver of removing existing protections for our unborn children through a bill that she is directly responsible for, the dreadful Abortion Legislation Bill.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Government’s Abortion Law – Introducing Slavery

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Media Release 8 February 2020

By seeking to decriminalise abortion the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and her government will be introducing slavery for our unborn. This is the ultimate tyranny of the powerful over the defenceless unborn. If she succeeds in removing the killing of the unborn from the Crimes Act she will achieve the following objectives:-

• Deny the humanity of the unborn child

• Deny the child’s inalienable God given right to life

• Grant property rights to the mother over her child

• Declare that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child

• Grant the “right” of the mother to terminate the life of her child

Right to Life calls on Parliament to defeat the appalling anti-life and anti-women Abortion Legislation Bill at its second reading. Those who promote abortion today share the same philosophy as those who supported the ownership of slaves in the United States in the nineteenth century. Everyone who supported slavery was free, everyone who supports abortion is born. Slavery tore American society apart and ended with a civil war. Likewise abortion is a burden on the conscience of this nation, it will only be healed with the abolition of abortion.

• Slave owners claimed that Negroes were not human beings and had no rights. Abortion supporters claim that unborn children are not human beings and do not have a right to life.

• Slave owners claimed that they had a human right to own slaves. Supporters of abortion claim that abortion is a human right.

• Slave owners claimed that slaves were “property and that they could do with them as they wished.” Abortion advocates claim that unborn children are the property of the mother and that it is her choice whether she has a live baby or a dead baby.

• Slave owners claimed that they had a human right to choose to own slaves. Abortion supporters claim that they have a human right to choose abortion.

• Slave owners claimed that owning slaves was for the good of the slaves as they were fed and clothed. Abortion promoters claim that killing a child in the womb is a kindness; it is unkind to bring a child into the world who is “unwanted” or who has a disability.

Both slavery and abortion are intrinsically evil; they are an abomination and represent the tyranny of the strong over the weak. The movement for the abolition of slavery, did not compromise, it was the total abolition of slavery, nothing less, likewise the pro-life movement must not compromise, and the goal is the total abolition of the murder of the innocent.

Mankind has always known that to deny the rights of a group of human beings, you must first deny their humanity. Slave owners claimed that Negro slaves were not human beings and the United States Supreme Court in the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, declared that Negro slaves were not human beings and only became persons when they were released from slavery. It was our own Court of Appeal in the infamous judgement of 2011, in the case of Right to Life versus the Abortion Supervisory Committee, that declared that, “the unborn child is not a human being and has no right to life. It only became a human being when it was born.” A cruel legal fiction.

The arguments of the slave owners are all too familiar, “It is my right to choose to own slaves, if you are opposed to slavery, don’t own them.” Those who are opposed to slavery were condemned as being anti -choice, endeavouring to impose their morals on others and are infringing on my human rights. The pro-choice position overlooks the rights of the victim, the slave had no right to choose freedom over slavery and the unborn child has no right to choose life over being killed.

The pro-life movement should be supremely confident that the day will come when like the abolition of slavery movement, the murder of the unborn will be outlawed and the war on women stopped. Right to Life calls on the community to join with it in working for the total abolition of abortion.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Right to Life Presents Petition Opposing Abortion Decriminalisation

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Right to Life Petition opposing Decriminalisation of Abortion Presented to MP’s.

A national petition, signed by 15,407 concerned citizens opposing the decriminalisation of abortion was presented at a short ceremony at Parliament at 12.30 pm on Wednesday 20th November. It is believed to be the largest petition from residents of New Zealand to our Parliament on the issue of abortion. The petition organised by Right to Life was presented to Simon O’Connor MP by Fleur Utting and Philip Creed vice President of RTL.

The people attending were Philip Creed, Fleur Utting, Mary Pollard, Monica Devine and  Martin Frauenstein. The MPs present were Simon O’Connor, Alfred Ngaro, Chris Penk, Paulo Garcia and  Hariata Hipango,

Below is a transcript of the presentation made by Vice President Philip Creed to the MP’s.

Thank you for being here today to receive us. Right to Life applauds you for your courageous defence of life in opposing the Abortion Legislation Bill and the End of Life Choice Bill. Be assured that you have our total support in defending life.

We all have a duty to defend life. We are here today to present a petition to our Parliament to maintain the protection of the Crimes Act for women and for our precious unborn children. We recognise that every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation that is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life. May our Parliament respond to our petition to protect women and the unborn from the violence of abortion.

We believe that this is the largest petition ever made by residents of New Zealand to Parliament on the issue of abortion, on the care of women and concerning the killing of the unborn child.

It is our privilege today to present to you a petition signed by 15,407 concerned citizens opposing the decriminalisation of abortion and supporting protection for women and the unborn provided by the Crimes Act.

This petition was organised by Right to Life. This petition defends our inalienable  right to life, the foundation of our human rights. Since 1856 the Crimes Act, section 182, Killing unborn child, has recognised that the killing of an innocent and defenceless unborn child is a serious crime. This petition is opposed to abortion being taken out of the Crimes Act and made “a reproductive choice for women.”

The proposal of the Prime Minister to decriminalise abortion is an unprecedented attack on the sanctity of life of the unborn child. An attack on the right to life of the unborn is an attack on the right to life of us all. It is a denial that the unborn child is a human being endowed at conception with human rights. It is a rejection of the responsibility of the State to protect the lives of all New Zealanders from conception to natural death. Under the government’s proposal the child is to be declared the property of the mother. This is slavery and no person has the right to claim ownership of another person. If today Parliament can declare that the unborn child is not a human being, tomorrow Parliament may declare that other vulnerable human beings, those with dementia and Alzheimer’s are no longer human beings and protection for the lives such persons may be removed from the Crimes Act and killed and declared a health service.
The government have no mandate to declare that the unborn are not human beings and that they have no right to have their lives protected by the State.

in September Right to life employed Curia Marketing Services to conduct a survey.

One question asked when the unborn child became a human being

  • 65% said before birth.
  • 25 % said at conception,
  • 14 % said at implantation
  •  26 % said between implantation and birth.

A second question asked when should the human rights of the unborn child be protected by New Zealand law

  • 17 % believed at conception,
  • 10 % at implantation
  • 28 % between implantation and birth.

This shows 55% of New Zealanders believe that the unborn child’s right to life should be protected at some stage before birth.

Why then is our governments removing instead of ensuring protection for our precious unborn?

Has NZ First Cruelly Betrayed Women and Our Unborn?

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Media Release 4th August 2019

The policy of NZ First on abortion was made abundantly clear by the Rt. Hon. Winston Peters at the Family First Conference in Auckland in 2014 . When interviewed by Bob McCoskrie he stated that “abortions should be legal, safe and rare”. He was asked if he supported the Green’s policy of decriminalising abortion. He replied “no we don’t” He said that he believed that life began at conception and that the child had a right to life.

Why the current turn around?

It is reported in the media that Martin is working with the Minister of Justice to have the government’s bill to decriminalise abortion reconciled with NZ First party policy. The Hon. Tracey Martin stated recently during a Radio New Zealand interview that it was the party’s overriding principle to keep abortion “safe legal and rare.” If NZ First’s policy is to oppose the decriminalisation of abortion, why then are they negotiating to support a bill that will decriminalise abortion, take abortion out of the Crimes Act, make it a simply health matter and make it no longer a crime to kill a child before it is born?

Right to Life asks the Minister of Children, the Hon. Tracey Martin, if the party has negotiated a secret deal with the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister to give the support of NZ First for a government bill to decriminalise abortion.

Right to Life believes that many people voted for NZ First at the 2017 general election because they sincerely believed that if they were elected to Parliament they would vigorously oppose the anti- life agenda of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Why are they not doing that? Her agenda is to decriminalise the killing of the unborn, make it no longer a crime to kill a child before birth and make the killing of the unborn “a reproductive choice for women.”

Right to Life asks the Hon. Tracey Martin; If you do a deal with the Prime Minister do you expect to receive their support at the election in 2020?

Right to Life freely acknowledges that Tracey Martin sincerely desires to do what is best for women and our precious unborn, but we must ask her if she realises that the Prime Minister seeks to dehumanise the unborn, declare that they are not human beings endowed with a right to life, seeks to make it no longer a crime to kill them, to make them property of the mother and give any mother the ‘right’ to kill her own children before birth for any reason?

Surely it is absolutely inconceivable that NZ First would now be secretly negotiating with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice to betray the women of New Zealand and our precious unborn.

The fundamental issue is not abortion but the status of the unborn child. If Parliament denies the humanity of the unborn child and moves the child from under the protection of the Crimes Act sections 182 and 183, allowing the killing of the child as a ‘health service’, we will have crossed a very dangerous line and be setting a very important precedent. A future Parliament could decide that those with dementia and Alzheimer’s are no longer human beings and may be killed as a health service. Will you be next?

In the interest of women and future generations Right to Life urges Tracey Martin to use her influence to maintain the status of the unborn child as the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family deserving of our respect and the continued protection of the Crimes Act.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Justice Demands a Referendum to Recognise Right to Life of Our Unborn Children

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Media Release July 27th 2019

Right to Life requests that the Labour led government conduct a binding referendum, the question being:- “Do you recognise the unborn child from implantation as being a human being endowed by its Creator with human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life?” This is the justice issue of our era.

Right to Life requests that our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern as a woman and as a mother lead by example, to give legal recognition to the unborn child as a human being from implantation endowed with human rights, the foundation right being the right to life.

The Minister of Justice in a response of the 16th March to an Official Information Act request from Right to Life confirmed that the government supported the born alive law contained in Section 159 of the Crimes Act 1961, that an unborn child does not become a human being until it is born. The section states that the born alive law was “for the purposes of the Crimes Act”. It was never the intention of Parliament to deny the humanity of the unborn child. This whole section is a legal fiction intended to differentiate between homicide and the killing of an unborn child.

A poll conducted by AC Nielsen in 2004 on behalf of Right to Life found considerable support for recognising the humanity of the unborn child, The poll of 1000 persons found that 36% believed that the unborn child became a human being at conception, 14% at the time of implantation and 28 % at a point between implantation and birth. There were therefore a total of 78% who believed that the unborn child was a human being before birth. And a poll of a 1,000 persons conducted by Curia Market Research in April 2019 on behalf of Family First found 47 % believed that the human rights  of the unborn child should be legally protected from about six weeks once a heartbeat can be detected. Instead of following it’s own agenda, why does the government not amend the law to reflect public opinion?

There are a small number of well organised persons, headed by Jacinda Ardern, that are resisting the legal recognition of the unborn child’s right to life. Leading the charge are the anti-feminist movement led by, the Family Planning Association, the Green Party, and the radical left of the Labour Party, all of whom are strident advocates for the killing of our innocent and defenceless unborn.

It is disappointing that our government has $2.2 million to conduct a referendum on legalising the personal use of cannabis, an issue that is a threat to the lives and health of New Zealanders. It is shameful that the government gives priority to legalising the smoking of cannabis but has no interest in promoting the right to life of our unborn. New Zealand cannot be considered a just society until the New Zealand bill of Rights protects the human rights of every New Zealander from conception to natural death.

We can not state more clearly that Jacinda Ardern is the prime driver for the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. The Prime Minister, does not recognise the humanity of the unborn child, nor its right to life. Right to Life believes that it is her belief that the child is the property of the mother. It is her wish that abortion be taken out of the Crimes Act and treated as a health issue. She believes that the killing of an unborn child should not be a crime, but a human right. She believes the killing of an unborn child should be treated as a “reproductive choice for women”.

This is astounding as the Prime Minister on the 19 January 2018 was jubilant in announcing that “she was pregnant with her first child”. She has felt her baby kick, she has heard its heart beat and watched in awe at scans showing the wondrous miracle of creation developing in her womb, truly a beautiful baby and a unique and unrepeatable miracle of creation endowed with a right to life. How then can she be in denial about the humanity of the unborn child and its right to life?

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Why is Jacinda Ardern Seeking to Impose Capital Punishment on the Unborn as a Reproductive Health Choice for Women?

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The method of execution in New Zealand of murderers under capital punishment prior to 1961 was by hanging, relatively quick. However the most common method of execution for the unborn these days is by surgical dismemberment, which entails violently and painfully tearing off the arms, legs and head off the victim. The bodies of the accused are then treated as “medical waste” and are disposed of at the local land fill.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is passionate and driven in her desire to reinforce capital punishment not for brutal and violent rapists and murderers, but for the defenceless and innocent unborn who have been found guilty of a more serious crime, the crime of being “unwanted”. Capital punishment is being reaffirmed and reformed by taking abortion out of the Crimes Act and making Capital punishment for the unborn, health care and “a reproductive choice for women”.

The Prime Minister supports the abolition of Capital punishment for rapists and murderers; why then is she determined to retain and extend Capital punishment for the unborn who are the most innocent and defenceless members of our human family.

Right to Life is determined that should the Labour led government  present an abortion bill to Parliament, we will ensure that the state funded execution of our children will be a major issue at the next general election.

The Prime Minister confirmed her opposition to the death penalty in the media on 2 April 2019. “New Zealand has always stood against the death penalty, in all its forms, for any reason”. The government is a leading voice in the United Nations for the abolition of Capital Punishment. Excuse me Prime Minister, why then are you personally promoting, funding and indeed driving the legislation which will effectively remove all protections for the unborn and result in the ongoing execution every year of more than 12,000 innocent children?

Family Planning and other vocal advocates for capital punishment for the unborn insist that the process be accessible and that the sentence be carried out without delay, all the while disguising this mass execution as “a reproductive health choice for women” and as health care. Right to Life is determined to oppose this Labour government led genocide.


Capital punishment for murder was removed from the statute books in 1961. There was a total of 85 convicted criminals executed in New Zealand between 1842 and 1957. New Zealand still retains the death penalty for its unborn children. Since 1977, the government has presided over the execution and killing of more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children who were found guilty of being “unwanted.” Being an unwanted unborn child in New Zealand effectively, is more often than not, a capital offence and means that, more than likely you will be subject to the death penalty.

For the unborn being unwanted is a serious crime, punishable by death. The sentence is imposed by doctors appointed by the Abortion Supervisory Committee, the trial is brief, no witnesses are called in the defence of the child and the sentence of death is carried out as quickly as possible; in a Public Hospital. The executions are authorised and funded by the government.

The government continues to delude itself in believing that it has an admirable and exemplary human rights record. The truth is that the government’s hands are covered in the blood of our aborted children and the consciences of our politicians must share in the guilt for this bloodshed and for the grief and sorrow inflicted on the poor mothers, the second victims of abortion.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Letter to Winston Peters and NZ First MP’s

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11 July 2019

Rt. Hon. Winston Peters MP,

Dear Minister,

I am writing to you in defence of our precious unborn and their mothers who are under an unprecedented attack.

The State has a serious duty to protect the lives of all members of the human family. The option preferred by the Minister of Justice would remove this protection.  It is contended that in upholding your commendable policy opposing the decriminalisation of abortion and acting in the best interests of the unborn and their mothers, NZ First should refrain from supporting this bill through cabinet and oppose the bill at its first and any subsequent readings. Any bill that seeks to make the killing of the defenceless unborn “a reproductive health service” represents an unprecedented attack on the sanctity of life.  

Right to Life commends NZ First for its defence of the lives of our precious unborn and their mothers. We are aware that NZ First is the only party in Parliament that has a policy to oppose the decriminalisation of abortion. I recall that at the Family First Conference in Auckland in 2014 when you were interviewed by Bob McCoskrie, you stated that “abortions should be legal, safe and rare”. You were asked if you supported the Green’s policy of decriminalising abortion, you replied “no we don’t”. You then said that you believed that life began at conception and that the child had a right to life.

It is reported in the media that your caucus is committed to supporting a bill through cabinet that would remove the killing of the unborn by abortion from the Crimes Act and make the killing of the unborn “a reproductive choice for women”. It is the wish of the Prime Minister to remove the stigma associated with the killing of the unborn and to make the killing of the child no longer a crime, but a health service.

The sanctity of life of the unborn and its right to life are protected under the Crimes Act section 182 Killing unborn child and section 183 Procuring abortion by any means. It is a serious crime to kill a child in the womb. Every- one who violates these sections is liable to imprisonment for up to 14 years. This legal protection has been there since 1856, we change it at our peril. 

The Royal Commission in its report to Parliament in 1977 said, on 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.” In rejecting the argument that some degree of development should be reached before the unborn child be accorded status, the Commission said, “If some stage of physical or mental development has to be accepted as indicating whether or not human life is in being, so a stage may be reached at the other end of life where a person who has become senile or has lost consciousness may be disposed of.”

The unborn child is the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family and needs special legal protection. Every day in New Zealand nearly thirty-five children in the womb are violently destroyed and their mothers the second victim of abortion, are left with a life time of grief and sorrow. Our women deserve better.

A poll of a 1,000 respondents conducted by Curia Market Research on behalf of Family First in December 2017, revealed that 96% of NZ First voters were opposed to sex selection abortions. That 38% were opposed to abortions being performed after 15 weeks and a further 10 % were opposed to abortions being done at all. 73 % were opposed to abortions and wanted them reduced.

If we as a society deny the humanity of the unborn, then logically we will one day deny the humanity of those who are suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s. The denial of the humanity and right to life of the unborn is a threat to the right to life of every citizen.

The decriminalisation of abortion will;

  • Allow for sex selection abortions, which are currently unlawful.
  • Allow for abortion up to birth for babies with a disabiliy including Down Syndrome.
  • Not protect women seeking an abortion because they are subject to violence and coercion.

In conclusion, Right to Life requests that you withdraw support for the decriminalisation of abortion and that you use your influence to have the current unlawful abortion on demand stopped. Please promote adoption as a loving option.

Thank you for all that you are doing to defend life, protecting women from the violence of abortion and promoting the common good.

Yours sincerely,

Ken Orr

Secretary.

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

NZ First Callously Betrays Women and the Unborn

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Media Release 4th May 2019


Right to Life is disappointed that NZ First has given its approval, within the closed doors of cabinet, to the decriminalisation of abortion and support to Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little’s plans to remove the protection afforded the unborn child through the Crimes Act. New Zealand First had the opporunity to protect women and the unborn in this country but have failed.

At the Family First Conference in Auckland in 2014 when interviewed by Bob McCoskrie, he stated that “abortions should be legal, safe and rare”. He was asked if he supported the Green’s policy of decriminalising abortion. He replied “no we don’t”. He then said that he believed that life began at conception and that the child had a right to life. Why has Winston Peters clearly changed his position on his defence of women and the right to life of the unborn child?

Right to Life believes that this it is an act of treason and political self-interest that NZ First is prepared to sacrifice our own women and unborn children for selfish political advantage. This will be recorded in the annals of our nation as a day of unprecedented shame and betrayal.

Winston Peters now presumably supports Model C which is preferred by the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little. Under Model C, there would be no statutory test until 22 weeks of a pregnancy. There is no recognition of the child’s right to life or of the duty of the State to protect the lives of its future citizens. “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.” This model provides abortion for any reason at all up to 22 weeks. Right to Life believes that this model effectively provides abortion on demand up to birth.


The Royal Commission in its report to Parliament in 1977 said, on 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 murder of the unborn should never be legal. Abortions are never safe, at least one patient the unborn child, dies, violently, dismembered limb from limb in its mother’s womb in every abortion. It is not rare, as Winston Peters said, in referring with concern to the more than 14,000 abortions reported in 2013.

New Zealand needs statesmen who are concerned for the next generation, not politicians who are concerned about the next election. Winston Peters could have, if he had wished, stopped The Prime Minister and Justice Ministers dead in their tracks from pursuing their evil agenda to make the killing of the unborn no longer a serious crime, but a “health service.” Why did he not follow his informed conscience and state that the killing of the unborn is a serious crime. If he had done that, he would have been loudly applauded and supported by those in the community who are committed to promoting a culture of life and opposing a culture of death. We believe that this  support would been reflected at the next general election.

It is still not too late. Right to Life now requests that NZ First steps back from the brink of disaster and withdraws its support for the war on women and their precious unborn. NZ First could courageously be the champions of women by promoting legislation that recognises the unborn child from conception as a human being endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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