Human life begins at conception and every unborn child a human being endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.
The child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of His loving creation. Abortion is intrinsically evil and violates the fifth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” We violate this commandment at our peril.
The Director General of Health, Dr Diana Sarfati released her third annual report on 1st November 2023.
A total of 14,164 abortions had been reported in 2022. This was an increase of 907 abortions on the 13,357 abortions reported in 2021.This is a major increase of nearly 7%. Nearly one in five unborn children are killed before they are born. Increasingly the most dangerous place for a New Zealander is in its mother’s womb.
Right to Life believes that the legacy of the Ardern/Hipkins government was the murder of 70,000 unborn children. Right to Life requests that the incoming National led government dedicate itself to promoting a culture of life that will stop the violence against women and their precious unborn. The previous Parliament deluded itself by believing that killing innocent and defenceless children in the sanctuary of their mother’s womb was no longer a crime, it was a health service. Will the new government legislate to recognise the unborn child from conception as a human being endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life?
Dr Diana Sarfati, who presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand expressed her pleasure in presenting her third annual report. She was pleased that access and equity to abortion care had increased and that they had succeeded in doubling the workforce from 162 to 348 of those prepared to participate in the killing of the innocent unborn.
Right to Life respectfully asks Dr Sarfati, how can you derive pleasure as a woman and as a mother in reporting on the violent killing of 14,164 unborn New Zealand children and this violence against your fellow women? How can you commend your colleagues who support you in facilitating the killing of the innocent? You have a sacred duty to protect the lives of every member of our community from conception to natural death. Why should we trust you to protect our lives when you refuse to protect the lives of the weakest and most defenceless members of our human family?
New Zealand abolished the death penalty for rapists and murderers in 1961. We have retained capital punishment for the unborn for the crime of being unwanted. This is a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity. The killing of the innocent and defenceless unborn was supported by the Labour government of Jacinda Ardern who was the architect of the extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020. It also has the support of the National Party, ACT, the Greens and the Maori Party.
The government funded killing of the unborn is also supported by the media and by the silence of the majority of Churches who should be at the forefront in defending the life of God’s precious infants. Why is there a deafening silence?
- 14,164 abortions were performed in New Zealand in 2022, up from 13,257 in 2021.
- There were 1,612 babies killed in Canterbury in 2022, 142 more than the 1,470 killed in 2021
- 19.% of known pregnancies ended in an abortion in 2022 that is nearly one pregnancy in five ending with abortion.
- A third of abortions were repeat abortions.
- 50.6% of abortions, 7,171 up more than 6% in 2022 were early medical abortions, performed up to 10 weeks gestation. 47.8% of abortions,6,764 were surgical abortions.
Right to Life grieves with those women who have lost their precious child through abortion, they and their child deserved better than abortion. We also grieve with those fathers who were unable to save their child from being killed. Right to Life also commends those courageous women who chose life for their child in 2022.
With the passing of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, designed by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern the killing of the unborn has been taken out of the Crimes Act and has been made a health issue. It is no longer a crime to kill an unborn child as the government upholds the legal fiction that the unborn child is not a human being and does not have a right to life until it is born. The government recognises that this fiction is necessary to allow women to kill their children before they are born. The government authorises the killing and provides the funding for the state funded abortion industry which they consider an essential service, with no waiting list and with unlimited funding.
The abortion industry poisons, suctions unborn children from the womb and violently dismembers an estimated 39 unborn children each day. Children may now be killed up to 20 weeks gestation for any reason and up to birth if a doctor considers it “appropriate”.
Right to Life is committed to work with the pro-life movement to work for the repeal of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and for legislation that recognises the unborn child as a human being endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life.
it is bad that women have to commit abortion, and they must be very unhappy as for women , having a child is a joy. There must be a reason why they commit abortion.
There is a saying in europe:
If you want a beautifull calf, take first good care of the cow.
It should be applied to women. Take good care of your women if you want to have nice kids.
I had an abortion over 10 years ago and it still haunts me to this day. At some point in these woman’s lives it will come back to haunt them..
I have two precious children now and I often wonder about the one I aborted, what he/she would have been like.. I truely regret that decision I made 😢 every life is a precious gift from God.
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Kim, we all do things we regret. Most of the woman i know who commited abortion are haunted by it.
But society has always been harsh on women. When there is no one to turn to in difficult time, what to expect ? a child need a warm nest and feeding. When you can t provide it, some resolve to abortion.
I was lucky, i never had to
I’m so sorry for your baby that all the people in your life who should’ve given you love and guidance failed you. I sincerely hope you’ve found some semblance of peace and thank you for being brave enough to admit your regret.
It’s very telling how the establishment warns young women to come and talk to their councillors (rather than women like yourself with first hand knowledge). In the states they have a lot of good people who work hard to help women in need, sometimes all it takes is a baby scan to change a young lady’s mind and stop her from making a huge mistake. This is why most western governments quickly scrambled to outlaw such practices (a few months ago in the UK a woman was even arrested for standing outside an abortion clinic and praying silently (LITERALLY IN HER OWN MIND). Yes, they outlawed PRAYER 🤦🏼
They similarly banned so-called conversion therapy (also known colloquially as “reading the bible” 🤦🏼) because it might dangerously lead young men away from temptation and back to God, perish the thought.
The powers that be literally just want everyone miserable and suffering. I don’t know how people can deny it anymore. Evil times.
i would leave the bible out of it and stop to make women feel guilty.
It is a decision that have to be taken by the woman alone as she alone knows best her circumstances. No thrird party should be involved, only her partner if she has one. Third parties should mind their own business, as nobody is perfect and nobody was made ” the keeper of the truth”.
It is beter not to bring a soul into the world if you know it will be only pain and misery.
But i am pro life
1) “Stop making women feel guilty”
I’m glad that you’re pro life, more people should be. Absolutely haven’t said a word about making women feel guilty, that’s not what I want at all. My heart goes out to the women who’ve had to go through this, because they are lied to each and every single day about this issue. Please understand it is not the women I’m judgemental of, but the system that peddles the lie to them. THAT’S what I’m critical of, THAT’S the thing I hate. The machinery that is constantly running behind the scenes drumming this nonsense into their heads that it’s a just and morally righteous thing to kill an unborn baby in the womb. It screams the message at them every day from the classroom to the magazines to the social media to the Tv and movies NON STOP.
2) It’s a decision that has to be taken by the woman alone”.
I strongly reject that argument. I’ve already answered in another comment thread below why I have a right to weigh in on the decision (please read it). And in any case, why would you want a woman to have to carry the heavy burden of such a terrible decision alone? Isn’t that WORSE? I mean I know it makes for a catchy soundbite on TV when they say “my body my choice” and snap their fingers, but do people ever consider what it really means? If you alone make the choice, you alone carry the guilt and regret. That sounds bloody awful to me, I wouldn’t want that for any woman, least of all one I love.
3) “Third parties should mind their own business, as nobody is perfect and nobody was made ” the keeper of the truth””.
I’m not trying to be the keeper of truth, I’m just calling out the (obvious) lies. Abortion objectively IS murder, it is the cancellation of a human life through violent and unnatural means, and it WILL haunt the woman who chooses it. I don’t say that to be critical of the women who’ve made the choice, I say it because I’m concerned for the women who have yet to make it. How am I supposed to “mind my own business” when young women are literally encouraged at every turn to abort abort abort, and damn the consequences? My own daughter is still just a little girl, but I already know she’s going to have all the usual talking points peddled to her at every turn. No, the “it’s none of your business” nonsense is another soundbite the baby killers try to use to shut detractors up. They want their pro-abortion propaganda pushed 24/7 from every source while no one else is allowed to say otherwise. I work and live in this society, this is a MAJOR social issue; it therefore absolutely IS my business. Especially when my tax money is used to subsidise these procedures. I’m more than happy to withdraw my opinion the day the government tells me to keep my tax money to myself.
4) It is beter not to bring a soul into the world if you know it will be only pain and misery.
But you could never know that for sure. Who can see the future? If you don’t want the baby, give it away. There are thousands of good people who would gladly give them a good life, especially now since our wonderful modern society has created an entire generation of women in their 40’s who are childless.
5) “Leave the bible out of it”.
We’ve been doing exactly this for a good couple of decades now and look at just where it’s brought us. To the gates of hell. You don’t have to be a religious person to realise that everything is objectively worse off today than it was 30 years ago. Everything.
Again, I’m glad you’re pro life because we’re on the same team. Just trying to speak as honestly as possible. I’m perfectly fine if you don’t agree with my points of view, maybe I’m not articulating them well enough on a website comment section. But I’ve yet to hear anything to change my mind.
Abortion must be permitted – if the woman desires – up until quickening.
If there is ever a total ban on abortion as there was up until 1970 then pregnancy resulting from rape, or incest, the ill health of the woman, or the youth of the girl, will also be forced through to delivery. If abortion is permitted in these cases, is it not still murder of an unborn child? If the fetus is found to have a cruel and debilitating disease, is it ethical to insist the child is born to suffer? Who decides? The same people who now want to ban the morning after pill? Mark my words, eventually they will want to ban all forms of of contraception.
You can force a woman to give birth but you cannot force her to care for or love the infant.
Better start building orphanages.
Ugh, “what about rape and incest” 🤦🏼.
Always the first lazy, stupid point that gets spat out by the baby killers. As if NZ is a Mad Max wasteland of roving rape gangs. Ready to hear something controversial? Rape is awful, but uncommon, and not the baby’s fault. Incest is awful, but uncommon, and NOT THE BABY’S FAULT. If your father robs a bank or murders someone, should YOU be forced to hang from the noose?
Is it terrible to expect a pregnant woman to carry her rapist’s baby to term? Perhaps. But how is it better to make the same poor woman lie back with her legs in stirrups while a doctor shoves an assortment of cold steel medical instruments up her and tears the rapist’s baby apart piece by piece? Does it take away the horror of what’s happened to her? Does it do ANYTHING to help her mental health? We’re supposed to believe it’s the “better” option for her, but how does it make sense to treat an horrific physical and mental trauma with ANOTHER horrific physical and mental trauma? Connect the dots for me please (without seething that you hope my wife or daughter are raped someday so that I “know what it feels like” – I’ve heard that stupid counterpoint so many times I’ve memorised it by now).
And yes, health reasons exist too. Sometimes the child might not be medically viable, sometimes the mother’s life might legitimately be in jeopardy. I can’t deny that. These are the hardest, most difficult decisions some people face in their entire lifetimes, the answer can never be a clear cut and simple one. Medical advice should definitely be front and centre, though NEVER taken as gospel given all the recent revelations about how corrupt and untrustworthy the medical profession has become. My own mother had to have kidney surgery while pregnant with my brother – she was warned repeatedly that the child would be SEVERELY mentally and physically retarded, yet she refused abortion on religious grounds. My brother was born perfectly normal, he heads up IT for a major bank now and has two kids of his own. Take medical opinions with a pinch of salt, and always get a second and perhaps even a third.
But even if we say, “okay fine, let’s ban abortion, but we’ll put in special exemptions for rape, incest and medical reasons…”, even then, the baby killers will refuse to accept it. It’s because they don’t ACTUALLY care about women, they just want to win. 24/7 access to abortion on demand, and the strictest of laws on the books to make it a crime for anyone else to call them out on their selfishness. They want women to continue to be fed the “my body my choice” bullshit when the fact is it’s someone ELSE’S body (a completely distinct genetic code from the mother’s) on the chopping block. It’s someone else’s life you are playing God with.
How many women out there DONT want abortion, but are forced into it by married boyfriends/bosses or embarrassed families trying to avoid a scandal or social stigma? Do any of the activists give one iota of a toss about THOSE women? No, because (once again) they just want to win.
And fear mongering about contraceptives being banned is disingenuous and stupid. No politician is ever going to sign that into law, especially since we now know how much big pharma cash is swirling around in Wellington.
What unimaginable horrors would come from it anyway? The end of our current filthy and depressing hookup/Tinder culture? Vapid Uni students with skulls full of mush being forced to actually be responsible for once in their shallow little lives? Young women spending the best years of their lives enjoying what their bodies are LITERALLY designed for instead of wasting away in godless corporate boardrooms while their 20’s and 30’s go by? Hell, people in western nations might just start multiplying again without the need to import hundreds of thousands of foreigners from countries culturally centuries behind ours – the horror 😱
All of things our modern “enlightened” society champions always seem to be the very things that have taken us to the gates of hell. Have you noticed? Abortion is a crime against humanity, WORSE than slavery (yes I said it, and I’m correct). When you kill a child who has not yet had the chance to live, you’re not just cancelling the life of that child, you are cancelling the lives of all the people that child might have sired, and all the people their children might have sired etc etc ad infinitum. Plot it out on a graph and it’s downright exponential. Every aborted baby is potentially a genocide, that’s not hyperbole.
If you’re carrying a child you really don’t want there ARE other options. Plenty of loving people out there who can’t have their own children but are willing to open their homes. Orphanages turned out many great and noteworthy people throughout history by the way, they aren’t all like the one in Annie.
Unquaccinated: You are male. If you don’t play the game – you don’t make the rules.
Lol, and there’s stupid talking point that always gets brought up number 2:
“You’re a man, you don’t get a say in this”
Urrrrgh 🤦🏼
I actually DO get a say in the abortion conversation for three very good reasons, are you ready?
1) That is genetically 50% my DNA in there, literally a piece of me. I have have as much right as the mother does over HER 50%.
2) I am on the hook legally and financially speaking, depending on what decision the mother makes (and rightly so). I’m also expected to subsidise the abortions of others through my tax dollars. The people who scream “keep your politics out of my womb” won’t keep their womb out of my wallet.
3) What if (silly me) I happen to actually love the mother or the unborn child? What if I don’t want her to go through the psychological trauma of an abortion procedure and the years of guilt and regret that will follow her afterwards like it did Kim in the comments above? What if I’m prepared to take full responsibility and raise and love the child on my own even if the mother isn’t willing to?
Nope, I don’t get a say because I’m a stupid man who owns a penis so I’m clearly not a part of society and therefore not allowed to have an opinion on any of it.
Yeah okay, chief 😑👍
well, a very tiny ” piece of you” then.
The hard work is done by the woman ONLY.
And it is also her health that is put at risk as pregnancy changes a lot of things in a woman’ s body/ health. Not always for the better.
Pregnancy and brenging a child to the world is absolutely NOT A MALE business.
But it is nice if a partner takes good care of the mother.
I am old enough to know that it is often nothe case
Um, okay… thank you?
I mean, you kind of just took what Jayem said and restated it. So I’d say re-read my reasons for why I disagree 🤷🏼♂️
You ARE correct in your last sentence though, it’s often NOT the case that men look after their woman and child. I absolutely hate it. Modern men are very slack, basically overgrown teenagers until they’re 30/35. I think too many of them use “this is a woman’s business” as a cop out, an excuse to absolve themselves of responsibility.
“Just let the chick get it taken care of and I am free and clear”. It’s infuriating, we need to be better.