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Petition: Retain existing abortion legislation in New Zealand

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Abortion NZRight to Life has launched a new petition on the CitizenGo.org website

Please join us in signing this petition and standing-up for vulnerable women and importantly the unborn, the weakest and most at risk members of our human community. This petition with your signatures will be sent to the Ministers involved in this legislation, Health, Justice and Women.

SIGN THIS PETITION NOW!

Petition to: Minister of Health Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman

Dear Ministers of Health, Justice and Women,

This petition requests that the House of Representatives;

Retains the existing legislation pertaining to abortion under the Crimes Act 1961 and the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act, 1977. 

Recognises that the existing legislation provides vulnerable women with some safeguards which ensure they can give informed consent and that they are able to consider their options when facing an unplanned pregnancy. 

Ensure that all health professionals who have conscientious objections, afforded by Section 46 of the CS &A Act 1977, to being involved directly or indirectly in an abortion procedure, maintain their freedom to choose not to participate or facilitate in any way the intentional death of an unborn child.

Preamble:

Dear friends of life please sign this petition asking our government not to decriminalise abortion. Activists have been demanding that abortion be removed from the Crimes Act and made merely a medical matter between a woman and a doctor. Right to Life believes that it is important that we understand why abortion is in the Crimes Act 1961, Section VIII, Crimes against the Person and why it would be a great injustice to women and to the unborn to remove abortion from this statute and to treat abortion purely as a health issue.  [Read more…]

7 Questions for the Greens on Their Abortion Policy

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Jan Logie

Jan Logie NZ Green Party

Right to Life has asked the following seven questions of Jan Logie Spokesperson for the NZ Green Party, on among other things, Women and Rainbow issues. From the Green’s website this is what Jan Logie has to say about herself: ” I am passionate about reducing inequality, eliminating violence and promoting participation in society, locally and globally.”

Pity that generosity of spirit does not seem to extend to the right to life of the unborn child.

Here are our questions to her: We will keep you posted as to what response we get from her.

1 Why are the Greens seeking to establish 20 weeks as a cut off point. What happens at 20 weeks in the development of the child that requires this limit?

2 Are you planning a restrictive bubble around abortion clinics where no one may enter to pray, protest or to offer women seeking an abortion assistance?

3 What action will the law require when doctors refuse to refer a woman seeking an abortion to another doctor who will perform the abortion? [Read more…]

Why Does the Prime Minister Support Violence Against Women?

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Media Release  11 June 2014

Abortion is now a significant election issue.

Right to Life is disappointed that The Prime Minister, the Right Hon John Key, in response to the Green Party’s proposal to decriminalise the killing of children in the womb stated, “I personally support the status quo. I have been in favour of the right for women to choose, but there is a formal medical process around that. I think the balance is about right and I think we should just leave it where it is.”

Right to Life makes no apology for once again speaking up in defence of women and the unborn child. A National government under John Key, took office in November 2009. It is estimated that in the five years that the National government has been in office, that 75,000 children in their first nine months of life, were taken with the approval of the government, to a place designated by the government, to be killed in their mother’s womb. Their murder is an unspeakable crime against humanity and a preventable tragedy. It is tragic when our Prime Minister thinks that this is acceptable. Does he also accept the damage done to women’s health with a potential lifetime of grief, regret and sorrow?  Does he also accept that having an abortion is associated with significant increase in risk of depression, a 155 per cent increased risk in attempted attempted suicide,  a 110 per cent increased risk of alcohol abuse and an increased risk of drug abuse.

The Prime Minister claims to support the “right of women to choose” to kill their unborn.

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The Greens Declare War on Women, The Unborn and The Disabled

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Media Release  6th  June 2014

The Green Party has declared support for decriminalising abortion. This is bad news for women and their precious unborn. The decriminalising of abortion would mean that it would no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child. An abortion would be at the request of a woman for any reason or no reason. The Green Party was successful in a coalition government with Labour in Victoria and Tasmania in decriminalising abortion, which effectively means that in those Australian states, an abortion is available on request for the full nine months of pregnancy.

The first and only duty of government is to legislate for the protection of the right to life of all its members and not to preside over their destruction. The Green Party has now abdicated its duty to protect our unborn children, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family and has now made itself unfit to be in government.

Right to Life believes that many citizens will be repulsed by the Green’s adoption of a culture of death and will be apprehensive of voting for Labour in the belief that Labour could be enticed into supporting the Green’s sinister proposal. Right to Life requests that the Labour Party now makes a public commitment not to enter into any coalition agreement with the Greens to decriminalise the killing of the unborn.

The Greens have declared war on women. There are 200 million women missing in the world today because of sex selection abortions. The current abortion legislation protects women by making it unlawful to kill a child in the womb because it is not the desired sex. The Greens now want to legalise the killing of female children in the womb because they are not the desired sex, this is monstrous. Just how does the Green’s represent the best interest of women?

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ALRANZ Makes War on the Disabled

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Media Release 21st May 2014 

The Abortion Law Reform Association, in a recent discussion paper, seeks common ground with the disability sector.This would appear commendable. Right to Life fully supports the Association’s following principles; “The right to accurate, balanced information about disability. The right to adequate social and financial support for raising a child with a disability. The right to have or refuse prenatal testing.”  Right to Life however, does not support the following principle “the right to terminate a pregnancy when a fetal diagnosis is made.”

ALRANZ promotes a culture of death. This culture which is evil, demands complete acceptance. It will not tolerate the truth and accepts no compromise with its deadly agenda. It is simply  not possible for ALRANZ,  to find common ground with the disability sector, which promotes a culture of life and is protective of the rights of the disabled. ALRANZ’s objectives in promoting abortion, are diametrically opposed to a culture of life.

The disability sector should be alert to the hidden agenda of ALRANZ, who hide as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Its hidden agenda is to seduce the disability sector into giving their valuable support for the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. It disingenuously  proclaims that it is opposed to discrimination against the disabled, but it is not. ALRANZ is totally supportive of the killing of children in the womb including the “disabled”, for any reason or no reason. Can  ALRANZ explain why they support the killing of the unborn diagnosed with Down Syndrome, Spina Bifida or other disability?

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Family Planning Accuses Government of Violations of Human Rights

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Media Release  6th March 2014

The New Zealand Family Planning Association[FPA] in its submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council had the breath-taking audacity to accuse the New Zealand government of violating the human rights of women and girls living in New Zealand. The UN Council was meeting in February to review the performance of the government in its upholding human rights. Right to Life believes that the FPA is itself guilty of supporting serious human rights violations.

The UN accusations are very serious ones; they are an affront to our nation. The main accusation is that the government has not decriminalised abortion to allow for abortion on demand for the whole of pregnancy, for any reason, or no reason. The FPA claims to represent the women of New Zealand at the United Nations and to be the champion of the human rights of women. How dare they, this is challenged; the ideology of the FPA is alien to that held by the fast majority of New Zealand women.

Who then has appointed the FPA to fill this role? Nobody, they have appointed themselves. FPA is a business; its business is selling sex, and its objective is to encourage as many people as possible to be sexually active. Its marketing strategy is to seduce our children and to increase its client base by infiltrating schools with comprehensive sex education programmes that threaten the morals and health of our children. Family Planning claim that they promote choice; this is a charade, for they are opposed to schools consulting with parents to seek approval for the use of sex education programmes in school. They are also opposed to parents having the right to withdraw their children from these offensive programmes. The FPA does not accept that parents are the first educators of their children, for the FPA believes that they are.

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ALRANZ Push for Decriminalisation of Abortion Seeks Abortion on Demand for Any Reason Up to Birth

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Editor,

Sunday Star Times.

Dear Sir

Re 12 January. Firstly Dr Healey is not a medical practitioner. Dr Morgan Healey claims that abortions are safe, why does she ignore the real grief and suffering inflicted on women by the loss of their child? She infers that the Abortion Law Reform Association represents the women of New Zealand, it does not.  ALRANZ has a national membership of less than 100 members indicating minimal support. ALRANZ  seeks the decriminalisation of abortion. This would entail the  removal of legal protection for the human rights of unborn children, the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. The public should be warned that ALRANZ wants to remove abortion from the Crimes Act with the killing of the unborn child no longer being a crime. Abortion would be available on demand for the whole nine months of pregnancy for any reason or no reason. There are 200 million women missing in the world, the result of sex selection abortions. This is the ultimate discrimination against women for it victimises two women, the mother and her daughter in the womb. The discrimination is compounded for many of these abortions are  forced on  women who want to protect their daughter. Why does ALRANZ support sex selection abortions?

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Labour Party Makes War on Women

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Media Release  3rd November 2013

The Labour Party has not adopted the following policy presented at its Conference in Christchurch. The Party Conference instead recommended that the proposal to decriminalise abortion be referred, on becoming the government, to the Law Commission for an opinion. David Cunliffe has recently publicly stated that he supports the decriminalisation of abortion, and also supports the Law Commission being asked to provide an opinion.

This was the ploy used by the Labour government in Victoria in 2008 and it is now going to be tried on here in New Zealand. It is clear that the Labour Party supports the decriminalisation of abortion but knows full well that many of it’s supporters do not. So in view of the coming general election in 2014 Labour realises that it is politically expedient to side step this controversial justice issue until after the election. This is nothing more than a cynical attempt to deceive the electorate as to the true intentions of the Labour Party. The electorate will not be deceived.

Here is the policy, which is being driven by Young Labour.

1.That Labour is committed to women’s health and well-being, and strongly endorses a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body. Therefore, Labour in Government will:

a) Adopt measures to ensure that a pregnant woman has the opportunity and freedom to make the best decision for her own circumstances;

b) Decriminalise abortion;

c) Ensure that access to abortion is available to women throughout the country

Decriminalisation promotes violence against women and their unborn and reveals the Labour Party as being hypocritical.

The Labour Party is opposed to child abuse yet it is promoting abortion which is the ultimate in child abuse.

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North & South – Complaint – The Value of Life

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Secretary,

Press Council,

Dear Mrs Major

North & South – Complaint – The Value of Life

I wish to lodge a complaint against the magazine North & South in respect of the article titled ‘The Value of Life’, which was featured in the October edition. My complaint is that the article breaches the Press Council Statement of Principles 1 Accuracy, Fairness and Balance.

It is noted that in this article of nine pages, approximately one quarter to three quarters of one page in total, is dedicated to pro-life comment; the remainder is devoted to the promotion of abortion as a necessary health service. Approximately 20 persons were interviewed in this article but only three who defended life. The other 17 are supportive of the killing of unborn children. Twelve of these were abortion activists. The article features the stories of four women who had an abortion and who did not reveal any damage inflicted on their health. There are many women in our community who are suffering a lifetime of physical and terrible psychological damage, as a result of their child being killed in an abortion. Why were none of these women interviewed and given the opportunity of warning other women of the potential suffering, that results from abortion?

New Zealand has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the world yet we refuse to accept that abortion is the ultimate in child abuse. How can parliament pass legislation that makes it an offence to smack a child yet approves and funds as a core health service, the killing of the child before birth?

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David Cunliffe Declares Support for the killing of Unborn Children

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Media Release   16th September 2013

As the leader of the Labour Party, the position of David Cunliffe on abortion and his failure to oppose violence against women and their precious unborn children will have serious consequences for the Labour Party at the next general election.

Right to Life is disappointed that the new leader of the Labour Party supports violence against women and their unborn children. At a recent meeting, the three contenders for the leadership of the Labour Party were asked what their position were on abortion. David Cunliffe responded by stating:

"I want to see a woman’s right to choose protected. The current law hasn’t been reviewed for many years and I think that is now urgent. The Law Commission would be best placed to undertake this review as it is a conscience issue which splits across parties."

As a potential future Prime Minister his response is very disturbing and frightening.

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