Media Release22 January 2014
Today is the forty-first anniversary of the infamous Roe v Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court which decriminalised abortion, effectively during the full nine months of pregnancy. It presents an urgent warning for New Zealand not to follow this path of destruction that would accelerate the war against women. The decriminalisation of abortion is supported by the Labour Party. Right to Life believes that if we have a Labour/Green government at the forthcoming general election it will seek the support of the Law Commission to decriminalise abortion. The anniversary of Roe v Wade marks a day of infamy that opened the floodgates of hell, the abandonment of a commitment by the government to protect human life. It commenced the war on women with the striking down of the individual state’s legal protection for the lives of its unborn children. [Read more…]