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Is the government guilty of hate speech?

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Media Release 8 January 2021

Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and her government are guilty of hate speech. Under the guise of promoting women’s rights, the government is guilty of promoting hate speech against vulnerable women and their precious unborn children.

There is no other group of human beings in New Zealand who are more subject to hate speech and violence than our own women when pregnant with a child in the womb. It was our own Prime Minister, who is a loving mother, declared in 2017 that it was not a crime to kill an unborn child and that killing the child was “a reproductive choice for women.” It was the Prime Minister who voted against every amendment to the abortion bill to provide protection for women and her child. She voted against pain relief for the baby being killed, palliative care for a child born alive in an abortion, sex selection abortions and retaining the 20 week limit for killing children with Down syndrome or other disability.  

The Ardern government has actually enshrined hate speech in legislation. The anti–feminist and anti-life Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is the embodiment and epitome of hate speech in that discriminates and incites violence against vulnerable women and their defenceless unborn children.

What could be more hateful than to tell woman with child:-

That your child is not a human being until it is born.

That it does not have a right to life.

That it has no value and has no right to the protection of the State.

That you have a right to kill your child up to birth and that we will pay for it.

It is unbelievable that the government is committed to passing legislation that will restrict freedom of speech by making it a crime to express an opinion on important social issues. Right to Life believes that it is the government’s intention to classify as hate speech, opposition to the killing of the unborn, defence of the right to life, opposition to the killing of the vulnerable with assisted suicide and euthanasia and defence of marriage as being exclusively one man and one woman.

In New Zealand, Labour’s 2020 election manifesto stated that “Labour will extend legal protections for groups that experience hate speech, including for reasons of religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation, by ensuring that we prohibit speech that is likely to incite others to feel hostility or contempt towards these groups under the Human Rights Act 1993.”

There is no other group in New Zealand that is more subject to government orchestrated hate speech and violence than our own unborn children and their mothers. If the government is really serious about hate speech, it will repeal the hateful and destructive  Abortion Legislation Act and replace it with legislation that expresses love for both mother and child by protecting the life of the child.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Pro-Life Champion Nina Barry Martin 4 October 1926 – 23 May 2020

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It is with great sorrow that the executive of Right to Life joins with the pro-life movement in New Zealand to mourn the passing of Nina Barry- Martin.

Nina was one of the founders of Pregnancy Counselling Services in New Zealand. Nina founded Pregnancy Counselling Services after becoming disillusioned with Youth Lines nondirective counselling and Pregnancy Help, which focused on helping women facing an unplanned pregnancy by supporting women in the decision that they made, which included abortion. Nina commendably was dedicated to saving babies and women from the violence of abortion. Nina said, “because we save two people with every pregnancy: mother and baby.”

Nina launched her new service by placing one advertisement in a newspaper, which was all she could afford. This advert was instrumental in saving the life of a baby and a mother from a lifetime of grief and sorrow. The child saved went on to become a PCS counsellor, to become a lawyer and to marry and have five children. There will be many other people who are alive today because of the loving support and counselling provided by Nina and her colleagues.

Nina, with her friends and supporters, expanded the counselling service to cover 24 hours a day, for seven days a week, with a trained counsellor always available to offer compassionate help to distressed pregnant women . PCS at its peak had 23 branches.

Nina’s love for women and their precious unborn was not confined to New Zealand. Nina was invited to present  an address to a pro-life conference at the Vatican. Nina also went to Hong Kong, India and the Philippines to help establish a pregnancy and post abortion service.

Nina was born in Palmerston North in 1926, the only child of Lebanese parents Marie and Basil Coury. Nina had a beautiful voice and after winning a singing competition on the Manawatu radio at the age of 12 went on to sing on national radio to present a programme about her favourite composer, Johann Strauss.

Nina served on the board of PCS for 40 years and retired in 2011. Nina enjoyed the loving lifelong support of her husband Peter who shared her passionate love for mothers distressed with their pregnancy and for their precious unborn. Peter was a distinguished past national President of the National Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child.

Right to Life was privileged to have Nina as a patron. Those of us who were privileged to know Nina were greatly encouraged by her love, dedication, passion and commitment to the wellbeing of mothers and the unborn.

We can contemplate with awe the grand reception from choirs of aborted unborn children that awaited Nina after a lifetime of service to women and the unborn as she commenced her eternal life.

Ken Orr

On behald of Right to Life Executive

 

 

 

Parliamentary Bill for Bereavement Leave Following Miscarriage Should Include Abortion.

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Media Release 18 August 2018.

Right to Life commends Ginny Andersen MP, for her Private Members Bill, Holidays [Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage] Amendment Bill that recognises the grief of mothers who have lost a child through miscarriage. This important Bill is awaiting its first reading.

 Right to Life encourages every MP to support the Bill at its first reading in order that it may be sent to a Select Committee, this will allow the community to make written submissions on the Bill for the consideration of the Committee.

 Right to Life is disappointed that the Bill does not include women who have tragically lost a child through abortion. Every child lost before birth is a tragic loss and a cause of suffering and grief for the mother. It is imperative that government, Parliament and the community, recognises the immense and lifelong loss of these mothers.  

Ginny Anderson claims that the loss of a child through abortion is controversial because it has been chosen by the mother. Right to Life challenges this assertion, this is a cruel deception perpetrated by advocates for abortion led by the Family Planning Association who claim that it is a women’s right to choose and that abortion is the most frequent procedure performed on women and is fourteen times safer than childbirth. They reluctantly concede that women may experience “relief, anger, regret, guilt, sadness but these feelings may come and go.” They do not admit that many women suffer a lifetime of guilt, regret and sadness at the loss of a precious child. American studies reveal that sixty per cent of women having an abortion are coerced by others, often the father of the child.

There is a tremendous sadness and loneliness in the cry, a woman’s right to choose. No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice-cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg.

Right to Life recognises that it will be extremely difficult and politically incorrect for the government of Jacinda Ardern to support the inclusion of women who have suffered the loss of a child by abortion in this Bill. It would seriously undermine the determination of the Prime Minister and her government to change the law on abortion to make it a “reproductive choice for women” and to make the killing of the unborn child a health issue and not a crime.

The last thing the government wants to do is to admit that abortion not only kills innocent and defenceless unborn children but wounds and hurts vulnerable women. The inclusion of abortion in this Bill will recognise that women are frequently coerced and subject to violence to seek an abortion and are suffering the loss of their child. A woman’s choice for the killing of her unborn child is a cry for help.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Abortion–A Health Service it is Not

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Hon Tony Ryall,

Minister of Health,

Dear Mr Ryall

Termination of Pregnancy Services – A Health Service

I wish to express our Society’s concern at the terminology used to convey abortions in New Zealand. It is the practice of abortion providers to refer to the provision of abortions as a Termination of Pregnancy Service, it is also a core health service. This terminology is misleading and the classification of the killing of pre-born children as a core health service is offensive to many in the community.

The dictionary states that a service is an act of help or assistance. It also states that this is something needed by the public and to which they are entitled.

Right to Life is opposed to the terminology used to promote abortion for the following reasons:

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Sunday Star Times Slanders Right to Life

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The Sunday Star Times in its latest edition makes a slanderous and libellous attack on Right to Life. In a article written by Marika Hill, titled  “Family Planning Association’s  charity status comes under fire .” The leading sentence reads:

“Anti-Abortionists are taking aim at the charity status of the Family Planning Association in their latest assault against women and pro-choice organisations.”

It is disappointing when New Zealand’s premier weekend newspaper descends to making  a libellous attack on  a national organisation that is committed to:

  • seeking protection for the health and welfare of women facing an unplanned pregnancy.
  • upholding the right to life of every person from conception to natural death.
  • Seeking legal recognition of parental rights.

The real war on women is abortion. This libellous accusation is a diversion for the real war on women which is being conducted by Family Planning.

  • In September 2012 the Association called for a national campaign to decriminalise abortion. The Association wants to remove all legal protection for the right to life of unborn children who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family.
  •   It is always wrong to kill the innocent and the Association wants to change the law so that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child. The Association believes that a woman has the right to kill her child for any, or no reason, up to birth. 
  • The Association wants to ignore the findings of the Royal Commission that found in 1977, that human life begins at conception and that unborn children deserved respect and the protection of the law.
  • The Association is an affiliate with the International Planned Parenthood Federation approves and supports the Chinese government’s one child family policy, with forced abortions and sterilisations.

We challenge Family Planning to advise how many women considering an abortion in 2012:

  • Did the Association assist to place their child for adoption?
  • Did the Association assist in bringing their child to birth?
  • Did the Association authorise an  abortion?

It is not an attack on women to expose the real war on women being conducted by Family Planning and the damage that is being done to our community. We will continue  to lobby Parliament for the defunding of more than $11 million per year and to be a strong vocal advocate for families and for women and their unborn children.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life.

The Real War On Women Is Abortion

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The following post is a media release from Family Life International, Auckland.

The Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (ALRANZ), yesterday called for abortion to be decriminalised in New Zealand, making access to abortion available to all and without having to meet criteria.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v Wade case in the United States which legalised abortion throughout pregnancy in that country. ALRANZ has used this anniversary to call for the same decriminalisation here. ALRANZ claimed that Roe v Wade gave women a right to privacy and access to safe and legal abortions.

"If Roe v Wade made abortion safe in the US, why is it that there are so many reports of botched abortions, deaths and dirty clinics with dodgy staff? The women and girls who suffer terrible complications and even die while under going a so-called safe and legal abortion would speak differently on this." Mrs Colleen Bayer, National Director of Family Life International NZ said.

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