Foetal Pain

Why is Jacinda Ardern Opposed to Pain Relief for the Unborn?

January 31, 2021 by Philip 1 Comment

Media Release 30 January 2021

Right to Life believes that the government is in violation of the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The government is inflicting torture and violent death on our unborn children for the crime of being “unwanted.” The sentence for this offence is state funded death, there is no appeal or reprieve and there is unlimited funding. The Hon. Andrew Little, Minister of Health said at the United Nations in 2019,”New Zealand has a long standing commitment to human rights.”

Why did Jacinda Ardern, who loves children and encourages us to be kind, vote against an amendment to the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 that would have provided pain relief for babies being killed in abortion? The Prime Minister was supported in this crime against humanity by 37 members of her caucus.

Medical science confirms that unborn babies from 22 weeks experience intense pain when being violently dismembered in an abortion. There are many scientists who believe that the child can experience pain from at least 12 weeks gestation.

There is no legal requirement in New Zealand to provide pain relief or to inform the mother that her child will suffer excruiciating suffering.

There were 70 abortions at 20 weeks plus in 2019.

The Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, has directed in the interim Standards of Care for Women Seeking an Abortion in New Zealand that from 22 weeks the baby should be executed by feticide with a lethal injection of potassium chloride into the heart of the baby.

Dr Bloomfield recently reported that there were few District Health Boards that were providing feticide because many doctors refused on conscience grounds to killing the baby for reasons other than severe foetal abnormality.

Right to Life questions the lawfulness of these abortions when a doctor considered that they were “inappropriate.”

There are 13 States in the United States that require for informed consent that women having an abortion be advised that from 20 weeks their child may feel pain.

Human Rights Watch warn that it is excruciatingly painful to execute a human being with potassium chloride. It is not a health service to inflict pain on a patient, why then do we inflict pain and suffering on defenceless children being violently killed and pretend that this is a health service?

It is a cruel and unusual punishment to kill a child with potassium chloride.

Why does the government not require that the child be given an analgesic with the potassium chloride to deaden the excruciating pain?
Why does the government not legislate to require that pain relief be given to every child to minimise the suffering in an abortion of any gestation?

Right to Life believes that the government refuses to acknowledge the suffering of unborn children because it would be acknowledging that it is funding the killing of human children who are members of our human family. It is the belief of The Prime Minister and her government that the unborn child is not a human being from conception and only becomes a human being when it is born. This is the legal fiction that the government uses to justify the mass murder of our children.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Abortion Legislation Bill 2020 Extremities Summarised by Family First

April 30, 2020 by Admin Leave a Comment

Family First’s partnership website Choose Life recently posted a very comprehensive article summarising the glaring problems and extreme provisions within the Jacinda Ardern’s, recently enacted 2020 Abortion Legislation Act. The post also exposes how amendments that would have mitigated the more extreme aspects of the bill, such as the born alive provision and fetal pain provision were all voted down by a majority of our MP’s. The implications of these amendments being rejected is quite frankly shocking.

The post also presents the voting record of all MP’s not only on the Bill but on each of the major table SOP’s (Amendments).

Here are the sections of this must read article

POLICY FAIL

WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN?

LATE-TERM ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH ARE LEGAL

BORN ALIVE PROVISION VOTED DOWN

FOETAL PAIN PROVISION VOTED DOWN

COERCION & SUPPORT

NO PARENTAL NOTIFICATION

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE PROVISIONS

SEX SELECTIVE ABORTIONS

DANGEROUS D.I.Y. ABORTIONS AT HOME

LOOSE DEFINITION OF ‘HEALTH PRACTITIONER’

GESTATIONAL TIME LIMIT FOR DISABILITIES

PUBLIC OPPOSITION

VOTING RECORD (of MP’s)

Further Background Information

“Interim Standards for Abortion Services in New Zealand” – Right to Life Suggests Amendments

April 28, 2020 by Admin 2 Comments

Dr Ashley Bloomfield,
Director General of Health,
24th April 2020Dear Dr Bloomfield,

I wish to request that consideration be given to the following suggestions for amending the “Interim Standards for Abortion Services in New Zealand”.

Information for Women

Abortion is safer than continuing a pregnancy

This statement is untrue. The abortion is not safe for the unborn child. Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not health care. Pregnancy is a normal condition that with care from health professionals who provide care for both mother and child terminates with a live birth. Abortion is the only medical procedure that has the specific intention of killing a patient, an unborn child. Abortion is neither safe for the mother who may be left with a lifetime of regret and sorrow, nor for the unborn child who is violently killed. It is abhorrent that the Ministry should be seen as promoting the destruction by abortion of innocent and defenceless unborn children by making this statement. I request that consideration be given to replacing that statement with the following statement, Human life begins at conception and that abortion entails the destruction of a unique and unrepeatable miracle of the Creator.

Long term complications from abortion

There is no mention of long term complications arising from abortion, Infertility, miscarriages, pre-maturity in future pregnancies and psychological damage to women’s health.

The findings of a study by Professor David Fergusson conducted in 2009 indicated that abortion damages the psychological health of teenagers. The study, the largest of its type and most detailed long-term study ever undertaken, attracted international attention. The research was conducted by the Canterbury Health and Development Study, at the Christchurch School of Medicine. The research was led by Professor David Fergusson, Ph.D. who is a psychologist and epidemiologist; He said that his research team had followed the progress of 1265 children born in Christchurch in the mid 1970s, from infancy to adulthood. Nearly 500 women in the study became pregnant by the age of 25 and 90 women had an abortion. 90 pregnancies ended with the deliberate termination of the life of the child.

His research found 41 per cent of the women studied had become pregnant by age 25, and that 14.6 percent had had an abortion. By the age of 25, the study found that 42 per cent who had undergone an abortion had also suffered major depression during the previous four years. In total, this was nearly double the rate of those who had never been pregnant and 35 per cent higher than those who had allowed their baby to be born. Those who had endured an abortion were also twice as likely to drink alcohol to dangerous levels compared with those who had a live birth, and three times as likely to be dependent on illicit drugs. Those who had an abortion also suffered elevated rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal behaviours.

Abortion Breast Cancer Link

It is recommended that women should be informed that international studies reveal that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer. The study, titled “A meta-analysis of the association between induced abortion and breast cancer risk among Chinese females” was published in 2014 in Cancer Causes and Control, a peer-reviewed international cancer journal. The study reveals that after one abortion the risk of breast cancer increases by 44%, after two abortions,76% and after three abortions 89%.

The research was conducted by Yubei Huang et al. from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital.

The Chinese research follows on the heels of two similar studies. One study published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine in May 2013 found a 6-fold greater risk of breast cancer among Indian women with a history of induced abortion when compared to the women with no such history. A similar study from Bangladesh published in the Journal of the Dhaka Medical College in April 2013 found that women with a history of induced abortion had a 20-fold increase in likelihood of developing breast cancer when compared to women with no such history.

Pain Relief for Unborn Child

It is requested that women seeking a surgical abortion be advised that the unborn child from 12 weeks gestation can feel pain. Women should be asked if they wish to have pain relief given to their child before it undergoes violent dismemberment in her womb.
In a recent article in the influential journal Medical Ethics, two researchers, including a pro-abortion British pain expert who used to believe that there was no possibility that unborn babies could feel pain before 24 weeks, say that there is now “good evidence” that the brain and nervous system, which start developing at 12 weeks gestation are sufficiently developed to feel pain.

Printed information

It is suggested that the Ministry produce an information pamphlet to be given to women considering an abortion. This would ensure that there is uniformity of information provided by abortion providers.

Before the abortion- The abortion decision

Foetal development [which may include showing pictures of foetal development.]
It is contended that for informed consent factual pictures of an unborn child should be shown.

It is recommended that the misleading and dehumanising term products of conception should be replaced with the correct term, human remains.

It is recommended that the suggestion that all women be given the opportunity to be seen on their own to address the issues of coercion and to facilitate honest and open discussion be amended to must be seen on their own. Coercion, domestic violence and threats of violence cannot be addressed if the person exercising coercion is not excluded from honest and open discussion.

Medical abortion reversal – Informed Consent

It is requested that information about medical abortion reversal be included in the information pamphlet. Ten years ago Dr David Delgado of the United States developed a therapy using Progesterone that was administered to women who have changed their minds about proceeding with an abortion after taking the drug Mifepristone. Progesterone is administered within 72 hours of taking Mifepristone. Since its inception more than 600 babies have been saved from destruction. There is no record of any complications occurring, nor has any woman died as a consequence of the therapy. There are internationally 400 medical practitioners who are trained to use this therapy.

Waiting Times In Abortion Services

It is recommended that women should not be offered assessment, counselling and procedure on the same day. Women should be required to be given sufficient time to reflect after assessment and counselling before the destruction of their child. It is recommended that the procedure not take place for three days after assessment.

It is recommended that the abortion provider must make every reasonable effort to contact the regular General Practitioner of the patient before making a decision to proceed with an abortion procedure. This would provide the patient and the doctor with more relevant information and reduce the risk of a complication.

It is recommended that after assessment the abortion provider communicate with the women’s own medical practitioner to advise the practitioner of the proposed abortion to enable the practitioner to deal with any complications that might arise from the abortion.

Yours sincerely

Ken Orr
Secretary,
Right to Life