Media Release 3 May 2019 A poll has found strong support for the unborn child having human rights and being legally protected once a heartbeat is detected (which can be between 6–12 weeks), and only a small minority thinking that life doesn’t begin until the child is born. In the independent poll by Curia Market Research of…

NZ Herald 30 April 2019 Family First Comment: “It is because planned or unplanned, abortion or miscarriage, women in both situations have suffered the loss of a child and need time to grieve that loss.” Rachael Wong is speaking at our Forum on the Family in July. forumonthefamily.nz Frances Everard argued that providing bereavement leave after…

BBC News 23 March 2019 Family First Comment: Superb technology, life-saving technology – but at 21 weeks, the unborn child may not be allowed to live if the Government adopts the recommendations of the Law Commission! Shocking. #TakeMyHandNotMyLife www.chooselife.nz Watch how the foetus jumps around the inside the womb in MRI scan footage See the…

Gisborne Herald 13 January 2019 Family First Comment: “Abortion is not just a women’s rights issue; it is a human rights issue. The point is not whether women are capable of making good decisions. It’s that no individual should hold such untrammelled power — the power of life and death — over another human being.” #chooselife…

ABC News 6 March 2019 Family First Comment: Labour – the party of death in Australia… “A federal Labor government would REQUIRE public hospitals to offer termination services as part of their Commonwealth funding arrangement.” #chooselife #takemyhandnotmylife Taxpayer-funded abortions will be offered in public hospitals as part of an election pledge to be outlined by Labor…

The Federalist 26 February 2019 Family First Comment: “Defending New York’s late-term abortion law as necessary to protect maternal and fetal health is disingenuous, if not downright dishonest. There is no situation in which late abortion is the only, or even the best, solution to a maternal or fetal health crisis.” #chooselife For babies with abnormalities,…

Stuff co.nz 26 February 2019  The US Senate has voted to block consideration of a measure that would punish any doctor who fails to provide medical care to a ‘child born alive’ after an attempted abortion. All but three Democrats voted against a procedural motion on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, denying it the…

NewsHub 12 February 2019 Family First Comment: “We were told our little girl had spina bifida. We were offered continuing pregnancy, ending pregnancy or a new option called fetal surgery – fixing her before she’s born. We had to do it.” #choosinglife 🎉 In a revolutionary new operation, an unborn baby has been removed from its…

Frank Stephens, a young man living with Down Syndrome, gives a powerful speech on his life experience and the importance of people living with Down Syndrome in science and research.

Guest editorial: Unborn Kiwis need more protection NZ Herald 3 January 2019 Family First Comment: Excellent commentary from a Christchurch mum… “It’s time to update our abortion law. It’s the 21st Century; the law is 40 years old, and it needs to be modernised. That’s what we keep hearing, and I couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately, the…

Media Release 23 December 2018  Family First NZ says it is deeply disturbed that a family is being turned away from New Zealand and torn apart because of one of the family members having Down syndrome. They are calling for the government to overturn this heartless decision immediately. “People with Down syndrome are human like…

Sth Australia Abortion Coalition December 2018 Most abortions in South Australia occur in the first trimester of pregnancy but a small number of women need an abortion later in pregnancy. SA abortion law1 imposes a limit on the gestational age at which abortion may be performed, which is out of step with medical evidence, public…