Right to Life asks the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon what action will his government take to protect the lives of the most persecuted community, our precious children with Down syndrome?
Is the government prepared to consult with the Down syndrome community for their views on the current search and destroy programme inflicted on their community?
Lest we forget, it was this week on the 18 March 2020 that the New Zealand Parliament passed the notorious Abortion Legislation Bill which allows for the murder of unborn children up to birth including those diagnosed with Down syndrome.
We should never forget that the architect of this murderous legislation was the Prime Minister, Dame Jacinda Ardern who believed that women have a right to kill their unborn children, including those with Down syndrome up to birth.
Right to Life shares the fears of the Down community, that with the passing of the extremist anti-life Abortion Legislation Act 2020, that the government’s campaign to eliminate babies before birth with Down syndrome will intensify.
It is estimated that as a result of screening and abortion on demand that 71 per cent of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are now killed before birth. Each year from 2016 to 2020, only 41 babies who had been diagnosed with Down syndrome were born in New Zealand, a total of 205 children. It is estimated that there would be 3 times the number of babies living with Down syndrome in New Zealand, if there was no screening for Down syndrome and abortion available.
Down syndrome awareness day was instituted by the United Nations in 2012. This year of 2024, the World Down Syndrome Day theme is ‘End the Stereotypes’. This is a focus on the right of those living with Down syndrome to live without judgement. All people with Down syndrome should have full participation in decision making about matters relating to, or affecting, their lives. Right to Life totally supports the inalienable right of those with Down syndrome to be consulted on what affects their lives.
Right to Life believes that this government and previous governments support a search and destroy mission to eliminate Down syndrome, not by remedying the condition, but by eliminating the person with Down syndrome.
In 2017, Saving Downs, a support group for Down Syndrome people, highlighted their concerns around Jacinda Ardern’s pledge to change the abortion laws and that this would introduce abortion through to birth for babies with disabilities. In response Jacinda Ardern made a commitment not to increase the time limit for disability-selective abortion.
In response to the concerns raised by Saving Downs, Jacinda Ardern said:
“They have said till 40 weeks, which is wrong, which is wrong. We have time periods already set out in law, I’m not proposing changes to that. I’m proposing it comes out of the Crimes Act.”
Sadly it appears that the then Prime Minister had broken her promise to the Down syndrome community and her government brought forward a bill, which became law, and introduced disability-selective abortion through to birth.
Right to Life will not forget this betrayal of women, the unborn child and the disability community. We will not be silenced, we will not abandon the battlefield, nor will we rest until we achieve justice for women, the unborn child and those with Down syndrome.
Jab sin dah caused a lot of down syndrome, as in all those she mandated for the jab – most are down in some way many out for the count. We will never ever forget.
Anyone or business associated with the woman is not going to prosper.