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Government Increases Chemical Warfare Against Women and Unborn

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Media Release 12 January 2022

The New Zealand government is authorising state funded chemical warfare against our own children. Chemical abortions are an instrument of mass destruction, which victimises mothers and kills their unborn.

The NZ Family Planning Association is eager to become a major participant in this chemical warfare against our children and is seeking government funding to become fully operational in all of its 30 clinics.

The Ministry of Health reports in its 2021 report that in 2020 there were 5,342 medical abortions an increase of 47.92 % over the 3,617 medical abortions performed in 2019. Surgical abortions fell in 2020 to 7,802 from 9,262 in 2019.

Medical statistics provided by the Ministry of Health reveal that 169 women were admitted to hospital in 2020 with complications following a medical abortion. Most were discharged on the same day, however there were 55 nights in hospital recorded. Many women also end up in A&E with complications after an abortion, their numbers and complications are not recorded in abortion statistics.

Right to Life deplores the increase in the killing of the unborn with the lethal murder pill Mifepristone, RU 486 and the prostaglandin Misoprostol. This chemical warfare is very effective, as Mifepristone cruelly deprives the developing human being of nourishment resulting in the child dying of starvation.

The government is encouraging the early killing of “unwanted children” up to nine weeks gestation and is concerned that some District Health Boards are not providing this “health service” which they believe should be more available following the Abortion Legislation Act designed and promoted by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.

Medical abortions further victimise women:-

  • By trivialising the killing of the unborn.
  • By violating informed consent by refusing to give the woman any information on the process of reversing the abortion process with high doses of progesterone after the taking of Mifepristone should she regret her decision and choose life for her child.
  • By imposing an incredible psychological burden on women. She has to accept full responsibility for the killing of her child for it is the woman who takes the lethal drug to kill her child.
  • By abandoning women to take the lethal drugs in her own home without medical support.
  • By failing to ensure that the woman is not subject to coercion, violence or threats of desertion.
  • By leaving the woman to dispose of the remains of her child. This is an appalling psychological trauma for women.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern openly condemns chemical warfare. In September 2018 she stated, “New Zealand condemns any use of chemical weapons, whether it is in Syria or on the streets of the UK. New Zealand believes all states must adhere to obligations under international law, including in respect of chemical weapons.”

It is inconsistent for the Prime Minister to denounce this crime against humanity, while at the same time giving approval for the use of weapons of mass destruction in chemical warfare in New Zealand in a bloody civil war against our own children.

The government is promoting chemical warfare against women and their precious unborn in the face of increasing opposition from doctors to be involved in surgical abortions that entail the violent dismemberment of the child. Medical abortions do not require a doctor and can now be done by nurse practitioners and midwives.

 

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Southern DHB Contracts out Abortion Killing to Magma Health Ltd

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Dr David Bivona and Dr Simon Snook Directors of Magma Healthcare Ltd

Official Information Request to:

Mr Chris Fleming, CEO, Southern District Health Board, April 3rd

Dear Mr Fleming,

Official Information Act- Request

I have been advised that the Southern DHB has entered into a contract with Magma Healthcare Ltd, to provide an abortion service in Invercargill, previously provided by the Kew hospital. Right to Life is opposed to the killing of innocent and defenceless unborn children, which is intrinsically evil and a violation of the human rights of the unborn. We believe women are the second victims of abortion who are wounded and are often left with a lifetime of grief and sorrow. Since 1977 it has been our policy that when the law provides for abortions that they should be performed only in Public Hospitals. This contract raises a number of important questions.  

I therefore wish to request under the Official Information Act the following information:-

1.Please provide a copy of the contract?

2.Is the provider’s facility required to be registered as a hospital?

3.Is the provider required to have adequate surgical equipment in its facility to deal with complications arising from abortions they have performed.

4.What is the price paid to the provider for each abortion performed?

5.Will the provider be required to provide counselling in its facility to women before and after an abortion?

6.Will the provider be allowed to provide Mifepristone and Misoprostol to women having a medical abortion to complete the abortion at home?

7.What provision will the provider have should complications occur requiring specialist care?

8.Will the person performing the surgical abortions be a registered medical practitioner?

9.Will the person performing the surgical abortions be a specialist gynaecologist?

Yours sincerely,

Ken Orr

Secretary,

Right to Life

Important Questions Asked to Andrew Little and Tracey Martin

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24th July 2019

Hon Andrew Little MP,

Minister of Justice,

Dear Minister,

I am very concerned about the health and welfare of women. I therefore wish to bring to your attention information concerning the encouragement of the unlawful importation of prescription drugs in contravention of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 and the Crimes Act 1961.

The prescription only drugs Mifepristone and Misoprostol are used in New Zealand for chemical abortions. The Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 requires that these drugs be only prescribed by “operating surgeons” following the authorisation of an abortion in accordance with the Crimes Act section 187A. These drugs are required to be administered only in facilities licenced for abortions.

It us unlawful  for any person to import them into New Zealand across the border without authority. It is also unlawful to use these drugs to perform an unlawful abortion.

The Abortion Law Reform Association Inc  has a web site that encourages persons to visit another site for the purpose of unlawfully importing these prohibited drugs. It minimises the risk of being discovered and makes no mention of the very real threat to the health and lives of women who use these drugs in their own home without medical supervision. For your information I have included the link to the ALRANZ site.

I would be grateful if you would kindly advise me what action you take in this important issue.

Yours sincerely,

Ken Orr

Secretary,

Right to Life.

23rd July 2019

Hon, Tracey Martin MP,

Minister for Children,

Dear Minister,

I am writing in defence of women and our precious unborn children. Today the most dangerous place for a child is in its mother’s womb. It is reported in the media that you are working with the Minister of Justice to have the government bill to decriminalise abortion reconciled with your Party’s policy.

You stated that it was your overriding principle to keep abortion “safe legal and rare.”

Abortion is never safe for the child who is violently dismembered in its mother’s womb, nor is it legal as the Abortion Supervisory Committee [ASC] has reported to Parliament that the law is not been interpreted as intended by Parliament. In 1988 the Committee reported that we had at “present an unwieldly system of authorising the termination of potentially normal pregnancies on pseudo-legal grounds.” Since 1978 more than 98 per cent of abortions are authorised on the grounds of mental health which the ASC advised in 1995 at the initial Select Committee hearing in Parliament was the grounds used by certifying consultants to “provide abortion on demand.” The ASC advise in its 2018 report that in 2017 there were 181 abortions for every 1,000 known pregnancies. With nearly one in five pregnancies ending with the killing of the child, abortion in New Zealand is not rare.

It is my contention that the fundamental issue is not abortion but the status of the unborn child. If Parliament denies the humanity of the unborn child and moves the child from the protection of the Crimes Act sections 182 and 183 and allows the killing of the child as a health service, we will be setting a very important precedent. A future Parliament could decide that those with dementia and Alzheimer’s are no longer human beings and may be killed as a health service.

The Minister of Justice is not serving the best interests of women and the unborn by ignoring the learned findings of the Royal Commission on Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion which made the following conclusions in its report to Parliament in 1977:-

•          “The unborn child as one of the weakest, the most vulnerable and most defenceless forms of humanity, should receive protection.”

•          “From a biological point of view there is no argument as to when life begins. Evidence was given to us by eminent scientists from all over the world.     None of them suggested that human life begins at any other time than at conception”

•          “From implantation to birth, changes which take place in the unborn child are of a developmental nature only. There are no changes of a qualitative nature. The three events suggested as being of significance, namely quickening, viability and brain development are no more than stages in that development and are not indicative of any qualitative changes in the developing fetus which would make it non-human.”

•          In rejecting the argument that some degree of development should be reached before the unborn child be accorded status the Commission said, “If some stage of physical or mental development has to be accepted as indicating whether or not human life is in being, so a stage may be reached at the other end of life where a person who has become senile or has lost consciousness may be disposed of.”

•          The Commission rejected abortion at the request of the mother as it would then accord to the unborn child only that status which the individual woman herself chose to give it.

The State has a compelling interest and duty to protect the lives of its future citizens, it would be an intolerable injustice for the State to declare that it has no duty to protect the lives of New Zealanders in the first nine months of life. To deny the humanity of the unborn child is a serious threat to the right to life of every New Zealander.

In the interest of women and future generations I urge you to please use your influence to maintain the status of the unborn child as the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family deserving of our respect and with the continued protection of the Crimes Act.

Thank you for all that you are doing to promote the common good.

Yours sincerely,

Ken Orr

Secretary,

Right to Life

Our government is making Chemical Warfare against our own Children

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Media Release 26 September 2018

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is commended for condemning chemical warfare. Recently she stated, “New Zealand condemns any use of chemical weapons, whether it is in Syria or on the streets of the UK. New Zealand believes all states must adhere to obligations under international law, including in respect of chemical weapons.”

It is inconsistent for the Prime Minister to denounce this crime against humanity while at the same time giving approval for the use of weapons of mass destruction in chemical warfare in New Zealand in a bloody civil war against our own children. The Abortion Supervisory Committee reported to Parliament in 2017 that 1,970, pre-born children were killed,  472 of whom were aged nine weeks or more, in their mother’s womb with the lethal chemical Mifegyne RU486 . This chemical was approved for the killing of children by the Minister of Health Annette King, in August 2001. In her media release on 30 August 2001, the Minister stated that,

“Mifegyne RU486 meets the international standards of safety and effectiveness required for medicines”.

Mifegyne RU 486, is not a medicine and pregnancy is not a disease. The lethal drug is not safe for the unborn child, nor is it safe for women. It is however, as the Minister claims, highly effective in killing the unborn. Since the introduction of this new chemical warfare against the unborn there have been nearly 18,000 unborn killed in New Zealand by this drug. This chemical war is also violence against women who are the second victims of this war.This is a crime against humanity.

Mifegyne acts by depriving the endometrium of a hormone which the human embryo requires to flourish, the embryo then dies of starvation. This highly effective chemical warfare is approved and funded as a core health service by the government and is used in a number of Public Hospitals. The Family Planning Association is an ardent supporter of chemical warfare with Mifegyne and in April 2013 commenced killing unborn children at its Tauranga clinic. The Association supports the decriminalisation of abortion, removing abortion from the Crimes Act and making it no longer a crime to kill an unborn child. The Association supports abortion being a reproductive choice for women for any reason with this lethal poison being available at all of its other 29 clinics.

Chemical warfare has been raging against our own children in the womb for more than fifty years. It is hypocritical for our government to condemn crimes against humanity in other countries while actively waging a war against our own children which is approved and funded by the government. This is a crime against humanity.

Right to Life asks when is the government going to stop this insane civil war against our own children? There will be no peace in New Zealand until this devastating war against our nation’s children in the womb is stopped.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life.

Are New Zealand Women being Informed of the Risks of Medical RU 486 abortions?

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The following article was written by Donna J. Harrison the Executive Director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists   AAPOG.

About a month ago,  the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology  published a case report on another death from medical abortion. Of course this death, as most of the others, was ignored by the international press.

 

“Currently most of the adverse events for medical abortion come from Danco,  the company who makes mifepristone.   It is extremely unlikely that FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) is getting the entire story from the fox who is watching the hen-house.”

One blogger, however has published an excellent summary of the case as well as a historical review of other cases of death from C. sordellii.    His excellent summary is found here    Click here for video on Abortion Pill Risks (medical abortion)

His conclusions (shown below)  are worth serious consideration:

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The Madness of Chemical Warfare Against Our Own Children

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Media Release 13th September 2013

The Prime Minister, John Key rightly deplores  the Syrian civil war and the recent chemical gas attack in Damascus where an estimated 1,429 civilians including 426 children were killed. He described the attack as “abhorrent and a disgrace”. The attack has been described by the American President as a crime against humanity.

It is inconsistent for the Prime Minister to denounce this crime against humanity, while at the same time giving approval for the use of weapons of mass destruction in chemical warfare in New Zealand in a bloody civil war against our own children. The Abortion Supervisory Committee reported to Parliament in 2012 that 984 pre-born children were killed in their mother’s womb with the lethal chemical Mifegyne RU 486. This chemical was approved for the killing of children by the Minister of Health Annette King, in August 2001. The Minister in her media release on 30 August 2001 stated that,

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Letter to ASC–Tauranga Family Planning Clinic

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Secretary,

Abortion supervisory Committee,

Dear Ms Melkiau

Official Information Act Request

The New Zealand Family Planning Association were issued a limited abortion licence for the performance of abortions at its Tauranga clinic in April 2013.

I wish to request under the Official Information Act the following information:

  • The number of abortions performed at the Tauranga clinic?
  • The number of requests for abortion that were declined by certifying consultants serving the Bay of Plenty District Health Board area since the commencement of abortions at the FPA clinic?
  • The number of women who had an abortion at the Tauranga clinic who received pre- decision counselling?
  • The number of women who had an abortion at the Tauranga clinic for whom a complication resulting from the abortion was reported by the operating surgeon?
  • Is it a requirement that the Mifigyne RU 486 and the Misoprostol drugs be administered by, or in the presence of a registered medical practitioner?
  • May women having an abortion at the Tauranga clinic take the prostaglandin, Misoprostol in their own home, as is the common practise in Britain?

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42 Botched RU 486 Medical Abortions in Just One State But ASC Says Yes in NZ

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NZ Family Planning, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood International have recently gained a licence from New Zealand’s Abortion Supervisory Committee to open a clinic to perform chemical RU 486 abortions in Tauranga. Family Planning had plans to open 30 new clinics, aka, ‘killing centres’  but withdrew all but the Tauranga application after Pro-Life groups around the country made their plans known to the public. 

The following article is from the Townhall.com  website which features information concerning 42 botched chemical RU 486 abortions in the state of Ohio alone.

That an official body of the NZ government seems to think it is acceptable to grant a licence to allow for new ways to kill future generations of our unborn children is reprehensible. What sort of health system are we now tolerating that is finding new ways to kill our precious unborn children, whose only ‘crime’ is that they are wanted?  What level of selfishness does this show within our sick society when we have those who are prepared to kill other humans in order to live as they wish? Thousands of infertile couples are desperate to adopt new born children but we still have nearly 16,000 abortions per year yet only around 14 adoptions per year outside of the family. So instead of promoting adoption as a win win answer to the problem of abortion, New Zealand has instead decided it is a good idea to promote more killing. And we wonder why we have a problem with child violence.

Read on for  the article on botched medical (chemical) abortions in Ohio.

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Isis’ Story: The Scariest Moment Of My Life With RU-486!

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The following post on the dangers of the Abortion Pill RU 486 is from the Abortion Pill Risks website. Although this story is from the United States, Right to Life points out that a women taking the abortion pill RU 486 faces similar dangers here in NZ. In fact this is the drug that NZ Family Planning  has just been given permission to begin using at its Tauranga Clinic. Family Planning want to create 30 new abortion clinics across the country. Tauranga is the first.  Right to Life asks if New Zealand woman have been told the truth about this terrible drug and does NZ really want to step up the killing?

The following are some introductory extracts from this story.

“I feel that it is my obligation to tell my story for all the women out there that have been fooled that this so called “natural way of abortion” is in no way normal.”“As a matter of fact it was a freakish nightmare for me!”

On April 11, 2013, Isis, a 22-year-old college student from New York had an appointment with BWMC’s staff  to obtain counseling and guidance, so she could make an informed health care decision, about terminating her early unplanned pregnancy.

After receiving her sonogram, it was determined that Isis was 5 weeks and 4 days pregnant and prescribed an alternative/off-label regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol which has not been evaluated or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Isis received the mifepristone abortion pill (RU-486, Mifeprex) to take orally at the clinic. Mifepristone inhibits and blocks the essential reproductive hormone progesterone that plays a critical role for the initiation and maintenance of pregnancy.

Before leaving the clinic, she was briefly instructed to vaginally insert misoprostol that same evening, just before bedtime, to induce contractions to expel the embryo and placental tissues.

For Isis, her experience with the clinic’s staff and the lack of information she had been given about the abortion pill procedure was a disappointing failure. She now hopes to warn other young women about her abortion pill experience which she describes as a “freakish nightmare.”   Click here to read the full article on the Abortion Pill Risks website.

This is the website of Right to Life NZ Inc.
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