News & Media Releases
Ad: Isn’t it Time the Law Reflects the Science?
Learn more about the Dobbs v. Jackson case: https://www.sba-list.org/scotus Paid for by Susan B. Anthony List Education Fund
Bernard Moran: How the “Born Alive” rule stymies legal protection of preborn babies
I guess many people wonder why Parliament cannot pass a law recognising a preborn baby as a unique human person. The “Born Alive” rule stands in the way. A lawyer once explained to me that the rule is “settled” in western Parliamentary common law and NZ alone can’t dispense with it. The Born Alive rule…
US Supreme Court takes up major challenge to abortion rights
NewsHub 18 May 2021 Family First Comment: Superb! “In the Roe v. Wade decision, subsequently reaffirmed in 1992, the court said that states could not ban abortion before the viability of the fetus outside the womb, which is generally viewed by doctors as between 24 and 28 weeks. (yeah right!) The Mississippi law would ban abortion…
Safe Areas Bill ‘Poorly Drafted’, ‘Deeply Flawed’ – Legal Opinion
Media Release 27 April 2021 A legal opinion by a leading QC has labelled the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill as poorly drafted and deeply flawed, and says that Parliament should not pass it because it diminishes basic human rights. Grant Illingworth QC questions in his opinion “where should the line be…
Planned Parenthood disavows its founder (but not abortion)
BioEdge 25 April 2021 Family First Comment: Still a racist and dangerous organisation – irresepective of their new virtue signalling “Nearly 80% of Planned Parenthood’s clinics are located within walking distance of neighborhoods occupied predominantly by black and Hispanic residents. Despite constituting only 13 percent of the female population, black women represent more than one-third of…
Argentinian pro-abortion leader dies during abortion procedure
ReMix 15 April 2021 Family First Comment: What’s most interesting about this very very sad story is that we couldn’t find any mainstream media reporting of it – and definitely not on the ALRANZ website….. “radical pro-abortion supporter Maria de Valle Gonzalez Lopez died during what she labeled her “dream” abortion operation. She was 23 years…
New Law Will Ignore Women With Post-Abortion Grief
Media Release 24 March 2021 Politicians will today vote for a new law which will allow employees to be eligible for three days of bereavement leave following the unplanned end of pregnancy by miscarriage or stillbirth. Sadly, politicians have rejected calls for the leave to be extended to allow support for women with post-abortion grief. “We…
FAMILY MATTERS: Research & Experience Confirm The Harms Of Abortion
The common narrative we hear from supporters of abortion – all of whom ironically are not at any risk of abortion themselves – is that abortion is a simple medical procedure, involves only the pregnant woman, and that life resumes as normal once the abortion has taken place. Nothing to see here. Well, actually, there’s…
Research Report Summarises Risks of Abortion To Women
Media Release 6 March 2021 A research paper for health professionals which reviews international evidence up to 2020 about the relationship between abortion and the physical and mental health of women says that abortion is associated with a wide range of adverse physical and psychological outcomes, and it is essential that women are made fully…
COVID Vaccine – Making an informed decision for your family
We’re being asked on a regular basis – what’s Family First’s view of the COVID-19 vaccine? Here’s some of the important questions that we know you may be asking: Is it true that the new COVID vaccines have not undergone normal safety testing procedures? Is it true that the new COVID vaccines contain tissues from…
Permanently legalising home abortions is a terrible idea
The Telegraph 8 December 2020 Family First Comment: Disturbing reading from the UK where ‘home abortions’ have also been authorised (similar to NZ)… “Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the aftermath from the pills-by-post process to include sepsis, hemorrhaging, embolisms, renal failure and trauma to pelvic organs, among other medical complications. A lack of adequate…
Kmart introduces dolls with Down syndrome to New Zealand shelves
NZ Herald 3 December 2020 Family First Comment: Excellent… [Kmart] hopes these dolls will help normalise “conditions like Down syndrome, so that young sufferers don’t feel different from their friends”. “We want children to see themselves represented in our doll ranges and we want to help children learn more about people who are different from…