News & Media Releases

No abortion changes until ‘well into next year’

Radio NZ News 2 November 2017 Family First Comment: Good! More time to get ready to fight for the welfare of women and the unborn child. Any overhaul of the country’s abortion laws won’t happen until well into next year – at the very earliest, the Labour Party says. During a Newshub election debate, Jacinda
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Ethical Case for Abolishing all Forms of Surrogacy

StopSurrogacyNow November 2017 Family First Comment: The NZ Herald is currently pushing this issue without a countering view. Here’s one (of many)…. “Scientific studies prove that maternal-neonate separation in the crucial months after birth disturbs the baby’s heart rate and sleep and other biological systems, predisposing the child to difficulties later in life which can
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‘I am a mass murderer,’ former abortionist tells Congress

LifeSiteNews 2 November 2017 Family First Comment: The comments of Dr. Kathi Aultman, a board certified Ob/Gyn and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists “I love to meet adults that I delivered, but it’s always bittersweet because I am reminded of all the people I will never meet because I aborted
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Athletics: Abortion still haunts track star

NZ Herald 29 October 2017 Family First Comment: Another powerful article in the NZ Herald on abortion! “The procedure itself is described in her book fleetingly, but unflinchingly. “All of the crying left me so numb that I barely remember the cold instruments as they brushed against my skin,” she writes. “It was quick, but
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Christchurch mum – Choosing not to have an abortion

Christchurch mum Harriet Jackson on choosing not to have an abortion NZ Herald 27 October 2017 Family First Comment: A superb read… Mum of four Harriet Jackson’s baby died 14 hours after birth due to a severe birth defect. The Christchurch woman chose not to terminate despite being given the worst case scenario by medical
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New Labour-led Government should protect women and their unborn children

Media Release -Voice for Life 20 October 2017 Family First Comment: “When people talk of ‘decriminalisation’, they usually mean liberalising the practice of abortion. Overseas, ‘decriminalisation’ has seen abortions performed under unsafe and unsanitary conditions, increased abortions of babies with disabilities, and increasing numbers of abortions in the second and third trimesters – abortions that
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AUSA Protects Young Nats, But Not ProLife Group

Media Release 12 October 2017 Family First NZ says that in the latest bizarre twist in the debacle covering the Auckland University Students Association’s (AUSA) attempt to disaffiliate the student club Prolife Auckland, a similar attempt to disaffiliate the Young Nats has been blocked by the AUSA. In the latest round of Referenda questions for
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