‘She is still a child’ – Mum ‘vowing’ to change law around teenage abortion OneNewsNow 28 August 2015 A mother whose daughter’s school organised an abortion for the teenager without parental consent is petitioning parliament for a law change to prevent it happening again. Under New Zealand law a child can have an abortion organised

‘She had to go through it alone’ – mum wants abortion law change NZ Herald 27 August 2015 A woman has told politicians the harrowing background to her daughter’s suicide attempt, in a bid to have abortion law changed. Hillary Kieft, of Stratford, appeared before the Justice and Electoral select committee and, with pauses to

Hillary Kieft talks to Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking about her petition to change the parental notification laws (28 Aug 2015) http://bobmccoskrie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Newstalk-ZB-Hillary-Kieft-with-Mike-Hosking.mp3

and the response from National MP Judith Collins who originally sponsored a parental notification law change in 2004.

LifeSiteNews 19 August 2015 Today’s video just might be the most horrifying of the seven videos released by the Center for Medical Progress exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted babies. But then again it’s kind of hard to imagine what could be worse than previous videos: like the

LifeSiteNews 11 August 2015  Presidential candidate Ben Carson has said the argument that abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother is “spurious.” Carson was asked about a statement from Hillary Clinton, which condemned 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls for saying “outrageous” things about women’s health. CBS This Morning co-host Norah O’Donnell pressed the

LifeSiteNews 4 August 2015 I’m about to show you something that, if you’re alive and have a heartbeat, will deeply disturb you, and then make you hopping mad. I warn you, it’s graphic. But everybody needs to see this. Because this is the truth. And even if the truth is difficult, and gruesome, and challenging,

NZ Herald 1 August 2015 A baby’s life was saved by a pioneering operation carried out when she was still in her mother’s womb. Michelle Cannon had been advised to have an abortion after receiving the devastating news that her unborn daughter had a rare and usually deadly condition. Fluid was building up in the

Reuters 22 July 2015 Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers are calling for Planned Parenthood to be investigated and its federal funding eliminated after two videos that critics said showed the reproductive health care group is involved in the illegal sale of aborted fetal tissue. White House hopeful Senator Rand Paul introduced an amendment to a

Note: Family Planning in NZ is affiliated with Planned Parenthood. Stuff co.nz 15 July 2015 A US anti-abortion group has released an undercover video of an official at the family planning group Planned Parenthood discussing in graphic detail how to abort a foetus to preserve its organs for medical research – and also the costs associated

Bay of Plenty Times 30 June 2015 The number of abortions had by Bay of Plenty women has decreased 8 per cent since 2013, new data reveals. Statistics New Zealand data shows fewer Bay of Plenty women had abortions in 2014 than in any year since records began in 2004. Bay women had 667 abortions