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Hate Speech Laws – We will not be silenced

June 26, 2021 by Admin Leave a Comment

Media Release 26 June 2021

Right to Life believes that the Labour government has made a fatal mistake in pushing ahead to criminalise hate speech. We believe that the laws being proposed will cost Labour the 2023 election. Other than speech that constitutes libel and words that directly incite violence or public harm which are already protected by the Bill of Rights, there is no place in our democracy for what is being pushed forward. The New Zealand public will not tolerate laws that facilitate state power to directly attack their personal views and liberties.

Right to Life believes that what the government plans for us is nothing less than the thin edge of the wedge of totalitarianism.

Right to Life will not be silenced in protesting the violent killing of our precious unborn children in the state funded genocide and neither will we be silenced concerning the violence inflicted on their mothers, the second victim of abortion.

There is no government or law that will deter us from being a voice for the voiceless. We will not be intimidated with threats of fines of $50,000 and three years in prison.

Right to Life calls on the community to rise up and resolutely oppose the government’s proposed “hate speech laws” that are both unnecessary and threaten our right to free speech guaranteed by the NZ Bill of Rights. Right to life believes that the government seeks to silence dissent in the community under the pretence of promoting “social cohesion.”

Right to Life requests that the Minister of Justice, the Hon. Kris Faafoi, inform us If it is his government’s intention to criminalise those persons who protest at the state funded killing of unborn children?

Those who do not learn from history must endure the pain of making the same mistake. We should learn from regimes such as Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia that suppressed free speech with hate speech laws. Those who criticised the government were interred in concentration camps or executed.

We all have a duty to defend the sanctity of life of every member of our community from conception to natural death.

Right to Life believes that the government itself is responsible for promoting not only hate speech but actually conducts violence in our community by funding and undertaking the murder of countless thousands of our precious unborn children.

Denying the humanity of the unborn child until it is born.
Denying its inalienable right to life.
Providing for a state funded genocide of “unwanted” children.
Making the killing of unborn children a core health service with unlimited funding and no waiting list.
Allowing for the killing of more than 13,000 unborn children every year, effectively for any reason up to birth.

If the Minister is really serious about promoting a socially cohesive society he should:-

Repeal the born alive law which is a legal fiction.
legislate for the legal recognition of the unborn child as a human being endowed with a right to life.
Cease government funding of abortion.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Pro-abortion group threat to freedom of speech, assembly, communication and religion

June 2, 2021 by Admin 2 Comments

Media Release 2 June 2021

Terry Bellamak is the spokesperson for a small radical anti-life and anti-feminist organisation that believes that the law should allow the killing of the unborn up to birth, for any reason. The organisation is believed to have a national membership of about forty-five members. This radical and dangerous organisation not only wants no restrictions on abortion but represents a real and continuing threat to the exercise of our right to free speech, assembly, communication and religion.

These human rights are upheld by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and guaranteed by the New Zealand Bill of Rights. Ms Bellamak has presented a petition supported by 2,400 persons to Parliament requesting that the Health Select Committee amend the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion [Safe Areas] Bill to create safe areas automatically around all abortion facilities and clinics. This would constitute an unprecedented attack on our human rights that must be resisted.

Ms Bellamak seeks to control what we believe, what we say, where we assemble, what we communicate and where we may pray.

Ms Bellamak claims that women accessing abortion clinics are being intimidated and harassed by caring, peaceful, law abiding people who are conducting prayer vigils praying for an end to abortion, for the women who are the second victim of abortion and for the doctors and nurses engaged in doing abortions. She is victimising women by seeking to prevent them from seeking help from those who are praying.

Ms Bellamak refuses to produce any evidence of the alleged harassment and continues to slander those praying by calling them “bullies and busybodies.”

Eighteen District Health Boards in New Zealand have advised Right to Life in response to an Official Information Act request that they have no record of either verbal or written complaints of intimidation or harassment from women accessing abortion at their facilities over a two year period, nor did they have complaints from staff accessing abortion facilities. The two DHBs that have not replied do not perform abortions.

This response is significant: if there are no complaints, it raises questions about the veracity of Ms Bellamak’s alarming and unfounded accusations.

The media are at the service of the community that they serve. Right to Life therefore requests that the media oppose this contentious bill by being at the forefront in defending our right to free speech, assembly, communication and religion .

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Re-elected Labour government increasing threat to human rights and traditional family.

October 18, 2020 by Philip 1 Comment

Media Release 17 October 2020

Right to Life is disappointed that the electorate has re-elected Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Labour government for a further term of government. Right to Life believes that only those who are committed to protecting the lives of every person in the community from conception to natural death are worthy of sitting in our Parliament or of governing us. Right to Life believes that the Labour government of Jacinda Ardern has forfeited its right to govern us because of their failure to protect women and their precious unborn from the violence of abortion which is now promoted as no longer a crime but health care. They have also failed to protect the vulnerable in our community from euthanasia and assisted suicide with their overwhelming support for the End of Life Choice Act.

Right to Life warns the community that Western civilisation and its values are under attack by neoliberalism and post modernism. Following the government’s violation of human rights during its first term, we need to be alert to the re-energised agenda that will be pursued by the government this term, which will increasingly threaten the sanctity of life and the traditional family, the foundation of our nation.

This government, during its first term, presided over the government funded killing of more than 30,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children. It also passed the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 which denied the humanity of the unborn child and declared that it was no longer a crime to kill a defenceless unborn child. There were more than 25,000 written submissions to the Abortion Legislation select committee, with 90 per cent of these opposed to decriminalising abortion, the government ignored these submissions.

This government caucus also gave overwhelming support to the End of Life Choice Act, which would empower doctors to administer a lethal injection or assist in the suicide of vulnerable patients, as “health care”.

This government threatens free speech, with its promise to introduce legislation to prohibit hate speech. This could be used to prohibit churches from teaching that killing unborn children in abortion or killing the vulnerable in euthanasia is a violation of human rights and an offence to God.

The government fully supports the Private Members Bill of Louisa Wall M.P., to restrict the right of free speech and assembly within 150 metres of an abortion facility. This law would deny women seeking an abortion, their right to obtain help from those present.

This election is a sad day for our parliamentary democracy, as the Labour government now has an overwhelming majority that will allow it to legislate as it wishes. Will the news media serve our community by being an effective watchdog?

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Alert -LifeSiteNews Under Attack from LGBT Activists

October 29, 2018 by Admin Leave a Comment

Right to Life has just been made aware of an attack on the highly respected LifeSiteNews website, one of the world’s most informative and visited websites on life issues. We received this information today 28th October 2018. Right to Life relies on websites like this one, to inform of important life issues such as abortion, euthanasia and the attack on traditional values. Along with FB and Twitter shutting down a number of Pro-Life pages recently, we are beginning to see the sort of attack on free speech which is described below. Here is the email we received from LifeSite. Make your own mind up about whether censorship of those who express a view inconsistent with the current liberal paradigm has gone up a notch. So much for Tolerance eh? Right to Life believes we are going to see more and more of this sort of determined attempt to suppress the truth. Reads… [Read more…]

Tasmania Declares War against Women and the Unborn A Wakeup Call for New Zealand

November 24, 2013 by Admin Leave a Comment

Violation of Conscience Rights Enacted

Media Release 24th November 2013

The Tasmanian Upper House has declared war on the women of Tasmania by inflicting on them the most anti-woman abortion legislation on the planet.

Women are no longer safe from having their child in their womb killed during the whole nine months of their pregnancy. The law has now effectively declared that the State of Tasmania has no interest in protecting the life of her child as a future citizen or in protecting her health and welfare. Abortion has been taken out of the Crimes Act and is now treated as a health issue. It is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child. Abortion is provided on request up to 16 weeks gestation with no reason whatsoever required. After 16 weeks and up to birth, the unborn child may be killed, if two doctors believe that “continuing the pregnancy involves greater risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the woman than if the pregnancy was terminated.” There is now effectively abortion on demand up to birth, according to a legal expert.

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