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13,257 unborn children murdered by State in 2021

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Media Release 29th October 2022

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was the enthusiastic architect of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, that allows the killing of the unborn up to birth.

Killing innocent and defenceless children in the sanctuary of their mother’s womb is no longer a crime, it is a health service. The government upholds the legal fiction that the unborn child is not a human being and does not become a human being until it is born.

The Acting Director General of Health, Dr Diana Sarfati, who presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand was pleased to provide her first annual report on the state funded killing of our unwanted children. She stated in the forward to her report:-

“It is my pleasure to present the Abortion Services Aotearoa New Zealand: Annual Report for 2022.

I would like to acknowledge the many people working across the abortion services sector. Thank you for your dedication, expertise, and care.

It is incredibly humbling to see the important work providers and the teams within Manat? Hauora (the Ministry of Health) are undertaking.

We’ve seen real positive changes for abortion care over the past year. Improvements and innovations have resulted in a better care pathway and increased access in more locations.”

Right to Life respectfully asks Dr Sarfati, how can you derive pleasure in reporting on the violent killing of 13,257 unborn New Zealand children and this violence against your fellow women? How can you commend your colleagues who support you in facilitating the killing of the innocent? You have a sacred duty to protect the lives of every member of our community from conception to natural death. Why should we trust you to protect our lives when you refuse to protect the lives of the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family?

The Ministry of Health, which presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand, has released the statistics for the number of children killed by the State in 2021. The total number of children killed was 13,257, eleven more than the 13,246 killed in 2020.

New Zealand abolished the death penalty for rapists and murderers in 1961. We have retained capital punishment for the unborn for the crime of being unwanted. This is a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity. The killing of the innocent and defenceless unborn is supported by the Labour government. It also has the support of the National Party, ACT, the Greens and the Maori Party.

The government funded killing of the unborn is also supported by the media and by the silence of the majority of Churches, who should be at the forefront in defending the life of God’s precious infants. Why is there a deafening silence?

Some of the Statistics reported on are;

  • 13,257 abortions were performed in New Zealand in 2021, up from 13,246 in 2020.
  • There were 1,470 babies killed in Canterbury in 2021, 142 less than the 1,612 killed in 2020
  • 18.% of known pregnancies ended in an abortion in 2021. That is nearly one pregnancy in five ending with abortion.
  • A third of abortions were repeat abortions.
  • 43.8% of abortions, up 5% in 2021, were early medical abortions, performed up to 10 weeks gestation. 53.5% , up 5% , were surgical abortions.
  • 64%  of women who had abortions in 2021 were not using contraception at the time of conception
  • 24.7% of all abortions were for those identifying as M?ori in 2021,18% were for  Pacific peoples, 20% were Asian and 48% were European.
  • Right to Life is delighted to learn that 18 abortion providers reported that more than 300 women changed their decision to have their child killed and chose life. Right to Life applauds these noble and courageous women.

Right to Life grieves with those women who have lost their precious child through abortion. They and their child deserved better than abortion. We also grieve with those fathers who were unable to save their child from being killed. Right to Life also commends those courageous women who chose life for their child in 2021.

The abortion industry poisons, suctions unborn children from the womb and violently dismembers an estimated 36 unborn children each day. Children may now be killed up to 20 weeks gestation for any reason and up to birth if a doctor considers it “appropriate”.

Right to Life is committed to work with the pro -life movement to work for the repeal of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and for legislation that recognises the unborn child as a human being endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Anzac Day – Lest We Forget

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‘Mother and protector of the nation’s unborn?’

Media Relase Anzac Day 25th April 2019

We must never forget the sacrifices that they made in order that future generations may live in freedom and enjoy our inalienable right to life. Throughout our nation there are monuments commemorating their sacrifice, which today we remember.

It is an illusion however that we are now living in peace and are free from war. Today we are engaged in another bloody war, not with a foreign aggressor but in a war against a new enemy, our own children. Why do we feel threatened by our own children in the womb, who are the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family? Pregnancy is not a disease, or an enemy, so again we must ask why has the womb become a battleground more violent than Gallipoli?

Since the passing of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act in 1977, there have been more than 500,000 children killed in the womb in New Zealand. The total number of New Zealanders killed in overseas conflicts, since the Boer War total 96,241. These children were deemed to be unwanted, of little worth and their existence a problem. They are unnamed, worthy only of being a number in our abortion statistics. No tombstone marks their last resting place. Their mortal remains deemed to be medical waste to be incinerated in the same callous manner as the disposal of the Jews after slaughter at Nazi extermination camps during the Second World War.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her Labour led government are now passionately committed to accelerating this war against our own children. She is at the helm of a move to change our laws. In effect this is nothing other than a deliberate and blatant ploy to decriminalse murder of our most vulnerable and to coerce women into believing that killing their unborn children is not only ‘healthcare’, but that to do so is their ‘right’.

The Prime Minister is further committed to leading us down a road which embraces death being a solution to our problems, by supporting and voting for the End of Life Choice bill. A pernicious bill that if passed, would threaten the right to life of the elderly, the disabled and the seriously ill. It would empower doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide and confuse the vulnerable young by promoting suicide as a solution to life’s problems.

The war against women and the unborn has the full approval of this government and previous governments, who have ensured unlimited funding of the killing is designated a core health service. Its true horror has been disguised, by calling it an “essential medical service”, and a “reproductive choice for women”.

These children were not a threat to society; they came bringing gifts to enrich us all. All that they sought was to be allowed to love and to be loved. This internecine war is also one waged against women, who are its second victims. We should also mourn with all those fathers who have been unable to save their children from a violent death. 

New Zealand will continue to grow in violence and never know true peace, nor can we claim to be a just society, while we continue making war against our own children and consider legislation that would allow the state to empower doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide. The governments proposals are an affront to the sacrifices made by brave New Zealand men and women who gave their lives to defend and protect all New Zealanders from conception till natural death.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Why is the government proposing to disguise capital punishment for our unborn as “health care”?

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twins in wombRight to Life is opposed to the proposal of the Labour led government to decriminalise abortion and promote capital punishment for the unborn as “a reproductive choice for women.”

Capital Punishment and abortion have the manifest similarity that both concern the deliberate and state-sanctioned ending of life, which is why both are
controversial issues.

Capital punishment for murder was removed from the statute books in 1961, it has been retained only for treason. There was a total of 85 convicted criminals executed in New Zealand  between 1842 and 1957.  But New Zealand still retains the death penalty for its unwanted unborn children. Since 1977, the government has presided over the execution killing of more than 500,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children who were found guilty of being “unwanted.” Being an unwanted unborn child is a capital offence in New Zealand and such children are subject to the death penalty.

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Pro Life Bulletin 375 – David Seymour’s Bill

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Euthanasia is Killing – Letter to Christchurch Press

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Editor,

The Press.

Dear Sir

Euthanasia is Killing

In reply to Diederic Ruarus, 24 March, the Dutch government’s Remmelink Report in 1991 found that 49,000 of the 130,000 deaths in the Netherlands each year entailed a doctor terminating the life of a patient by withholding treatment, discontinuing life support through medication to hasten death. Only 60% of doctors kept record of euthanasia cases and only 29% completed death certificates honestly. Thousands of deaths were without the patients knowledge or consent. Canadian professor of law and medicine at McGill University, Margaret Somerville, has said "…strict guidelines or no, legalized euthanasia has less to do with "unbearable suffering" than with institutionalizing murder in the medical profession."  In 30 years Holland has moved from assisted suicide to euthanasia, of those who are chronically ill, for those with mental illness,  psychological distress or mental suffering, and from voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia or as the Dutch prefer to call it "termination of the patient without explicit request.”

Yours sincerely

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life,

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