Public Discourse 23 July 2018 The beautiful, happy 2018 Gerber Baby, Lucas, is lucky to be alive. Most children diagnosed with Down syndrome in utero are now killed before birth. Ever since 1928, Gerber Baby Foods has illustrated its products with a sketch of a beautiful child who was chosen after a nationwide contest. Beginning

NewsHub 27 July 2018 Family First Comment: An excellent response…. “When we began our speeches, and the counter-protestors blared their music louder and louder and shouted at us, we carried on. We spoke of the lives lost, and of the hope we have for a better tomorrow, in which women are supported and given hope

NZ Herald 25 July 2018 Family First Comment: The report says “Both sides of the abortion debate met on Parliament’s front lawn today in an orderly demonstration of free speech.” Orderly? No – sadly. The pro-abortion group played loud music and shouted during the Voice for Life speeches, and one of their members went through

Media Release 25 July 2018 Here is the message being presented on Parliament Grounds today, on behalf of MARINA YOUNG, founder of BUTTONS PROJECT, and spokesperson for FAMILY FIRST NZ. I feel that often we get blasé about statistics. However, seeing 13,000+ pairs of booties with each pair symbolising a baby lost to abortion is

Society for the Protection of Unborn Children 11 July 2018 Family First Comment: Compulsory reading for anyone who is concerned for the health and wellbeing of women… www.chooselife.nz Here are ten reasons why allowing the abortion pill to be taken at home is dangerous and must be opposed. 1. Complications for medical abortion are common

Karl du Fresne 17 July 2018 Family First Comment: Highlighting media bias, with the inconvenient truth… “What struck me most while listening to McCarthy and Lohr is that in a 28-minute discussion about abortion, they somehow managed to avoid a single reference to the word “baby” or even “foetus”. The abortion debate has evidently been

LifeNews 28 June 2018 Family First Comment: What a refreshing contrast to the previous President, and to the alternate candidate Hillary Clinton! “We all have a duty to defend the most basic and fundamental human right — the right to life. As President I am dedicated to protecting the lives of every American including the

NZ Herald 28 June 2018 Family First Comment: And this is the key question… “The Minister of Justice Andrew Little has stated that the Government wants the abortion law to be treated “as a health issue”. Various recent media articles repeat the theme that “abortion should be taken out of the Crimes Act”, without attempting

Media Release 20 June 2018 According to information received from the Law Commission by Family First under the Official Information Act, the Law Commission has received almost 3,500 submissions regarding the abortion law review. 58 submissions were from organisations and the remaining 3,360 were from individuals / families. “This is a very strong response given

Stuff co.nz 19 June 2018 Family First Comment: “The rate will continue to drop as knowledge of the prenatal development of the unborn child increases, and as an increasingly pro-life younger generation become parents themselves,” spokeswoman Marina Young said. “:The ‘bunch of cells’ argument which has driven the right-to-abortion argument is now just ‘flat-earth science’.”

Media Release 20 June 2018 SELECT COMMITTEE AND ABORTION SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE MISLED PUBLIC Family First NZ says that official statistics now collected on parental notification for teenage abortions show that a third of girls aged under 16 who have an abortion don’t tell their parents. This is in complete contradiction to what the Select Committee

Media Release 19 June 2018 Family First NZ is welcoming the lowest rates of abortion since 1990 – but is sounding a warning that this positive trend will be reversed if Parliament removes the safeguards in the current abortion law and introduce extreme abortion laws which has been shown overseas to place women at risk,