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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.

Vaccine Mandates unlawful and immoral

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Media Release 6 March 2022

Vaccine Mandates Unlawful and Immoral

 The law in New Zealand provides legal protection to everyone to exercise their informed conscience to refuse medical treatment. The government is violating our human rights by imposing a vaccine mandate on citizens with non- compliance being punished with loss of work and being excluded from society as second class citizens.

 This legal protection is found in the New Zealand Bill of Rights 1990 Section11 – Right to refuse to undergo medical treatment.

 Right to Life believes that the teaching of the Catholic Church upholds the supremacy of conscience. The Congregation of the Faith in a note dated 21 December 2020 on the morality of using some anti Covid-19 vaccines states:-

 “At the same time, practical reason makes evident that vaccination is not, as a rule, a moral obligation and that, therefore, it must be voluntary. In any case, from the ethical point of view, the morality of vaccination depends not only on the duty to protect one’s own health, but also on the duty to pursue the common good.”

Our conscience has been given to us by our Creator as His voice to direct us to do good and to avoid evil. A person has a serious moral obligation to obey his or her conscience.

Right to Life believes that the church’s teaching is clear, that as a rule vaccination must be voluntary and based on an individual’s personal assessment in good conscience of the medical risks/benefits and morality of a particular vaccine. This is imperative.

Right to Life believes that the government has violated our human rights that are protected under the code of patient rights in the Health and Disability Act 1996:

Right 1

The right to be treated with respect. We have not been treated with respect.

Right 2

The right to freedom from discrimination, coercion, harassment, and exploitation.

We have been coerced and harassed to accept the Pfizer vaccine.

Right 7

The right to make an informed choice and give informed consent.

We have been denied the right to give informed consent. We have not been advised that the long term potential complications of the Pfizer vaccine are not known and will not be known until the research is completed in 2023, nor have we been advised that the Pfizer vaccine is an experimental gene therapy medical treatment.

 The government is seeking to establish a very dangerous precedent. If we accept that the government has a right to override our conscience and free consent on what medical treatments we should be subject to and what drugs we allow to be put into our bodies, then a future government may mandate that women with an unplanned pregnancy subject themselves to taking lethal drugs to kill the child in her womb.

Right to Life requests that the government immediately cease violating our human rights by coercion, intimidation and mandating vaccines to combat Covid-19.The government should also make a commitment to purchase only vaccines that are not only safe, effective and available but are also ethically produced and tested without the use of cell lines developed from the organs of babies killed in late term abortions.

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.

Why are our church leaders silent when our human rights are under attack from the state?

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Media Release 8 December 2021

Right to Life believes that our spiritual leaders have a serious duty to speak up in defence of our human rights when they are being violated by the State.

Right to Life therefore asks why are our religious leaders remaining silent, when thousands of New Zealanders have been callously deprived of their right to work, because they refused to violate their conscience by allowing the state to vaccinate them against Covid-19?

The government considers that our freedom is a privilege to be granted by the state. It is also violating our freedom and human rights by imposing on the community vaccination passports that have created a segregated society.

Those with a passport are first class citizens granted full freedom and are to be protected from those who are unvaccinated, who are granted second class citizenship with severely restricted freedoms.

Right to Life supports voluntary vaccination, with ethically produced and developed vaccines, which are safe and effective. The long term adverse reactions to the Pfizer vaccine are not known as the study does not conclude till January 2023.

The Pfizer vaccine is not a proper vaccine, as it is an experimental gene therapy medical treatment. Pfizer is indemnified from accepting legal responsibility for any adverse reaction that might result from taking their “vaccine.”

Right to Life believes that our civil and individual rights should never be contingent upon a medical procedure. Every New Zealander should reject allowing the government to decide what medical procedures they must engage in to remain in employment.

On 20th September 2020 Jacinda Ardern was quoted as saying “Not only will there be no forced vaccinations, but those who choose to opt-out won’t face any penalties at all”.

 Protecting and safeguarding individual rights demands constant legal, social, and political struggle against government censorship, coercion, and mandates.

Right to Life questions why persons who refuse to take this experimental medical treatment are being treated as a serious public health threat, when those who are vaccinated are just as likely to carry and spread Covid virus as the unvaccinated.

Mandatory vaccinations violate the Nuremburg Convention, the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, which protects the right to life, the right to refuse medical treatment, and the right to practice one’s religion.

The Human Rights Act 1993 includes the right not to be discriminated against. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights protects the right to privacy.

Right to Life asks: “Why we should trust the government to protect the lives and health of the community when it authorises and funds the killing of more than 13,000 defenceless unborn New Zealanders every year” and is now funding the killing of the seriously ill in the community with assisted suicide and euthanasia?

Right to Life supports voluntary vaccination with ethically produced and developed vaccines which are safe and effective.  Right to Life requests that our spiritual leaders speak up urgently in defence of our human rights, currently under threat from a dictatorial government.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Family Planning – promoting a culture of death

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Media Release 1 September 2021

Right to Life is concerned that Family Planning in their war against women and their precious unborn children are seeking to deceive women into believing that the murder of the unborn child in a medical abortion is a miscarriage.

 Family Planning states on its web site that ”an early medical abortion brings on a miscarriage similar to a natural miscarriage.”

“Two medications are taken for an EMA. Usually, the medications are taken two days apart, but if the pregnancy is less than seven weeks (49 days) you may be able to take both medications on the same day.”

“Once you have taken the medication you go home to miscarry the pregnancy.”

Family Planning is seeking to deceive women into believing that a medical abortion is similar to a miscarriage, however it isn’t. The medical definition of a miscarriage is, ”spontaneous or unplanned expulsion of a fetus from the womb, before 20 weeks”.

To call an abortion a miscarriage is untrue and is deeply offensive to women who have experienced pain and grief from the tragic loss of a much loved and wanted baby.

Family Planning is at the forefront in promoting the killing of children in the womb who are unwanted. It supported the decriminalisation of abortion and the right of women to kill their baby for any reason up to birth. It does not recognise the humanity of the unborn child nor does it recognise the child’s right to life. It does not recognise the unborn child as a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation.

Family Planning is the major abortion referral agency in New Zealand.

In 2020, 246 unborn children were killed at its Tauranga clinic.

Family Planning is a loyal affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation [IPPF] that was responsible for the killing of more than one million unborn children in 2020. Planned Parenthood supports the forced abortion policy of the Chinese government.

The IPPF promotes worldwide a culture of death under the guise of promoting a “woman’s right to choose”,  but this is a lie. The IPPF and the NZFPA are complicit in the most horrendous human rights abuses against women that the world has ever known. The Chinese Family Planning Association became an affiliate of IPPF in 1983. The IPPF has funded the Chinese Family Planning Association and has cooperated with it in implementing China’s notorious one child family policy, which has now been relaxed.

China’s one child family policy started in 1979, and has resulted in forced abortions, 196 million compulsory sterilisations, the mandatory insertion of 403 million forced intrauterine devices, punitive fines, imprisonment, destruction of homes and loss of employment.

Sex selection abortions have resulted in 37 million missing girls. Since 1971 there have been 330 million abortions in China.

Right to Life challenges Family Planning to tell the women of New Zealand how the Association  can condone the massive human rights abuses against women in China and claim that they support a women’s right to choose to have a baby?

Right to Life asks, why does the government continue to fund IPPF and the NZFPA in its unrelenting war against women. Why too does the media refuse to expose the anti- life agenda of the NZFPA and treats Family Planning as the champions of women?

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Government an increasing threat to human rights?

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Media Release 15 August 2021

 Right to Life believes that the government of Jacinda Ardern is increasingly threatening our human rights. This is the most anti-life government that New Zealand has ever had.

 The first duty of government is to protect the right to life of every New Zealander from conception to natural death, it has failed to do this.

The government is threatening our human rights:-

With its anti-life Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which has denied the humanity and right to life of the unborn from conception until they are born. It is now no longer a crime to kill an unborn child up to birth.

This is violence against women and the defenceless unborn, It also undermines the dignity of women and motherhood.

With its support for the passing of the End of Life Choice Act 2019, which will allow, after 7th November 2021, doctors to kill their patients with a lethal injection or assist in their suicide. This is a threat to the lives of the elderly and the seriously ill.

  • Violating our right to free speech, assembly, communication and freedom of religion through its support of government policy incorporated in the contentious Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion [safe areas] Amendment bill of Louisa Wall MP, currently with the Health Select Committee.
  • Threatening the freedom of the media with $55 million funding with the requirement that it promotes the government’s agenda.
  • Potentially violating our right to free speech, with proposed hate speech laws, which may allow the government to decide what we may think and what we may say and potentially criminalise criticism of the government.
  • Attacking the traditional family of exclusively one woman and one man, with its promotion of the LGBTQI agenda which seeks to deny the truth that there are only two genders male and female, established at conception.
  • Challenging Family First’s charitable status in an appeal to the Supreme Court, that its advocacy for the traditional family does not serve the community.
  • Rejecting the 90 % of the 25,000 submissions made to the Abortion Legislation Select Committee which opposed its radical Abortion Legislation bill.
  • Rejecting the vast majority of the 39,159 submissions made to the Justice Select Committee opposing the End of Life Choice bill.

The government should realise that those who govern do so with the consent of the  governed.

The Prime Minister promised the nation following the general election in 2017, “that this would be the most transparent and accountable government New Zealand had ever seen”.

Right to Life believes that this government is neither transparent nor accountable and that the reality is an artfully crafted mirage.

The government is ignoring the will of the people that it is committed to serve, they will not forget.

 Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Is the government really serious about condemning Genocide?

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Media Release 6 May 2021

Parliament is commended for debating a resolution on serious human rights abuses including genocide by the Chinese Communist Party against the Muslim Uyghur people in China.

 Parliament unanimously passed a motion that declared that “severe human rights abuses are occurring against the Uyghur people.”

 Right to Life is disappointed that Parliament, in our view, readily recognises human rights abuses and genocide in China, but does not recognise that the New Zealand government has been vigorously conducting an organised campaign of genocide since 2010, against the unborn child diagnosed with Down syndrome, euphemistically called a “quality improvement program.”

The New Zealand government is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention was passed by the General Assembly on 9 December 1948.

Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Right to Life believes that the National government of John Key in 2010 adopted a screening program that was expected to destroy the most persecuted group in New Zealand.

This program of screening for Down syndrome and other disabilities was enthusiastically adopted by the government of Jacinda Ardern in 2017.

The National government of John Key instituted the “Antenatal Screening for Down Syndrome and other conditions – Quality Improvements” program.

This program was introduced by the Ministry of Health following advice from the Ministry’s National Screening Unit [NSU] without public consultation. Cabinet papers obtained under the Official Information Act state that the outcomes of the program will be a reduction in the number of births of people with Down syndrome, with around 90% of unborn children diagnosed with the condition being aborted. It is currently achieving 60% reduction.

The preventing of birth of a group of people falls within the definition of genocide under international law.

Documentation obtained under the Official Information Act from the Ministry of Health included the document Summary of Key Informant Interviews Antenatal Down Syndrome Screening Final Report which states : “The program will be cost beneficial for the population and the health system. The scan highlighted literature that supported the premise that the economic costs of screening outweigh the high costs associated with the long term care needs of an individual with Down syndrome.

This program discriminates against the disabled:-

Right to Life believes that this screening program constitutes genocide as it: “seeks the Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group,”

It is eugenics in promoting only the birth of the perfect.

It is a violation of the sanctity of life and a  crime against humanity.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Abortion Violates the Human Rights of the Unborn, mothers and also of fathers.

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Media Release 23 January 2021

Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, why have you denied the rights of fathers?  The Abortion Legislation Act imposed on our nation by your government violates the human rights of the unborn child, the mother and also of the father. Men and women have equal moral rights and duties and should have equal legal rights and duties.

The Prime Minister, the architect of this extreme anti-life Act claims that the killing of the child is “a reproductive choice for women.” Men also have reproductive rights, this Act deliberately ignores and discriminates against men. The Act attacks the family by denying that the father is the head of the family, its God appointed protector. This is a debate that is long overdue. 

The abortion law gives no recognition to the fact that the unborn child has a father, or that the father has rights. The child is not exclusively her child, it is their child.

It is the Creator’s plan for procreation, that fathers have the privilege and duty to protect both the mother and the child. How many of the more than 13,000 unborn children killed last year would have been saved if their fathers had been permitted to protect them. We can vividly imagine their plaintiff cries for their father’s protection which were not allowed to be heard, this is an unspeakable crime against humanity.

Fathers have no right to be informed that their child is to be violently killed, nor are they required to give consent.

It is an appalling violation of human rights for the government to prevent fathers from protecting the life of their child from being violently murdered.

It is also appalling that fathers are prevented from protecting the mother of their child from the violence of the murder of her child in the safety of her womb.

This extreme abortion legislation destroys the trust that should exist between men and women. How can a man trust a women to be the mother of his children when she alone is given the right to have the child killed effectively up to birth, without his knowledge or consent?

The government is incoherent when it rightly holds the father responsible for providing for the child after birth while denying any right to provide protection for his child before birth.

The Hon Andrew Little, in presenting the Abortion Legislation bill at its first reading told Parliament, “that we trust women.” The inference was that we do not trust men and we want to exclude them from pleading for the life of their defenceless child destined to a violent killing at the hands of a doctor under the guise that he is providing a government funded health service.

It is the intention of Right to Life to pursue this important human rights issue by lodging a formal complaint with the Human Rights Commissioner.

With more than 500,000 unborn children killed since 1978, It is time for the men of New Zealand to rise up and demand an end to the killing of their children, the repeal of this infamous abortion law and the infliction of violence on the mothers of their children.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Ministry of Health Denies Humanity of Unborn Child

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The Acting Deputy Director General of Health, Clare Perry, has advised Right to Life in response to an Official Information Act request that the term “unborn child” is not a scientific term and does not have a commonly accepted definition. Why is the Ministry trying to deny the humanity of the unborn child?

Our request was “what medical or biological evidence do you have to prove that the unborn child is not a human being with a right to life until it is born?”

The Ministry’s reply was: – “The information you are seeking in this case is not held by the Ministry and would need to be created in order to respond to your request.” 

The community have a right to know why the Ministry which now presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand is not prepared to acknowledge that the term unborn child is widely accepted, that human life begins at conception and that every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation. Why is the Ministry in denial about the humanity of the child when it has a long and commendable record of concern for the health and welfare of mothers and their precious unborn children? How can the Ministry dismiss the report of the Royal Commission stating that it is now 50 years old? The following findings were true in 1977 and are equally true in 2020.

In support of our request we provided information from the Royal Commission on Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion.

The Royal Commission on Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion, in its report to Parliament in 1977 stated that they had received expert biological evidence from around the world confirming that human life began at conception. The Commission also stated that: 

“the child from implantation has a status which entitles it to preservation and protection and that from implantation to birth, changes in the unborn child are of a developmental nature only. The three events suggested as being of significance, namely, quickening, viability and brain development, are no more than stages in that development and are not indicative of any qualitative changes in the developing child which would make it non-human at one point of time and human at another.”

The website of the Ministry encourages pregnant women to seek immunisation “against influenza Immunisation against influenza and whooping cough as it is important to help protect you and your unborn baby, and to pass your protection to your baby after they are born.”


“To avoid Covid 19 infection, after 28 weeks, pregnant women should take extra precautions and keep themselves well at a time when the growing baby means higher oxygen demands on the mother.”

The Ministry provides factual information on the development of the unborn child.

” At 7 weeks your baby is about 8 mm long from head to bottom. The brain is growing and the heart is beginning to beat. Ears, eyes, arms and legs are also starting to grow. Your baby will start to move, but you won’t be able to feel it yet.”

“Smoking, drinking alcohol and taking drugs during pregnancy should be avoided as it affects your baby and can cause health problems.”

Why does the Ministry acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child only when it is a wanted child and denies the humanity of those children who are unwanted and who are to be violently killed, in the words of the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, as “a reproductive health choice for women.”

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

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