Family First Comment: Stop NZ adopting an extreme abortion law like this. www.chooselife.nz

NewsTalk ZB 16 February 2018 The Justice Minister says even if abortion is removed from the Crimes Act, legal protections must remain for unborn children. The current legal starting point for abortion is that it is illegal, with women having to prove they will suffer mental or physical harm if forced to continue their pregnancy.

Abortion watchdog wants changes to the law but says nobody is listening Stuff co.nz 15 February 2018 Family First Comment: The reason nobody is listening is because NZers don’t want the abortion laws weakened or loosened. And Labour and Greens can expect a fight if they try. Join us. Sign our petition http://www.chooselife.org.nz/sign-the-petition/ The Abortion

Media Release 16 February 2018 Family First NZ says that the Labour government has no mandate to weaken abortion laws and the public has no appetite for the abortion laws to be liberalized. “The Abortion Supervisory Committee complains that nobody is listening. That is the way it should be. Polling of New Zealanders released last

Family First Comment: Reprinted from 2014 – but significant in the light of Ms Davidson’s run for the Green’s co-leader position “…the most serious, and tragic of the contradictions in Marama Davidson’s op-ed piece: “I acknowledge that abortion is not the ideal solution to unplanned pregnancies. I support the continual plea for better education, improved

CNS News 18 January 2018 Family First Comment: Similar findings to our research published last weekend. A good trend – but still work to do. #bringingNZbacktolife www.chooselife.nz A new survey shows that while 51% of Americans describe themselves as “pro-choice,” 56% say abortion is “morally wrong” and 76% want “significant restrictions” on abortion. The poll

Otago Daily Times 24 January 2018 Family First Comment: Very good question. Why do we not promote adoption? Much better option than abortion. #chooselife Why are there not more child adoptions, asks Ken Orr, the Right to Life spokesman. There are in New Zealand about 100 adoptions each year, down from a peak of 3967

Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost The Atlantic 18 January 2018 Family First Comment: “Scientific progress is remaking the debate around abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, the case that led the way to legal abortion, it pegged most fetuses’ chance of viable life outside the womb at 28

Stuff co.nz 21 January 2018 Abortion law reform is back on the table with a new Government but not everyone supports the move to take abortion out of the Crimes Act. Jo Moir investigates the arguments for and against liberalising abortion. Marina Young was 20 when she and her boyfriend found out they were having

Media Release 21 January 2018 An independent poll of New Zealanders by Curia Market Research has found significant support for greater time limits on abortion, including from those who generally support abortion. There was surprisingly small support for the current Crimes Act time limit of 20 weeks, and overwhelming rejection of any extension to the

TVNZ One News 19 January 2018 Family First Comment: Trump delivers – again! www.chooselife.nz Moving to solidify its standing with social conservatives, the Trump administration is creating an office to protect the religious rights of medical providers, including those who oppose abortion. The announcement Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services drew immediate

LifeSite News 4 January 2018 Family First Comment: This is the perspective that isn’t being told – or listened to! “I’m the child of a stranger, who altruistically sold me, his biological daughter, to a family he would never meet. He signed away his rights to be a father to me, and my parents gladly