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Questions asked of Minister of Health Regarding Medical Abortions at Tauranga Clinic

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29 January 2014

Hon Tony Ryall,

Minister of Health,

Dear Mr Ryall,

Official Information Act – Request

The Bay of Plenty District Health Board  has a contract with the New Zealand Family Planning Association to fund the performance of medical abortions at the Association’s Tauranga clinic. It is not the Association’s intention to perform surgical abortions.

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

  • What is the fee paid by the District Health Board to the FPA for each medical abortion performed on a resident woman at the Tauranga Clinic and what other services are included?
  •  Is there a separate payment made if counselling is provided before or after an abortion?
  •  Is there a separate payment made for the time spent by a certifying consultant interviewing a woman considering an abortion at the Tauranga Clinic?
  • Is there a payment made in the event that a woman considering an abortion declines to proceed with the abortion or is declined by certifying consultants?
  • Do you require the Family Planning Association to comply with the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977, section21 [2] [b] which requires, “That there are in the institution, adequate surgical and other facilities, and adequate and competent staff, for the safe performance of abortions.” 

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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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Tauranga Churches Pledge to Assist Women and Their Unborn Children

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Editor,

NZ Herald.

Dear Sir.

Re 2 August. The twenty-five churches in Tauranga who have pledged to assist women who are need of help in bringing their precious unborn children to birth are to be commended. Tauranga is giving a brilliant example of a community that is caring and compassionate. It is an example that should be emulated by other communities. We all have a duty to defend life especially that of unborn children who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family..  Studies done overseas reveal that sixty per cent of women seeking an abortion are doing so because they are being coerced by others. for so often they have been abandoned by the father of the child. It is disappointing that the spokesperson of the Abortion Law Reform Association, Alison McCulloch, is critical of the churches that are prepared to provide practical help to women. The Association is an advocate for a culture of death, it  does not represent the real interests of women. The Association with less than 100 members nationally has very minimal support from women. Would ALRANZ and Family Planning  please inform the community why they are not prepared to offer practical help to women who choose life for their baby?

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Letter to ASC re Tauranga Abortion Licence

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Secretary,

Abortion Supervisory Committee,

Dear Ms Cole

Abortion Licence – Tauranga

Thank you for your letter of 23 May 2013 and enclosures. It is noted that the holder of the abortion licence for the Tauranga Family Planning clinic is Ms Jacki Edmund. Ms Edmund is the Chief Executive Officer for the New Zealand Family Planning Association and is stationed at its national office in Willis Street in Wellington.

The application for a licence was completed by Ms Edmund on  6th December 2012. Section 20, Applications for Licences, of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 [CS & A Act ] states [b] In the case of any other institution, the person for the time being in charge of the institution.

It is noted  that it was Parliament’s intention in passing this legislation in 1977 to require the person holding the licence to be a fit and proper person to hold such a licence.

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Family Planning Wages War against Women of Tauranga

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Right to Life Media Release April 24th 2013

womanThe New Zealand Family Planning Association has been granted a licence by the Abortion Supervisory Committee to kill unborn children at its Tauranga clinic. This is the first Family Planning clinic licenced to kill the unborn.The licence permits medical and surgical abortions up to twelve weeks. The Association is expected to use the French murder pill, Mifegyne RU 486 which is a lethal human pesticide which destroys the tiny human being by depriving the child of nourishment causing it to die of starvation.

Abortion is violence against vulnerable women and their precious unborn. Right to Life is opposed to the Association being granted a licence to inflict violence on vulnerable women and kill innocent and defenceless unborn children. Our Society questions why the Abortion Supervisory Committee would grant an abortion licence to such an organisation.

Family Planning is engaged in a national campaign to decriminalise abortion which would allow abortions on women for any reason or no reason up to the birth of the child. The citizens of Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty should rise up and make it known that the Association and its killing centre are not welcome in their community. Communities throughout New Zealand should now be alerted to the threat that Family Planning may in the near future be seeking to open an abortion clinic near you.

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