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,

NZ Herald 17 June 2018 Family First Comment: “Those who argue for the decriminalisation of abortion do so by prioritising the right of the pregnant woman to self-determination regarding decisions affecting her own body. The right of the unborn child to life, even the humanity of the unborn baby must be considered secondary, or denied

NewsHub 17 June 2018 Family First Comment: “In the last century the whole world was scandalised by what the Nazis did to pursue the pureness of the race. Today, we are doing the same thing, with white gloves.” Exactly. www.chooselife.nz Pope Francis has called the practice of having an abortion after pre-natal tests have discovered

Controversial pregnancy announcement destroys #MyBodyMyChoice. #BodyInsideMyBody #OurBodiesMyChoice #CHOICE42 #LauraKlassen

BBC News 5 June 2018 Family First Comment: An abortion victim – who lived to tell her story….. “When Melissa Ohden was 14 she learned a shocking secret – her mother had tried to abort her. She was saved by a nurse who heard her crying as she lay among medical waste at a US

Daily Mail 3 June 2018 Family First Comment: “The truth is that modern abortion campaigners are fervent dogmatists who impose their new ideology everywhere, on any excuse. They know the truth about it. But they don’t mind. They want a very different world from the one we grew up in, and now they are going

Stuff co.nz 30 May 2018 Family First Comment: Well presented argument.. “It’s strange, but when a woman wants to have a baby, the moment she finds out she is pregnant she often sees that embryo inside her as a life, sometimes as part of the family, and may even have names lined up. And if

Karl du Fresne 28 May 2018 Family First Comment: Some refreshing commentary on the media bias in NZ – in this case, Radio NZ! “On Morning Report…Susie Ferguson questioned Abortion Law Reform New Zealand president Terry Bellamak about the implications of the Irish referendum result. That was a soft interview too, although Morning Report professes

‘In 2018, it should no longer be a part of our Crimes Act’ – PM discusses moving abortion to Health Act TVNZ One News 28 May 2018 Family First Comment: In 2018, it STILL involves the taking of a human life. #biology Jacinda Ardern said there are a number of “flow on effects” from abortion