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“A woman’s Right To Choose” – A Cruel Deception

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Media Release 28 July 2021

Nobody has the right to choose to kill another innocent human being. It is an intolerable injustice and a betrayal of women for the government of Jacinda Ardern to deceive women with the lie that women have a right to kill their children before they are born. It was the Hon Andrew Little who faithfully promoted this deception when presenting the Abortion Legislation bill at its first reading in 2019 by reminding Parliament that 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. These chilling words were reminiscent of the Nazi Jewish holocaust when the Nazis justified the murder of Jews by denying the humanity and right to life of Jews.  

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, claims to be a feminist and reminds us that New Zealand led the way in granting women the vote in 1893. Why then does the Prime Minister not support the right of women to be born?

Since she took office in 2017 more than 20,000 babies who would have grown to be women have been denied the right to vote because they were first denied the right to be born, having been killed before birth as health care authorised and funded by the government as a core health service. This is both anti-life and anti-feminist, it is an appalling injustice to women and a crime against humanity.

It is a monstrous lie that has contributed to pain and suffering, for millions of women throughout the world and to the killing of innocent and defenceless unborn children. Never before in the history of mankind has such a blatant lie promoted by Family Planning and the International Planned Parenthood Federation in its war against women, its promotion of a culture of death, been the cause of such misery and destruction.

The slogan “a woman’s right to choose” was invented in 1969 by Dr Bernard Nathanson, a founder of the American, National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws. He later had a conversion and actively defended the right to life of the unborn when he saw on an ultra sound screen an unborn child with its mouth open in a silent scream, struggling to stay alive in the midst of an abortion.

Dr Nathanson later said that he always knew it was a lie. We knew it was not true, they knew it was not true and now society at large knows that it is not true. It is a monstrous lie.

Right to Life believes that the government also knows that it is a monstrous lie.

What then specifically is the pro-death movement trying to hide under the disarming slogan, “a woman’s right to choose”. It is none other than a right to kill another human being, not one who is able to defend itself from attack but the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family, an unborn child who is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of the Creator. The destruction of God’s precious infants will bring down the wrath of God on society.

In the biblical book, Deuteronomy it says, “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life that your children may live.” As a society, we must do all we can to help women choose life for their children. God will not bless a nation that kills its own children.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life NZ Inc.

Bereavement Leave Act recognises unborn child from conception as a human being

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Media Release 3 April 2021

Bereavement Leave Act recognises unborn child from conception as a human being.

Right to Life congratulates Parliament for unanimously passing the Holiday’s [Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage] Amendment Bill no 2.

This Act is appropriately named for bereavement is a noun which means “loss by death of a close relative or friend.” A woman will have no closer relative than the unborn child that she carries in her womb.

In passing this bill Parliament has given recognition to the unalterable truth that the unborn child is a human being from conception and is  endowed with a right to life.

This recognition was affirmed by many Members of Parliament who with humanity and compassion spoke eloquently of the “child” in the womb and in the words of Ginny Andersen, sponsor of the bill, “I hope this bill will go some way in recognising the need for time and space to deal with the unimaginable grief that comes with losing a pregnancy.”

Right to Life wishes to speak up on behalf of the more than 12,000 women who have lost their child through abortion each year, whose pain and grief is ignored by this Bereavement Act. This Act recognises the loss of a child through miscarriage and stillbirth but ignores the loss of a child through abortion. Right to Life grieves with these wounded women in the loss of their precious irreplaceable children whose pain is denied.

Right to Life asks our Parliament how can you reconcile your recognition of the humanity of the unborn child with the actions of this Parliament just twelve months ago that passed the Abortion Legislation bill 68 to 51.

In the chilling words of the then Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, who with the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern were the architects of this legislation said in presenting this bill for its first reading in Parliament, “I accept on legal and moral grounds the established jurisprudence in New Zealand that human rights do not accrue until human life is possible, and that the widely accepted human rights that we all understand apply when they are capable of being exercised, which is to say I accept the “born alive” principle that guides our courts today.” This is a legal fiction that is not supported by reason or science. This legal fiction supports the state funded killing of more than 12,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children every year, a crime against our Creator, the author of life, a violation of human rights, and an unspeakable violence against women, whose cries of pain and suffering are unheard.  

Right to Life requests that the government uphold justice, repeal section 159 of the Crimes Act and amend the Abortion legislation to comply with the Bereavement Leave Act by recognising that the unborn child from conception is a human being endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

International Women’s Day – The right of Women to be Born.

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Media Release 8 March 2021

Today is International Women’s Day, with the theme “choose to challenge.” Right to Life chooses to challenge and passionately supports women’s equality and believes that respect for the rights of women begins in the womb. At conception every child, including the female child, is endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.

Today, thanks to the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the extremist anti-feminist and anti-life Abortion Legislation Act the most dangerous place for a woman is in her mother’s womb.

Unborn children including females may now be killed for any reason up to 20 weeks. After 20 weeks they may be killed up to birth if a doctor considers it “appropriate.” Every year more than 12,000 unborn children, which includes nearly 6,000 innocent and defenceless female children are violently killed in their mother’s womb

How can Jacinda Ardern claim to support gender equality and the rights of women when she refuses to accept that females in the womb are human beings endowed with a right to life?  She has declared that it was not a crime to kill an unborn child, including a female child as it was not a human being and did not have human rights until it was born. Authentic feminism is non-violent, non-discriminatory and defends the weak and defenceless.

The Hon. Jan Tinetti,  in a media release stated that the government was celebrating women. How can you celebrate women when your government is funding each year the violent killing of more than 6,000 females in their mother’s womb?

The Prime Minister, on International Women’s Day in 2020, stated that we should, ”help improve women’s access to equal opportunities,” an admirable objective, but what opportunities does a normal healthy female have who has been violently dismembered limb from limb in a public Hospital by a doctor employed by the State under the pretence that this is an essential health service with unlimited funding? Please don’t tell us that you believe in women’s equality.

Right to Life is passionate about women’s rights and is campaigning for legal recognition of the right of women to be born. It is disappointing that the Prime Minister does not currently support the right of women to be born.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Christchurch Abortion Capital of the South Island

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Media Release 6 March 2021

The latest abortion statistics released by the Canterbury District Health Board confirm that Christchurch tragically continues to be the abortion capital of the South Island.

The Canterbury District Health Board has released to Right to Life under the Official Information Act the abortion statistics for 2020. The Board advises that in 2020 there were a total of 1,658 abortions performed at Christchurch Women’s Hospital and at the Gynaecological Procedure unit at the Christchurch Public Hospital.

This is an increase of 90 over the abortion total for 2018, the total for 2019 has not yet been released. Since the passing of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 abortions do not have to be performed in a licensed facility. Medical abortions may be performed in a suburban medical centre and by telehealth with the dangerous drugs being taken by the women in their own home without medical supervision. These abortions are only reported to the Ministry of Health.

This is therefore not the abortion total for Christchurch as it does not include abortions performed outside of Christchurch Women’s Hospital. We may have experienced a 10 per cent increase in abortion numbers under the new extreme abortion law.

A total of 941 defenceless unborn children were violently dismembered and killed in their mother’s womb. A total of 717 unborn children were poisoned in their mother’s womb with lethal drugs.

Each one of these children was a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation endowed by its Creator at conception with an inalienable right to life. They were created to love and to be loved, they were endowed with special gifts to enrich our community. Their killing is crime against humanity and a violation of their human rights, why are the churches silent? We should also mourn for their mothers, wounded and often grief stricken, the second victim of abortion.

The Board advised that since 2010 the oldest child killed in an abortion at Christchurch Women’s Hospital was 34 weeks gestation, just 6 weeks before it was due to be born.

The Abortion Legislation Act 2020 came into operation on the 24th March 2020; this allowed for abortion on request for any reason up to 20 weeks. After 20 weeks it was required that a doctor considered it “appropriate.” There were 1,638 potentially normal pregnancies that were terminated in abortions of less than 20 weeks gestation and 20 late term abortions post 20 weeks.

The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, the architect of the new anti-life and anti-feminist new abortion law, has decreed that the unborn child is not a human being, has no human rights until it is born and that it is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child.

The Canterbury District Health Board dedicated to protecting life and promoting health has an outstanding reputation for caring for the community that it serves. It really cares for its people. Right to Life believes that the Board and its dedicated staff do not support the burden inflicted on them by the government has decreed that killing the unborn is a core health service with unlimited funding. Why does the Prime Minister who tells us to be kind and the Minister of Health, Hon. Andrew Little, inflict this intolerable violence against women and their precious unborn on our communities and on the dedicated staff in our hospitals?

The CDHB advised Right to Life in a letter, “that staff recognise that for any woman considering abortion can be overwhelming and incredibly stressful and a decision not taken lightly. Staff deal gently, respectfully and professionally with women.”

Social workers talk of regret, guilt, depression and anxiety and that there is no pressure to decide.

Right to Life encourages our doctors and nurses to refuse to be involved in the killing of our defenceless unborn children and reject the culture of death which the government is imposing on them under the guise that it is a health service.


Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life

Right to Life Applauds US Senate Confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett

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Media Release 28 October 2020

Right to Life commends the United States Senate for confirming the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, this is a victory for women.

Justice Barrett is the fifth woman to have been appointed to the Supreme Court in its 231 year history. Her credentials are impeccable, were unquestioned and unchallenged. She taught law at the Notre Dame university as a professor and served three years as a distinguished Federal Appeal Court Judge in Chicago.

Barrett is now the sixth practicing Catholic justice at the Supreme court, joining Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and Brett Kavanaugh. In addition, Justice Barrett will join Sotomayor as the only two Catholic female Supreme Court Justices in US history.

The appointment of Justice Barrett is a victory for women. She is an iconic model for women, providing an outstanding example of a woman fulfilling her role as a loving wife, mother of seven children and as a member of the legal profession attaining the pinnacle of her profession as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She has achieved this because of the loving support of her husband Jesse. They have been married for 21 years and are raising seven children, two being adopted from Haiti. During the Senate hearing she humbly stated,”What greater thing can you do then raise children.”

At her confirmation she swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States and stated,

“A judge declares independence not only from Congress and the President, but also from the private beliefs that might otherwise move her. …… My fellow Americans, even though we judges don’t face elections, we still work for you.”

Fr. John Jenkins, CSC, president of Notre Dame university said this of her in a statement:

“Recognised by experts from across the spectrum of judicial philosophies as a superb legal scholar and judge, she is an esteemed colleague and a teacher revered by her students. Justice Barrett becomes the first alumna of Notre Dame Law School and the first Notre Dame faculty member to be so honoured.”

In Justice Barrett the United States Supreme Court has an outstanding member who believes in the sanctity of life of every human being from conception to natural death and also believes in marriage of exclusively one man and one woman.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson

Right to Life N.Z. Inc.

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