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

Is the United States one of seven countries that ‘allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy?’ Washington Post 2 October 2017 Family First Comment: Interesting – the media are forced to admit that Trump was right  🙂 Fortunately, NZ is NOT one of the 7 countries – yet! The Facts The source of this

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

Stuff co.nz 5 October 2017 Family First Comment: Not only unconstitutional but also desperate, flawed, and dangerous! Universities should promote free speech, not muzzle it. Poor wording has forced a university students’ union to pull a U-turn on its stance towards an anti-abortion club. A provisional decision to disaffiliate ProLife Auckland from the Auckland University

Media Release 5 October 2017 Family First NZ is welcoming a decision by the Auckland University Students Association (AUSA) to reject attempts to disaffiliate the student club Prolife Auckland from the AUSA. “The original vote was a disturbing attempt by ideologues to shut down free speech, debate and views, and the AUSA was correct to

Stuff co.nz 24 March 2017 Family First Comment: This is a superb read – especially in light of the no-details-policy of Labour during the election campaign. It explains perfectly why Down Syndrome groups (as well as all of us) are right to be concerned when politicians push the ‘decriminalise abortion’ message and the hidden agenda

SBS News 25 September 2017 Family First Comment: “The first thousand days is a period of maximum developmental plasticity, that means it’s the period during which as an organism we are most susceptible to change by environmental experiences, and those changes can have lifelong consequences… Researchers examined all available research on development during the first

NewsHub 21 September 2017 Family First Comment: Euthanasia, marijuana, abortion – ACT want them all. #disturbing www.ValueYourVote.nz Called out ‘feminist’ politicians for failing to table bills on abortion Mr Seymour said politicians who call themselves feminists but have not written up bills to take abortion out of the Crimes Act should be called out. “Jacinda

The ‘parental notification’ law for teenage abortions currently means that while a parent has to sign a letter for their daughter to go on a school trip to the zoo or to play in the netball team, they are totally excluded from any knowledge or granting of permission for that same child to be put

The good news is that abortions are at the lowest rate since 1990. But some political parties want to ‘decriminalise’ abortion and consequently diminish safeguards that exist for vulnerable women. Decriminalisation will pave the way for late term and partial birth abortions, and ‘gendercide’ (abortion based on the sex of the unborn child, usually targeting

Charlotte Lozier Institute 2015 The Reality of Late-Term Abortion Procedures Introduction Of interest to the medical, moral, sociological, and political issues surrounding late-term abortion is the question of why women seek abortion after 20 weeks gestation. Any data considered to answer this question must be examined carefully for limitations. However, a greater understanding of the

NZ Herald 11 September 2017 Labour leader Jacinda Ardern says she’s the victim of a deliberate misinformation campaign about her stance on abortion. The question of where she drew the line was raised during her interview on this morning’s Newstalk ZB leaders breakfast segment with Larry Williams. Family First NZ’s Bob McCoskrie asked if Ardern