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Supreme Court upholds teenager’s right to vote but rejects right to life of unborn child

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Media Release 23 November 2022

The Supreme Court is concerned about the alleged discrimination against 16 year olds who are denied the right to vote for Parliament until they are 18, but is shamefully silent on the discrimination against the 13,257 unborn children who were violently killed in 2021 because they were not old enough to be recognised as human beings with a right to life. 

 The right to life is the foundation human right that is upheld by the Bill of Rights Act 1990, which reads:

Life and security of the person

Section 8, Right not to be deprived of life,

No one shall be deprived of life except on such grounds as are established by law and are consistent with the principles of fundamental justice.

Right to Life is disappointed that the Supreme Court has seen fit to deliver a decision to uphold a right of 16 year olds to vote at a general election. In 2011 the Supreme Court rejected a cross appeal from Right to Life in our judicial appeal against the Abortion Supervisory Committee. Our appeal on behalf of unborn children was to consider our case in support of the right to life of unborn children, upheld by the Bill of Rights, section 8, Right not to be deprived of life.

The Supreme Court’s decision of November 2022 recognises that the current voting age limit of 18 violates the Bill of Rights Act 1990, alleging that it is discriminatory on the basis of age.

There is an appalling injustice inflicted on unborn children who are discriminated on the basis of age. The discrimination is contained in section 159 of the Crimes Act which denies the humanity of the child and its right to  life until it is born.

The Supreme Court would have been aware when they declined our appeal in 2011 that in 2010 a total of 16,630 unborn children were violently killed in New Zealand. Right to Life believes that the Supreme Court has deplorably failed to defend the right to life of the unborn, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. Their silence has been deafening!

Since the Supreme Court shamefully declined to hear our case in 2011 on behalf of our precious unborn, a total of 136,866 unborn children have been poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or have been violently dismembered.

Right to Life passionately believes that the Supreme Court should be defenders of justice and the protectors of the lives of our precious unborn, the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family. Right to Life longs for the day when we have a Supreme Court that is truly devoted to protecting the lives of New Zealanders from conception to natural death.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

Abortion is never safe for the mother or her child

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Media Release 28 September 2022

Today, the 28th September, the international billion dollar abortion industry and the anti-feminist movement celebrates “International safe abortion day.” Their objective to make the killing of the unborn free, safe and legal. Well may the industry led by Family Planning in New Zealand celebrate as they can now kill the innocent and defenceless child effectively for any reason up to birth.

 Abortion is never safe. In every abortion an innocent and defenceless unborn child is murdered by being poisoned, sucked out of its mother’s womb or violently and painfully dismembered.

This claims to be a global feminist campaign to support women’s rights and calls for those who support women’s rights and gender justice to speak up.

Women’s rights begin in the womb and Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up for the right of females to be born. True feminism is non-violent is inclusive and protective of the weak and vulnerable. 

 The mother is the second victim of the killing of her child who is grievously wounded, spiritually, physically, psychologically and emotionally. She is left with a lifetime of grief, sorrow, remorse and pain. Why do we allow this intolerable violence to be inflicted on our women and their unborn?

The leading cause of death in 2021 was abortion. There were an estimated 73 million children murdered in their mother’s womb in 2021. All other deaths are estimated at 58.7 million. The World Medical Association reported 3.5 million deaths from Covid-19.

Abortion is not free, as we, the taxpayers, are forced to pay for the killing of our nation’s unborn. We have no right to choose to have the innocent blood of our children on our hands, this is an intolerable injustice.

Abortion is legal, it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child because the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 designed by our Prime Minister decrees that the child is not a human being with a right to life until it is born.

Dr Tracey Morrison, a South African follows a long line of foreigners appointed by ALRANZ to be president and spokesperson. It is believed that ALRANZ has a national membership of about 45 members, hardly representative of the women of New Zealand.

In a media release today Dr. Morrison claims that abortion is one part of reproductive justice that includes the right of bodily autonomy and the choice whether to parent or not. It is appalling that she seeks justice but denies justice for the unborn. She claims bodily autonomy but denies the bodily autonomy of the unborn child. She claims the right to choose parenting but ignores the fact that the mother is a parent at the conception of her child.

We need to show that we can create a world where we can love children and not kill them. A world where adoption is always a better option, a world where we care for women and their children. This is our opportunity to make the grisly performance of abortion, like slavery, unthinkable in a civilised modern society.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Why does the government support the slavery of the unborn?

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Media Release 21 August 2022

Right to Life asks why are the churches that should recognise unborn children as unique and unrepeatable miracles of God’s loving creation and human beings endowed with human rights not speaking up in defence of the humanity of our precious unborn children?

 Where are the statesmen in our Parliament who, following the example of William Wilberforce, will dedicate their lives to seeking legal recognition of the unborn child as a human being endowed with human rights?

The New Zealand government has made a commitment to prevent and eliminate all forms of modern slavery, yet inflicts slavery on its own unborn children, allowing for the violent killing of more than 13,000 unborn children who have been denied their humanity and reduced to the status of property.

Our humanity and human rights are bestowed on us by our Creator and not by Parliament or by the government. Right to Life asks The Prime Minister why her government accepts the legal fiction contained in the Crimes Act 1961, section 159, that the unborn child is not a human being with a right to life until it is born. If it is not a human being, it is a chattel and the property of the mother.

 The government, to justify the killing of the unborn, has followed the example of the slave owners in the United States, that to justify slavery it was first necessary to deny the humanity and human rights of black people.

Prior to 2020, the killing of the unborn child was prohibited under the Crimes Act because the law recognised the unborn child as a human being endowed with human rights and its killing as a crime.

The government of Jacinda Ardern recognised that if they were going to give women the right to kill their unborn children,  then it would be necessary to deny the humanity of the unborn child and remove them from the protection of the Crimes Act, it would then confer on unborn children the status of a chattel and the property of the mother.

The Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, stated when presenting the Abortion Legislation bill on 8th August 2019 that he rejected claims that abortion was a denial of human rights and was killing, and murder.

He stated “I reject those notions. I accept on legal and moral grounds the established jurisprudence in New Zealand that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible, and that the widely accepted human rights that we all understand apply when they are capable of being exercised, which is to say I accept the “born alive” principle that guides our courts today.” This is an absurd legal fiction and a violation of human rights.

Right to Life believes that it is appalling that the government, the ACT Party and the Greens give total support to modern slavery by inflicting the status of chattel on our unborn with the cruel denial of the humanity of the unborn child.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Roe v Wade overturn upholds constitution and right of states to legislate

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Media Release 29 June 2022

The overturn of Roe v Wade was not only an historic victory for women and the unborn child but was also a victory for upholding the United States Constitution and the right of States to legislate on abortion and provide legal protection for the right to life of unborn children.

Right to Life is disappointed that all of our political leaders have failed to support the decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn the deeply flawed and unconstitutional Roe v Wade decision of 1973. 

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who supports the killing of the unborn as a health service, stated, the decision was “incredibly disturbing.”

The leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon who claims to be pro-life and believes that abortion is murder, stated in his maiden speech  that he would not force his beliefs on others. He said that the Roe v Wade decision was “incredibly shocking and incredibly distressing,”

 David Seymour, ACT leader, who supports abortion, stated that he was “flabbergasted.”

Jan Logie, Greens, Spokesperson for women, who supports abortion, stated, “Aotearoa should be a place where everyone …… can choose what is right for their body and their future.”

The Roe v Wade decision was the most evil document in human history, it resulted in a 49 year reign of terror and killing imposed on American women and their unborn. America has been soaked in the blood of 64 million innocent and defenceless children whose only crime was that they were unwanted.

Abortion is violence against women and the unborn. In 1973 there were 30 States that prohibited abortion at all stages of pregnancy.

The Roe v Wade decision of 1973 struck down the laws of 50 States to regulate abortion, to provide legal protection for the lives of unborn children and to protect women, the second victim of abortion, this was a great injustice and an exercise of raw judicial power by the Supreme Court in 1973.

There were 26 States that made substantial written submissions to the Supreme Court in the hearing of the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation demanding the overturn of Roe v Wade and the restoration of their right to legislate on abortion. There was a vast movement in the United States of concerned citizens who worked, demonstrated and petitioned for 49 years for the overturn of Roe v Wade.

Right to Life asks the political leaders in our Parliament who support our Parliamentary democracy with the right to legislate, why they do not applaud the overturning of Roe v Wade and support the States exercising the long awaited restoration of their democratic right?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Are our political leaders really serious about opposing violence?

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Media Release 15 June 2022

Right to Life asks who is the greatest threat to innocent life in New Zealand – the government that funds and authorises the killing of 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children each year, or the criminal gangs?

 Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and the leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon are not consistent in opposing violence in our community.

The Prime Minister is commended for opposing the increased violence inflicted on our community by gangs with 20 recent drive by shootings.

Right to Life asks, why then is she silent on the horrific violence inflicted on women and the unborn with abortion that is funded and authorised by her government under a law that she carefully designed. This violence results in an estimated 36 unborn children each day being poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or being violently dismembered with their limbs being torn from their tiny bodies.

The community will not be deceived by this cruel charade which seeks to portray the government as our protector when Right to Life asks who presents the greatest threat to life, the government that funds the killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children each year or the criminal gangs?

The leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon, is to be commended for opposing the violence of the gangs. On 11th June he stated; “New Zealanders deserve to feel safe in their homes and communities.”

Today the most dangerous place for a New Zealander is in the mother’s womb. The womb is the home of the unborn child, it should be a place of security. It is disappointing that Christopher Luxon, who is passionate about opposing gang violence, is responding with a deafening silence to the silent scream of unborn children who protest at being violently and painfully killed with their bodily remains treated as medical waste to be disposed of at the local tip under the guise that it is a health service.

Right to Life is disappointed that Christopher Luxon, who is inspired by William Wilberforce, refuses to acknowledge that the unborn child is a human being with a right to life until it is born, this is slavery where the child becomes the property of the mother.

He has made it clear that his government will accept the killing of our children up to birth effectively for any reason as “settled law” and he has no intention of seeking to change the law, he has “other priorities.”

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister and Christopher Luxon, if you refuse to protect the defenceless unborn child why should we trust you to protect the born?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Will Christopher Luxon recognise humanity of unborn New Zealanders and their right to life?

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Media Release 5 April 2022

Right to Life is disappointed that the leader of the National Party is refusing to recognise that the unborn child is a human being endowed by its Creator with human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life. The unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, the weakest and most defenceless member of our human family that deserves our respect and protection.

 Right to Life has written three letters to him since his election as leader of the National party asking if he recognises that the unborn child, is a human being, with a right to life. We are disappointed that he has not replied.

The Crimes Act,1961, Section 159, Killing of a child, states that the unborn child does not become a human being with a right to life until it is born. This a legal fiction and a violation of human rights.

Our right to life is bestowed on us at conception by our Creator and it is this human right that makes us truly human. It is the duty of Parliament and the government to protect our human rights. Our right to life is not granted to us by Parliament or by the government.

Our right to life is a human rights issue, it is not a religious issue. Human life begins at conception, this is biological fact not a theological fact.

Those who govern do so with the permission of the governed. We have an absolute right to be a voice for the voiceless and to demand that those who seek to govern us recognise our unborn brothers and sisters as human beings endowed with a right to life and deserving of our respect and protection.

Christopher Luxon in his maiden speech applauded William Wilberforce for his tireless work to recognise Negros as human beings with a right to life and to abolish slavery. It was an appalling injustice to deny that black people were not human beings and were not bearers of human rights. Today it is an appalling injustice to deny that unborn children are not human beings with a right to life until they are born. This is the paramount human rights issue of this era.

Christopher Luxon also commendably proclaimed that he was, ”absolutely feminist.” Upholding the humanity of the unborn child is absolutely feminist. For it recognises the dignity of women and pregnancy.

Right to Life hopes that Christopher Luxon will be inspired by the example and words of William Wilberforce. who said,” let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.” and “you may choose to look the other way but you can never say that you did not know.”

Today the humanity and right to life of our unborn the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family are being cruelly denied.

Right to Life requests that Christopher Luxon follows the heroic example of William Wilberforce and publicly declares that he recognises that unborn children are one of us and are human beings from conception endowed with an inalienable right to life. May he be the passionate political leader and advocate that our unborn desperately need.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Human Rights Commissioner refuses to defend right to life of unborn child

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Media Release 26 March 2022

Right to Life is disappointed that the Human Rights Commissioner refuses to accept our complaint on behalf of unborn children that their right to life is being denied by the Crimes Act. Section 159 declares that the unborn child is not a human being and does not have a right to life until it is born, this is a legal fiction, and an appalling travesty of justice that is vigorously defended by the Minister of Justice, the government, Parliament and the Human Rights Commissioner. 

 Right to Life believes that human life begins at conception and that every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation. That at conception the child is a human being endowed with a right to life.

Why are the Churches not at the forefront in seeking justice for God’s precious infants?

Right to Life laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commissioner on 17th January 2022.

Our complaint was that the Minister of Justice, Kris Faafoi was violating Article 8, of the Human Rights Act, Right not to be deprived of life, by upholding the legal fiction that the unborn child was not a human being until it was born.

The Commission advised us on 23rd March 2022, that they were rejecting our complaint on the grounds that there was no connection between our complaint and the prohibited grounds of discrimination under the Human Rights Act.

Right to Life was engaged in seeking legal recognition of the unborn child as a human being endowed with an inalienable right to life, in a judicial review in a case against the Abortion Supervisory Committee filed in the High Court in 2005. Justice Millar dismissed our claim.

“The rule according human rights only at birth is founded on convenience rather than medical or moral grounds.” “A legal right to life would be incongruous in such a law, for it would treat the unborn child as a separate legal person, possessing a status fundamentally incompatible with induced abortion. Far from modifying the born alive rule, the abortion law rests on it.” “The unborn child has a claim on the conscience of the nation.”

How can the Human Rights Commissioner, NZ Parliament and the government continue to condone and justify the violent war against our unborn under the shameful pretext that they are not human beings?

When will their consciences oblivious to the silent screams and the suffering of our beloved unborn murdered every day under the pretext that their poisoning, being sucked from their mother’s wombs or being violently dismembered, is in the words of our Prime Minister, “reproductive health care. “

Our precious unborn children are human beings deserving of our love respect and protection.

Right to Life will not rest and will continue to be voice for the voiceless until Parliament passes legislation to recognise that the unborn child is a human being from conception and that it has been endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to Life.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N,Z, Inc.

Why does the Government permit the Torture of Unborn Children?

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Media Release 19 February 2022

 Right to Life requests that the government cease permitting the torturing of our precious children. Right to Life is appalled that the government authorises and funds the violent torturing and painful killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children in New Zealand every year under the fiction that this is health care.

 It is indefensible that these innocent and defenceless children are subject to excruciating pain as they are poisoned or sucked out of their mother’s womb or violently dismembered. It is simply unbelievable that these children are not given any pain relief before they are executed.

Why do we not hear the silent screams of the more than 13,000 unborn children who are tortured and killed each year in New Zealand? The pain of these children is shared by their mothers who are forever affected by the suffering of their children.

A new report by Dr Bridget Thill indicates that unborn children may be capable of feeling pain at 7 to 8 weeks’ gestation of pregnancy. Dr Thill’s study, which considered research from medical journals published from 1936 through 2021, was published in December 2021 in The Lineacre Quarterly

This peer reviewed article concluded that the capacity for the preborn child to feel pain begins during the first trimester- and for anyone to deny this is “no longer tenable.”

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act did not support pain relief for the unborn to be provided. Fetal pain is an inconvenient truth that compels pro-abortion ideologues to deny the excruciating pain and torture of abortion because to acknowledge it would require them to also accept that the child is a human being.

Is she not moved by the sight of an unborn child, in mortal danger, terrified with heart pounding, mouth open in a silent scream and frantically trying to avoid the murderous instrument of the doctor who has invaded her home, intent on murdering her?

Torture is illegal in New Zealand, it is prohibited in the NZ Crimes of Torture Act 1989.

Upon conviction a person may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 14 years. It is also outlawed in the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990.

Everyone has the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel or degrading treatment. New Zealand is also a signatory to the UN International Convention against Torture & other cruel inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Why then is the government not complying with its treaty obligations and upholding its own laws prohibiting torture?

It is intolerable to conceive that our hospitals, places of care and healing, are also places of torture and the killing of the unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Abortion is not a faith issue it is a Human Rights issue

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Media Release 18 December 2021

Right to Life believes that Nicola Willis, the National deputy leader, is doing a disservice to women, the National Party and the nation by refusing to uphold the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death.

 Right to Life is disappointed that, Nicola Willis mistakenly believes that abortion is a faith issue which should therefore be kept separate from party policy. 

The first duty of Parliament is to defend and protect the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death and not to preside over their destruction

In response to a recent Stuff media article by Andrea Vance, Nicola Willis states, “I just think that she underestimates the ability of people to see matters of faith separately from matters of policy and it’s been my experience that women are quite able of seeing capability in a leader and to trust in the policies of a party while disagreeing with them on conscience issues like abortion.”

It is profoundly disappointing that Nicola Willis refuses to do this herself, and proudly claims to be pro-choice, believing that it is pro-women. Right to Life believes that nobody has the right to choose to kill another innocent human being. Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation that is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life, that deserves our respect and protection.

Nicola Willis believes in the autonomy of women and control of their bodies. There are more than 6,000 female unborn babies violently murdered in their mother’s womb each year, why does she not support their autonomy; and their right to be born?

Our right to life is not a faith issue, it is a human rights issue which is recognised in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

She voted for the extremist Abortion Legislation Act and voted against the seven amendments that would have provided increased protection for  women and the unborn. These were providing care for babies born alive in an abortion, protection for disabled babies, provision of pain relief for babies and late term protection. This is a public declaration that she believes that:-

  • The unborn child is not a human being and does not become a human being with a right to life until it is born.
  • Women have a right to choose to kill their children before birth.
  • It is not a crime to kill an unborn child but in the words of our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern abortion is “a reproductive choice for women.”

Right to Life is disappointed that Nicola Willis supports a woman’s right to kill her children in the womb if they are unwanted, when she is the mother of four beautiful children, who will be well aware of the humanity of the unborn child, the wondrous miracle of life in the womb, the dignity of motherhood and the need to protect her child.

Right to Life believes that Nicola Willis, as a loving mother enhanced with a brilliant academic record, should be at the forefront of defending the lives of our unborn the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family and opposing the violence of abortion against vulnerable women.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Minister of Justice continues to deny humanity of unborn children

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Media Release 28 November 2021

Right to Life believes that the Minister of Justice the Hon. Chris Faafoi, is failing in his fundamental duty to promote effective legal protection for every human being in New Zealand from conception to natural death. He has acknowledged that he has no scientific evidence to support his contention that the unborn child does not become a human being with a right to life until it is born.

 It is an unspeakable tragedy that the Minister, does not recognise that life begins at conception and that every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, made in His image and likeness and endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life.

Right to Life makes no apology for continuing to be a voice for women and our unborn. We are disappointed that the Minister continues to refuse to protect our unborn. He continues to uphold, without any evidence, the statement that he made in a letter to our Society on 24th September 2021, this is a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity.

“Abortion is a health issue, not a criminal issue. It is also an issue of the women’s autonomy agency and reproductive rights that everyone has the right to decide what they will do with their own body”.

These are dangerous and dehumanising lies that sustain the government’s war on women, their precious unborn and on the family.  Medical science confirms that human life begins at conception and that up to birth there is no other stage of development at which the human child becomes a human being. Medical science is unanimous in upholding the belief that  the child is a unique and separate human being with its own blood group temporarily residing in its mother’s womb and in control of the pregnancy.

The Minister of Justice, in a response of 23rd August 2021 to Right to Life under the Official Information Act, had advised that he does not have any scientific or other evidence which states that the unborn child does not become a human being until it is born.

Right to Life believes that the Minister does not believe the fiction which he is instructed  to uphold in order to justify the killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children in New Zealand each year, authorised and funded by this government.

Right to Life asked the Minister of Justice under the Official Information Act on 3rd October 2021:-

  • Is it your policy to accept that section 159 upholds a legal fiction that is contrary to medical science?
  • Is it your policy to accept that the unborn child until birth is not a human being?

The Minister responded on 22nd October, 2021, he advised that he was declining our request under section 18[g] of the Act on the grounds that,” the information requested is not held by me or by my office.”

Right to Life will continue to campaign for the urgent repeal of section 159 of the Crimes Act, it is untenable for the Minister to continue to defend section 159 which sustains the legal fiction that the unborn child is not a human being until it is born.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

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