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Anzac Day – Lest We Forget

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“Mother and protector of the nation’s unborn?”

Media Release  25th April 2020

Even the pandemic is not permitted to stop the war against our own unborn. The violent killing of children is prioritised as “an essential service”. We have to ask if our fallen war heroes died in vain?

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, their mothers too are victims of this war. 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. 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 have now accelerated this war against our own children. She was the architect of the Abortion Legislation Act which has imposed on the unborn, the status of enemy and a threat to national security. Now who may be killed up to 20 weeks for any reason and up to birth if two medical practitioners consider it ‘appropriate’.

In effect this was nothing other than a deliberate and blatant ploy to decriminalise the 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 killing being a solution to our problems. By supporting and voting for the End of Life Choice bill and the referendum that if passed she poses a threat to right to life of the elderly, the disabled and the seriously ill. This 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.

Peace starts in the womb. 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 support a referendum that would allow the state to empower doctors to kill their patients or assist in their suicide.

The government’s 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. Our community would honour the sacrifices made in war by repealing the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and voting against the End of Life Choice bill at the referendum.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Celebrating World Down Syndrome Awareness Day

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Media Release 22nd March 2020

This week the New Zealand Parliament passed the government’s Abortion Legislation Bill which allows for the murder of unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome up to birth.

The architect of this murderous legislation was the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern who believes that women have a right to kill their unborn children, including those with Down syndrome up to birth.

Right to Life shares the fears of the Down community that with the passing of the extremist anti-life Abortion Legislation Act that the government’s campaign to eliminate babies before birth with Down syndrome will intensify.

Down syndrome awareness day, the 21 March was instituted by the United Nations in 2012. This year of 2020, the World Down Syndrome Day Theme is focuses on “We Decide”. All people with Down syndrome should have full participation in decision making about matters relating to, or affecting, their lives. Right to Life totally supports the inalienable right of those with Down syndrome to be consulted on what affects their lives. Why then does the government refuse to hear the pleas of the Down community for protection for the lives of those diagnosed with Down syndrome?

Right to Life believes that this government and previous governments instituted a search and destroy mission to eliminate Down syndrome not by remedying the condition but by eliminating the person with Down syndrome. The Down syndrome community are the most persecuted community in New Zealand. According to information provided by the Minister of Health under the Official Information Act. In 2017, there were only 47 children born with Down syndrome.  It is estimated that there were 56 babies with Down syndrome who were killed before birth in 2017. Between 2009 and 2017 it is estimated that 694 children with Down syndrome were killed before birth in abortions in New Zealand.

Prior to the third reading, 1,300 people with Down syndrome and their families sent an open letter entreating the Prime Minister to honour her public commitment to the Down community and the nation to retain the post 20 week prohibition of the termination of  babies with Down syndrome. The Prime Minister callously ignored that impassioned plea. The Down syndrome families also created the website Downright Discrimination.

The Abortion Legislation Committee actually made it very clear in their final report on page 28 that they opted to keep this new post-20-weeks provision in place in the Bill so that it could be used for disability-selective abortions up to birth. The Committee had ignored the submissions from the Down community and the 25,000 submissions with 91% being opposed to the decriminalisation of abortion and abortions for disability up to birth. Why did this specially appointed pro-abortion Committee ignore the pleas of the community for protection for the lives of our special Down syndrome children?

Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s creation that is endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life. The community should be outraged at the government’s legislation to permit this targeting and killing of children with Down syndrome up to birth. The Prime Minister and the majority of her caucus opposed an amendment that in the event that a child with Down syndrome is born alive following an abortion it was to be given appropriate medical care. This is a crime against humanity.
Right to Life will not be silent about this great betrayal of women, the unborn child and the disability community. We will not be quiet, we will not abandon the battlefield, nor will we rest until we achieve justice for women, the unborn child and those with Down syndrome.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

“Know Us By Our Deeds” – Indeed

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Media Release 29th February 2020

Parliament has duty to Protect Unborn Children and their Mothers from the violence of abortion.The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern states that we should “know us by Our Deeds”

The Prime Minister is correct, we do know her by her deeds. As our appointed leader she and her government’s most important duty is to protect the right to life of every New Zealander from conception to natural death. Those MPs who betray that duty forfeit their right to sit in our Parliament. At the next election she and her government will be judged on the way they have protected the most vulnerable in our community. Today the most vulnerable in our community are our unborn. Tragically today the most dangerous place for a New Zealander is in its mother’s womb.

Every day in New Zealand an estimated 35 unborn children in potentially normal pregnancies are taken to Public Hospitals and abortion clinics to be violently murdered, authorised and funded by her Labour led government.

The law of God is written in the hearts of man. It is the commandment of our Creator, that we should not kill. The total prohibition of the killing of an innocent human being is the foundation of the law and of medicine. We violate this commandment at our peril. Why then is it the wish of our Prime Minister that we pretend that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child? It is her wish supported by the Minister of Justice that the killing of a child in the womb be “a reproductive choice for women.”

This is a grave injustice, no government has authority to repeal a commandment of our Creator. The Prime Minister should be aware that she is in danger of calling down the wrath of God on our nation by challenging the authority of God.

Right to Life requests that  Members of Parliament uphold this commandment by defending the lives of our unborn children by voting against the anti-women and anti-life government Abortion Legislation Bill at its second reading.

There will be a general election in September and those Members of Parliament who choose to support the Abortion Legislation Bill at its second reading should expect many in the electorate to withhold electoral support for them.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

9 Year Old Speaks the Truth about Abortion – Video

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Kids inherently know the truth about abortion. Adults know it also, but many ignore their consciences and even deceive themselves about the brutal reality of this evil. The reason is because they place more value on their ability to live life on their own terms than accept responsibility for the life that they have created. Tragic for the child and themselves.

In this short video a nine year old New Zealand girl tells us the truth about abortion and Jacinda Ardern’s Abortion Legislation Bill, currently before Parliament. Will we listen or will we condem countless thousands more to a grisly violent death?

Jacinda Ardern has lost the trust of the nation

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“Our success as leaders should be judged on no lesser standard than the well-being of children.” Jacina Ardern

Media Release 28th September 2019

Right to Life with deep regret believes that our appointed leader Jacinda Ardern has forfeited her right to the trust of the people of New Zealand and her right to lead this nation. Those who govern do so with the permission of the governed. We the citizens of this nation have an inalienable right to demand that our leaders act with integrity and moral rectitude.

Jacinda Ardern pledged to provide openness and accountability in government and had it enshrined in the coalition agreement. Why then is she refusing to answer questions on statements she has made in public?

The first duty of our Prime Minister is to uphold the inalienable right to life of every member of our community from conception to natural death and not to preside over our destruction. In this she has failed.

Right to Life agrees with the Prime Minister when she said on 24 September 2018, “Our success as leaders should be judged on no lesser standard than the well-being of children.”

Jacinda Ardern has betrayed the disability community. In 2017 she made a promise to the disability community in response to concerns expressed by the Saving Down’s advocacy group that the new abortion bill would remove the current 20 week prohibition and allow abortions up to birth for foetal abnormality. The Prime Minister responded, “They have said till 40 weeks, which is wrong, which is wrong. We have time periods already set out in law, I am not proposing changes to that. I am proposing it comes out of the Crimes Act.”

Right to Life asks the Prime Minister why she has directed that the Abortion Legislation Bill allow for the killing up to birth, of children who may have a disability, including Down syndrome? The current abortion legislation under the Crimes Act allows for the killing of a child before birth up to 20 weeks “where there is a substantial risk that the child, if born, would be so physically or mentally subnormal as to be seriously handicapped.” Down syndrome is considered a mild to moderate disability and Right to Life therefore protests at the killing of any of these special children who are gift to the community.

The Down syndrome community are the most persecuted community in New Zealand. According to information provided by the Minister of Health under the Official Information Act, in 2017 there were only 47 children born with Down syndrome.  It is estimated that there were 56 babies with Down syndrome who were killed before birth in 2017. Between 2009 and 2017 it is estimated that 694 children with Down syndrome were killed before birth in abortions in New Zealand.

Right to Life wrote to the Prime Minister on 26 August and asked the following questions;

  • Why the Abortion Legislation Bill does not conform to the public assurance made by you to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks for foetal abnormality?
  • Do you agree that with the statement of the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, “I reject the notion that abortion entailed killing another human being and I accept on legal and on moral grounds that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible?”

The Prime Minister refused to answer and had her Correspondence Manager write to us on 3 September to say,”Thank you for writing to Jacinda, the matters that you raise have been noted.” Her response is deplorable and unacceptable.

The Prime Minister has failed the unborn children of New Zealand. Right to Life believes that Andrew Little’s appalling statement was made with the approval of the Prime Minister. We also contend that she believes that abortion does not kill a human being and that human rights do not assure until the baby is born. In holding this untenable and unjust position she has betrayed future generations of our children and their mothers. Her ardent promotion of her Abortion Legislation Bill is anti-life and anti-feminists.

Never before has New Zealand had a Prime Minister who is so antagonistic to women and their unborn.

Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

Poll Reveals Government has no Mandate to Impose Radical Abortion on our Nation

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Media Release 19th Sep 2019

The New Zealand government has no mandate to declare that abortion does not kill a human being with a right to life.

Neither does the government have a mandate to declare that abortion is not a crime and should be taken out of the Crimes Act.

Nor does the government have a mandate to declare that abortion is “a reproductive choice for women.”

A poll recently conducted by Curia Market Research on behalf of Right to Life reveals that the government has no mandate from the people of New Zealand to impose its radical Abortion Legislation Bill on the nation. The results emphatically reject the uninformed opinion of the Minister of Justice when he denied the humanity of the unborn child and its right to life. made in his address on the 8th August in presenting his radical anti-life Abortion bill. Andrew Little said;

“I reject the notion that abortion entailed killing another human being and I accept on legal and moral grounds that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible.”

The poll was conducted between Monday 26 August and Tuesday 10 September 2019. The sample population was aged 18 or older who were contactable by a landline or mobile phone. 1,000 respondents agreed to participate.

There were two questions asked, the first, “at what stage do you personally believe a fertilized egg becomes a human being. Choose from the following options?

At the time of conception when the egg is fertilised by sperm.
At the time of implantation when the embryo attaches to the womb.
At some point between implantation and birth.
At birth.

Results*

TimeCount%
Conception24825
Implantation14514
Between implantation & Birth26526
Birth11311
Unsure or refuse to answer23323
Total1004100

A total of 65% of the respondents believed that the unborn child became a human being between conception and prior to birth.

The second question was: – At what stage do you believe the human rights of the unborn child should be protected by New Zealand law? Answer from the following options;

At the time of conception when the egg is fertilised by sperm.
At the time of implantation when the embryo attaches to the womb.
At some point between implantation and birth.
At birth.

Results*

TimeCount%
Conception 16917
Implantation 9610
Between implantation & Birth 27728
Birth 15716
Unsure or refuse to answer 30530
Total1004100

A total of 55% of respondents believed that the human rights of the unborn child should be protected between conception and prior to birth. This refutes the proposal of the me Minister that abortion should be taken out of the Crimes Act.
The results of this poll are very similar to the results of a poll conducted in 1997 with the same questions on behalf of Right to Life.

Of those who had an opinion 51% believe that a fertilized egg becomes a human being at conception or implantation and 65% believe that the new human life becomes a human being between conception but before birth. This finding reveals that a substantial majority of New Zealanders oppose the opinion of the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, that abortion does not kill a human being.

Of those who had an opinion 77 percent believe that the human rights of the unborn should be protected by New Zealand law between conception but before birth. Again this finding reveals that the vast majority of New Zealanders oppose the opinion of the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern that our abortion laws should be liberalised.

*Note rounding of the firgues mean the percentages do not tally to exactly 100 percent.

Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life

                                                               

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