Upholding the sanctity of Human life and Standing Up for the Vulnerable
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Right to Life vigorously challenges the unprecedented attempt by the Ministry of Health to regulate the language we use in relation to abortion. We make no apology for recognising that the unborn child is a human being and that abortion is the violent killing of a child, the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family.
Right to Life is opposed to censorship and the suppression of free speech which is a fundamental human right in a democratic society.
Right to Life, lodged the following Official Information request with the following question to the Ministry of Health on 26th January 2023.
“The names of the pharmacists who have indicated to your Ministry that they are prepared to dispense mifepristone and misoprostol for the purpose of killing an unborn child in a medical abortion”
The Ministry have rejected our request for the list of pharmacists. If the requested list had been provided, it was the intention of Right to Life to write to those pharmacists and respectfully submit that if they were prepared to dispense lethal drugs to kill an unborn child they would be violating their conscience and pharmaceutical ethics.
The Ministry responded on 13th February 2023. “The language and tone of your request lead us to question whether your request had been made in good faith. The wording “killing an unborn child” adds no value or context to the information being requested, however indicates hostility towards pharmacists who dispense mifepristone and misoprostol for the purpose of a medical abortion.
Right to Life challenges the Ministries assertions. We make no apologies to the Ministry for reminding them that they are presiding over the abortion industry in New Zealand. We will never change our tone and language to pretend that poisoning and sucking the unborn out of her mother’s womb or violently dismembering her is health care. Our requests are neither frivolous or vexatious.
We bear no hostility to pharmacists, but simply must point out that dispensing lethal drugs to kill unborn children violates the ethics of their profession and like all abortion providers makes them complicit in expanding the culture of death.
The government and the Ministry appear to be determined to supress those who are a voice for the voiceless and who refuse to accept the killing of our unborn children as “a reproductive health choice”
The Ministry, now named Manatu Hauora, warned us that it stands by their response and for future requests, we invite you to consider submitting requests in more appropriate terms. If you choose not to, we will consider whether it is necessary to refuse your request as frivolous or vexatious under section 18(h) of the Act.
Right to Life will now lodge a complaint with the Ombudsman to uphold our right to continue to seek information from the Ministry of Health, under the Official Information Act.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc
Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon is not a statesman, but a politician who is prepared to support and fund the war on women and the murder of innocent unborn children to attain political office.
Right to Life believes that all authority comes from our Creator and that the duty of Parliament is to protect the lives of every human being from conception to natural death. Parliament also has a duty to legislate for the common good and to promote a just society.
We believe Christopher Luxon is mistaken in seemingly holding the belief that he can uphold his integrity by separating his faith from his politics.
Christopher Luxon stated on Newshub on 1st December 2021, that “we have a separation of politics and faith, we should not be selecting an MP because of their faith. “On Radio NZ he said, ”I am not just here for one group or one interest or one topic.”
New Zealand was founded by men and women of faith who were enlightened and motivated by a strong Christian faith which sustained their belief in the sanctity of life of every individual and a just society.
Faith in our Creator informs us and ensures that we have an informed conscience to enable us to do good and to avoid doing evil. Christopher Luxon claims unconvincingly to aspire to emulate the outstanding example of William Wilberforce who devoted twenty years as an MP at Westminster campaigning for the abolition of slavery. Wilberforce was motivated by his strong Christian faith and his recognition of the sanctity of life of every human being, whether free or slave which permeated his politics. Never did he succumb to the falsehood proclaimed by his many political opponents that slavery was settled law.
Christopher Luxon states that he is not here for any group. Our unborn children are the most persecuted group in New Zealand. Today the most dangerous place for a New Zealander is in its mother’s womb. It is estimated that every day thirty-six children are poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or violently and painfully dismembered. This is an abomination that cries out to heaven for vengeance. Why is he not prepared to protect our unborn children?
How can Christopher Luxon seek to govern our country when his faith informs him that the killing of a defenceless unborn child is “murder” and that his politics tell him that it is a “health service,” which he promises to continue funding under any government that he leads? Abortion is no more a health service than were the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Why should we trust Christopher Luxon to govern us and protect our lives when he refuses to protect our precious unborn children?
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life
Right to Life encourages the churches, the pro-life and pro-women movement in New Zealand to work together to capitalise on the great victory provided by the US Supreme Court to stop the war and violence inflicted on women and their unborn in New Zealand; a war promoted and financed by Jacinda Ardern and her government.
Right to Life believes that the overturn of Roe v Wade will ultimately result in the recognition in the United States and in New Zealand of the humanity of the unborn child as a human being from conception and endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.
The decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade is not the end to abortion but it is the beginning of that end. The decision has brought a halt to in many states, the violent murder of the unborn . This has been a holocaust which has resulted in the killing of over 63,000,000 unborn children since 1973 and the terrible wounding of their mothers, the second victim of abortion. The impact of this has been wide and deep, cutting savagely into the psychological well-being of this nation and significantly impacting its demographics.
There are nineteen States that have passed legislation to outlaw the killing of the unborn and seven States that will severely restrict abortion. These States have legislation recognising that the unborn are human beings endowed with a right to life.
The American pro-life movement will now campaign for the Supreme Court to recognise that unborn children are human beings with a right to life entitled to the protection of the US Constitution’s amendments 5 and 14. When that historic moment arrives the killing of the unborn will be outlawed in every State.
The overturn of Roe v Wade will have important ramifications for the international community including New Zealand. The Labour government in passing the extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020 was influenced by the US Supreme Court’s 1973, Roe v Wade decision that there is a Constitutional right to abortion.
The Minister of Justice, Andrew Little claimed that under section 159 of the Crimes Act, “Killing of unborn child”, the unborn child was not a human being and did not have a right to life until it was born. This is a legal fiction is used by the government to justify the killing of unborn children, who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. The previous Minister of Justice when requested if he had evidence to proof that the unborn child was not a human being until born replied that he had no evidence. The new Minister of Justice Kiri Allan has also been asked and has declined to reply.
Science acknowledges that human life begins at conception. That new life is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation and that the child is a human being with a right to life. It is an intolerable injustice that the government continues to promote the cruel lie that abortion is a woman’s right to choose and that every woman has the right to kill her children before birth. Pregnancy is not a disease and abortion is not health care. The day is fast approaching when thanks to the overturning of Roe v Wade this orchestrated litany of lies will be silenced.
We need to show that we can create a world where we can love children and not kill them. A world where adoption is always a better option, a world where we care for women and their children. This is our opportunity to make the grisly performance of abortion like slavery unthinkable in a civilised modern society.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life
Media Release Saturday 2nd July 2022
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice”.
It is attributed to Dante, that “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality
Right to Life is disappointed that the leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon, who claims to be pro-life, has declared that, “I want women in New Zealand to have absolute certainty that when I am Prime Minister in a National government they know that our abortion laws are not going to be re-litigated or re-visited, that they know that funding for these services are going to be maintained”. He also stated,” I have a pro-life position but the reality is in New Zealand there is no need for us to change the laws”. This is not a pro-life position, it is aggressively promoting a culture of death and should be opposed.
Christopher Luxon stated last year on being elected leader that “abortion was tantamount to murder”.
Those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be trusted to govern those who are born. If the National Party is not committed to protecting the lives of defenceless unborn children, why should we trust them to protect our lives?
If Christopher Luxon believes that abortion is murder how can he in conscience concede to accept the murder of 64 unborn children each day, totalling more than 13,000 a year?
How can he say that,” there is no need to change the law”?
The message that he is giving to the women of New Zealand is, I know that abortion is violence against women and your precious unborn, however I am not prepared to defend you and protect you because it is now settled law.
Christopher Luxon looks up to William Wilberforce as his model who succeeded in 1807 after 20 years of campaigning as a Member of Parliament in Westminster to abolish the slave trade in England. Wilberforce was a man of deep Christian faith who allowed his faith to motivate his politics. Wilberforce recognised the dignity of every human being made in the image and likeness of God. He rejected the pro-slavery philosophy that slaves were not human beings and that it was the human right to choose to own slaves.
Abortion is the new slavery promoted like slavery as a human right. The cry now is that the unborn child is not a human being, it has no right to life and it is a human right for women to choose to kill their child before it is born.
Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon should now follow the example of Wilberforce and be a leader and a statesman in government campaigning against the violence of abortion inflicted on women and their unborn. He should recognise that human life begins at conception and that every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation endowed with an inalienable right to life. His faith should influence his politics by committing himself and his Party to the abolition of abortion. New Zealand desperately needs a statesman who is concerned for the next generation, not a politician who is concerned about the next election.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life N.Z. Inc.
Media Release 26 June 2022
The Prime Minister in supporting the unlawful Roe v Wade decision is supporting the previous forty-nine year reign of terror inflicted on American women and their unborn. A brutal reign which resulted in more than sixty-four million children killed before birth and sixty-four million women wounded.
Right to Life questions why the Prime Minister is misleading the community with ill-informed public statements on the important decision of the United States Supreme Court. Right to Life believes that she is conducting a campaign of misrepresentation to deceive the community into believing that women have a fundamental right to kill their children before they are born. Right to Life believes that she is trying to protect her own extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2019, which will now be subject to increased opposition.
The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is reported by Stuff as saying, that “the Supreme Court’s decision is incredibly upsetting.”
The Prime Minister claims millions of American women have lost the constitutional right to abortion. But there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States that upholds the ‘right’ to abortion.
Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister should be applauding the decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn the unconstitutional Roe v Wade decision of the Supreme Court in 1973, which took away the democratic right of States to legislate on abortion.
The Court has ruled that there is no right to abortion in the United States Constitution and have ruled in accordance with the Constitution that abortion should be returned to each individual State to legislate on this issue.
Why then is the Prime Minister upset that the democratic right of the citizens in each State to legislate to protect women and uphold the right to life of its unborn children is being upheld by the Supreme Court?
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life N.Z. Inc.
Media Release Saturday 25th June 2022
Right to Life welcomes the six to three decision of the United States Supreme Court to overturn the notorious Roe v Wade decision of 1973.
The overthrow of Roe Wade acknowledges the right of States to legislate to protect women from the violence of abortion and their unborn children from being killed before birth. There are 19 States that would ban abortion and 7 that would severely restrict abortion.
The Roe Wade decision written by Justice Harry Blackmun in 1973 constitutes one of the most unjust decisions ever made by the Court. It was badly decided, violated the Constitution of the United States, had no basis in the law or history of the United States or in English Common Law. International law is silent on abortion and there is no human right to abortion.
The Roe Wade decision unleased on the United States, a 49 year reign of terror of violence on women and their unborn. Since 1973 more than 64 million unborn children in the United States have been poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or been violently dismembered. This was a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity.
The overthrow of Roe v. Wade is a victory for a culture of life and a defeat for the culture of death. It recognises that the unborn child is a human being endowed with a right to life, deserving of respect and protection. The repercussions will reverberate throughout the world including New Zealand. This overthrow will herald a new age of respect for women and for their precious unborn, who are created in the image and likeness of their Creator.
Right to Life is committed to continue campaigning for legal recognition of the unborn child as a human being endowed with a right to life from implantation and for the repeal of the extremist anti-life Abortion Legislation Act 2020.
“We need to show that we can create a world where we can love children and not kill them. A world where adoption is always a better option, a world where we care for women and their children. This is our opportunity to make the grisly performance of abortion like slavery unthinkable in a civilised modern society”.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life N.Z. Inc.
A culture of death is corrupting the Ministry of Health and will ultimately destroy it and our community if it is not urgently eradicated.
Dr Diana Sarfati has been appointed by the Deputy State Services Commissioner and will be the temporary Director General of Health at the end of July.
Right to Life is disappointed that Dr Sarfati believes that every woman has a right to kill her child before it is born and that her child is not a human being with a right to life until it is born. Right to Life believes that her views on the sanctity of life disqualify her from appointment as Director General of Health.
Right to Life believes that the Deputy State Services Commissioner has, in making this appointment, given Professor Sarfati a poisoned chalice. Should she accept this appointment she will become complicit in the killing of the weakest and most defenceless members of our community.
The appointment of Director General entails being responsible for overseeing the administration of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and presiding over the war against women. A war which kills more than 13,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children every year by either poisoning them, sucking them out of their mother’s womb or violently pulling off their limbs and heads. This is promoted and funded by the government as “health care”. This is an atrocity!
Since the 7 November 2021, with the introduction of the End of Life Choice Act 2019, this position also entails being responsible for overseeing and promoting doctors killing terminally ill patients with a lethal injection or assisting in their suicide. This also is promoted by the government as “health care”.
The total prohibition against the killing of innocent human beings is the foundation of the law and of medicine. We ignore this prohibition at our peril.
The Ministry of Health should be totally committed to promoting a culture of life by protecting the sanctity of life of every human being from conception to natural death. There is absolutely no place in the Ministry for a culture of death. Yet there it is.
Right to Life continues to ask that the Minister of Health to uphold a culture of life by removing responsibility for abortion and euthanasia from the Ministry of Health, where these twin evils are corrupting and destroying us. We continue to seek the repeal of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and the End of Life Choice Act 2019.
Ken Orr,
Secretary,
Right to Life
Media Release 18 April 2022
The government of Jacinda Ardern has authorised and funded the killing of sixty-six vulnerable patients in the period between the End of Life Choice coming into force on the 7 November 2021 and 31 March 2022. These patients were killed by a doctor with a lethal injection or assisted in their suicide.
The government pays doctors up to $3,000 for each patient they remove from the health system and terminate. Treasury would confirm that it is cheaper to kill patients than to care for them.
The government promotes euthanasia as giving patients a right to choose. This ‘right’ will ultimately become a duty to die when we become a burden on the state Right to Life believes that the End of Life Choice Act actually empowers doctors to kill their patients, violates their medical ethics and avoids prosecution for murder. Doctors who wish to be trained serial killers become the most dangerous men in the land.
This quarterly report should fill our souls with terror and apprehension as we consider living in a state where the government is prepared to decide who should live and who shall be killed, all under the guise of a health service. When the state assumes the right to decide whose lives are of value and who may be killed, we are living in a tyrannical state.
The Ministry of Health’s Registrar [assisted dying] Dr Kristin Good, has provided her first quarterly report on the assisted dying service. The service activity is from 7th November 2021 to 31st March 2022. The report raises many important questions.
There were 205 people who had applied for this “service. ” 59 people were still in the process of assessment, 81 people did not continue the process due to being ineligible, withdrawing or having died.
The ethnicity of those who applied was;
Nearly 50 patients had their lives terminated at home, more than 10 patients in retirement homes, 133 patients were suffering from Cancer and 164 patients were receiving palliative care.
There are 130 doctors on the Ministry’s list who are prepared to administer a lethal injection to their patients. This is in violation of the ethics of the World Medical Association that prohibits euthanasia. It also violates the fifth commandment of our Creator, “Thou shalt not kill,” we violate this commandment at our peril.
Do we want our medical profession to accept the killing of patients as a treatment option? Would you entrust your family into the hands of a doctor who was prepared to kill you as a treatment option? Will you accept that a condition for entry to medical school is a willingness to kill your patients or assist in their suicide?
Right To Life is committed to the repeal of the End of Life Choice Act 2019 . We will seek to expose it for the threat that it is to the most vulnerable. We will vigorously oppose the expected attempts of the ACT Party to extend the scope of the killing to include those with a disability and the inclusion of advance directives. We will not rest until this evil legislation is revoked.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life
Media Release 13th April 2022
Right to Life urges the staff in the Ministry of Health to exercise their right of conscience and refuse to be complicit in the killing of innocent human beings.They can do this by refusing to have anything to do with the promotion and oversight of the End of Life Choice Act 2019 and also the Abortion Legislation Act 2020.
In response to an Official Information Act request from Right to Life, Deputy Director General of Health, Clare Perry, advised on 17th February that “the Ministry does not require staff to be involved in providing oversight or support for assisted dying where they hold an objection to assisted dying…”
The Deputy Director General of Health, Clare Perry, is responsible for Health System Improvement and Innovation. She is responsible for the oversight and promotion of the legal killing of unwanted unborn children and for doctors killing their vulnerable patients with a lethal injection or assisting in their suicide.
Right to Life commends the Ministry of Health for respecting the right of its staff to refuse to being complicit in the killing of innocent human beings, both born and unborn. This is part of a culture of death which has no place in the Ministry of Health which should be totally committed to the protection of the lives of every member of our community from conception to natural death.
The Ministry should be at the forefront in promoting a culture of life in New Zealand. Right to Life is appalled that the government of Jacinda Ardern is deliberately undermining the respect, trust and affection that the community has for the Ministry of Health, because of its forced involvement in the killing of the innocent.
The government should not be requiring the Ministry to pay doctors to poison unborn children, to have them sucked out of their mother’s wombs or to have them violently and painfully dismembered with their precious remains treated as medical waste to be disposed of at the local tip. Nor should the Ministry be required to pay doctors to give a lethal injection to their vulnerable patients or assist in their suicide all under the disguise that this is health care.
Right to Life demands that the government cease using our Ministry as a vehicle for promoting their culture of death. We want our Ministry back serving the community and not the government. Respect for the sanctity of life has been the foundation ethic for the practice of medicine for more than 2000 years. This ethic is sacrosanct and it is there for the protection of the community. The ethic recognises the intrinsic dignity of every human being; The government does not.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life