Maori women

Government encouraging Maori to kill preborn – is this part of accepted Maori culture?

April 2, 2022 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 2 April 2022

Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up for the voiceless. We will never accept that the killing of God’s precious infants is part of Maori culture or of any other culture, it is part of a culture of death and has no place in a culture of life.

Right to Life is concerned that the government is endeavouring to deceive Maori into believing that the killing of unborn children is an important part of Maori culture and that prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there was no stigma or shame associated with abortion and that it was the right of Maori women to exercise autonomy over their bodies with the right to choose to kill their unborn child. Right to Life believes that the government is seeking to make lies acceptable and murder respectable.

This information is being given to abortion providers by the Ministry of Health in the document, New Zealand Aotearoa Abortion Clinical Guideline in appendix A, Abortion & Maori, to help them to encourage Maori to accept abortion as an important part of their culture.

The Ministry of Health states: ”After 1840, the colonising process put an end to the self-determining right of Maoori to control their reproductive health and initiate an abortion. As a consequence, whanau, hapu and iwi knowledges about initiating abortions were subjugated. Maori have been deprived of these knowledges for more than 200 years.”

“The Abortion Legislation Act 2020, in combination with the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, provides whanau, hapu and iwi with the opportunity to revitalise their older knowledges and practices for abortion. The intention is for Maori, in the context of abortion, to enact their rangatiratanga or self-determining rights and mana motuhake or autonomy over their bodies and their reproductive health and wellbeing.”

The Ministry presumably regrets that with the Treaty of Waitangi and acceptance of rule by the Crown, abortion eventually became illegal. Protection for the right to life of unborn Maori was now afforded by the Crimes Act. The government is now shamefully apologising to Maori for the imposition Christianity, civilisation and respect for unborn life on them, allegedly in violation of their culture.

Missionaries taught that the killing of innocent unborn children was intrinsically evil and violated the Fifth commandment of our Creator, Thou shalt not kill. If the government believes that it is going to remove the shame and stigma of abortion they are wrong. There should be a total prohibition of the taking of the lives of innocent human beings.

In 2020 there were 13,246 abortions reported in New Zealand. The total of abortions on Maori women totalled 2,875.The government is committed to making abortion more accessible and acceptable to Maori.

Right to Life believes that it is shameful for the government to seek to seduce vulnerable Maori women into violating their conscience by killing their precious child in the womb under the pretext that it was accepted by their ancestors as part of their culture.

The government believes,” that the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, in combination with the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, provides whanau, hapu and iwi with the opportunity to revitalise their older knowledges and practices for abortion.”

Right to Life requests the government to not promote the falsehood that the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which permits abortion up to birth, will reinforce a pre-European Maori culture by encouraging more Maori babies to be murdered before they are born.

Right to Life is committed to being a voice for the voiceless and we will not be silenced in defence of wahine (Maori women) and their precious unborn.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

Is the Government really serious about child poverty in New Zealand?

May 22, 2021 by Admin Leave a Comment

Media Release 22 May 2021

The Labour government’s 2021 “wellbeing budget” is an historic budget, for never before has a government budgeted for more money for the killing of New Zealanders under the guise of health care.

Right to Life believes that those who kill the unborn and the very sick do not have a right to govern or to sit in our Parliament. The first duty of the state is to uphold the sanctity of life and protect the life of every human being from conception till natural death.

Right to Life also believes that the community should be aware that hidden in the “wellbeing budget” is continuing funding for the killing of the unborn as an essential service and for the terminally ill with assisted suicide and euthanasia.

The government is encouraging us to believe that it is concerned for children living in poverty. Right to Life commends the government for increasing benefits, with the laudable objective of lifting up to 33,000 children out of poverty but asks, how can you really be concerned about children when you callously fund, in the same budget, for the state funded killing of more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children?

Why does the government not realise that the ultimate child poverty is to be deprived of your life when you are unborn?

Is it not a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity for the government to authorise and fund the violent killing of our own children?

The Hon. Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance, has allocated to the Minister of Health, Hon Andrew Little :-

$5 million for the “purchase of services” for the killing of the unborn and for transfer of oversight and monitoring from Justice to Health.
$11 million for the implementation of assisted suicide and euthanasia and for health sector info systems and advice.
Considerable funding will also be provided to the new national Maori Health authority to ensure that Maori have full access to abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

This is in addition to the more than $13 million expended on the killing of unborn children in NZ by abortion.

It is disappointing that the news media are applauding the government for this budget which promotes a culture of death, under the guise of a culture of life.

The Prime Minister stated on 12 September 2020:-

“I’ve made no secret of the fact that I want New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child. It’s an aspiration I’ve held for a long time. It’s one of the reasons I entered politics back in 2008.”

Right to Life asks how can New Zealand be the best place in the world when the government approves and supports the funding of the killing each year of more than 13,000 unborn New Zealand children, who are violently poisoned, sucked from their mother’s wombs or brutally and painfully dismembered?

Ken Orr

Spokesperson

Right to Life

Is the government serious about Maori Health?

April 21, 2021 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 21 April 2021

Right to Life commends the government for its concern for Maori health.

The government has announced the creation of the Maori Health Authority to focus on improving the health and lives of Maori.

Right to Life believes that the new Maori Health Authority will be used by the government to promote the killing of Maori children before birth under the guise that this is health care and in accordance with the Crown’s obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi.

Today the greatest threat to the life and health of Maori is in their mother’s womb. Respect for Maori begins in the womb. If the government is serious about protecting the health of Maori it will institute a health strategy that recognises that the Maori unborn child is the weakest and most defenceless member of the family deserving of respect and protection.

How can the government claim to be concerned about Maori health when it refuses to recognise the right of the Maori unborn child to be born?

The leading cause of death for Maori is abortion. There were 3,001 Maori unborn children killed before birth in 2019. There were 16,788 Maori births in 2019 with the abortion rate being nearly one abortion for every five live births.

These deaths were preventable, since the government was elected in 2017, more than 9,000 unborn Maori children have been killed, authorised and funded by the government that is committed to “kindness”, as they were by previous National governments.

The government has appointed the Hon, Peeni Henare as the Associate Minister of Health [Maori Health] responsible for the Maori Health Authority.

Right to Life is disappointed that the Minister, who claims to be a Christian, believes in the “sanctity of life” but also believes 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. He voted for the anti-life Abortion Legislation Act.

Right to Life is concerned that the Hon Dr. Ayesha Verrall, Associate Minister of Health, responsible for ensuring that the Ministry of Health seeks innovative ways to deliver abortion services especially to Maori, Pasifika and young people.

Right to Life believes that if the government were really concerned for Maori health they would be providing more support for young women facing an unplanned pregnancy to help them choose life for their precious child with parenting and adoption the loving option.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, in March, 2019 stated:-” One of our goals and aspirations as a government is to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child.”

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, How can New Zealand ever be the best place to be a child when you believe:-

That it is not a crime to kill an unborn child?

That killing a child in the womb is health care?

That the unborn can be killed up to birth effectively for any reason?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Government Normalising and Encouraging Maori and Pasifika Abortions

March 25, 2021 by Philip Leave a Comment

Media Release 25 March 2021

Right to Life is concerned that the Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall is committed to making the killing of Maori and Pasifika unborn children more accessible and convenient. Why does the Minister believe that she can help Maori and Pasifika women by making the state funded killing of their children more accessible? Is this the best that the government of Jacinda Ardern, can do for Maori and Pacifica women?

The Minister said,” taking abortion out of the Crimes Act and making it a health service meant pathways to the clinic were far more normal, removing the stigma.” The Minister is deceiving women by trying to normalise the killing of children. Right to Life believes that calling abortion a “health service” is hate speech as it is deeply offensive and insulting to women. When will the government cease using hate speech? It is not possible to remove the stigma associated with the taking of the life of another innocent human being.

She said,” there needed to be innovative ways to deliver abortion services to women and support the health practitioners involved.”

Why does she believe that she and the government are providing a service to Maori and Pasifika by encouraging young women to kill their children before they are born?

If the government really cared about Maori and Pasifika women they would recognise the humanity of the unborn child endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life. The government should be providing support and encouragement to young Maori and Pacifica women to choose life for their precious child.

If the government were really concerned for the health and welfare of young women, they would be encouraging parenting, open adoption and fostering. There is not one word of encouragement from the Minister to encourage young women to choose life for their child. This government is doing absolutely nothing to promote adoption. Why does the government that promotes kindness prefer funding the killing of the child to promoting the child’s adoption into a loving home?

If the government was really concerned about young Maori women, the Minister would also be promoting solutions to the disturbingly high perinatal and maternal mortality rates that are a cause of pain for Maori. It would also be taking steps to reduce the high rate of suicide among Maori.

As a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Dr. Verrall is aware that the unborn child from conception is a human being and a patient that deserves respect and protection , why then is there not one mention of the unborn child in her programme?

The government arrogantly defied public opinion and removed the killing of the defenceless unborn child from the Crimes Act and made it a health service. The government did this in spite of the overwhelming opposition from the community. There were 25,000 written submissions, with 91.6 per cent opposed to abortion being taken out of the Crimes Act.

The violent killing of a defenceless and innocent unborn child has been a crime since the beginning of the human race. It will always be a crime, a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity that cries out to God for justice. The government can make as many laws as it likes, we and our children will never ever accept that the killing is now a “health service.”

Is the government concerned that the number of Maori babies killed before birth in 2018 was 2,979 having fallen from 4,250 in 2008, why else would they want to create increased access to abortion and want to encourage young Maori women to seek an early medical abortion up to nine weeks, for any reason in their own home, away from medical supervision?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life