News & Media Releases
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…
Australian sperm donor investigated after fathering 23 kids in one year
NZ Herald 29 November 2020 Family First Comment: Fortunately, most men seem to understand the long-term ramifications of this process – both for themselves and for the child who will want to know their biological father one day. Fathers matter. Fatherlessness is an issue for children. The man being touted as the unofficial most prolific sperm…
Premature New Zealand twins born at 23 weeks at Wellington Hospital
NZ Herald 29 November 2020 Family First Comment: “He and twin brother Riley were born at just 23 weeks and one day on March 3. It’s considered the edge of viability – babies born earlier are not usually resuscitated.” No – life begins at conception. That’s biology. When Declan Colquhoun was born, his aunt’s wedding ring…
Tennessee can enforce Down syndrome abortion ban
NZ Herald 21 November 2020 Family First Comment: A victory for the unborn child 😊 “A federal appeals court ruled Friday (Saturday NZT) that Tennessee can begin outlawing abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, as well as prohibit the procedure if it’s based on the race or gender of the fetus.” A federal…
Increase in abortions recorded in New Zealand since procedure’s decriminalisation
NewsHub 16 November 2020 Family First Comment: “Between the end of March and the start of August, just over 4900 women underwent an abortion within 21 weeks of pregnancy. That’s a rise of about 9%, compared to the data recorded in the same window over the previous three years.” Late term abortions have also increased. 😢😢…
March For Life – Wellington – 5 December 2020
The new abortion law – championed by Jacinda Ardern during the 2017 election campaign and passed this year as the country was preparing to go in to lockdown for COVID-19 – means that New Zealand now has one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world. A number of amendments designed to remove some…
Trump to Sign ‘Born Alive’ Executive Order to Protect Abortion Survivors
The Daily Signal 23 September 2020 Family First Comment: Thank you President Trump: “Today I am announcing that I will be signing the ‘born alive’ executive order to ensure that all precious babies born alive—no matter their circumstances—receive the medical care that they deserve,” the president said. “This is our sacrosanct moral duty.” In 2002,…
National MPs, pro-life groups, say abortion law too ill-defined
Radio NZ News 29 July 2020 Family First Comment: Justice Minister Andrew Little said there was “no such thing as full-term abortion, people who say that are idiots.”… Family First founder, Bob McCoskrie said Little was wrong and needed to check the law itself. “Andrew Little has admitted that late term abortions up to birth could happen under…
Select Committee Ignores Women With Post-Abortion Grief
Media Release 27 July 2020 A select committee considering a private members bill which allows for bereavement leave for miscarriages have come back with their report, and have rejected calls for the leave to be extended to allow support for women with post-abortion grief. When lodging the original bill, Labour MP Ginny Anderson said, “I…
Controversial philosopher Peter Singer defends his infanticide views
NewsHub 23 July 2020 Family First Comment: How gross. But with free speech, he’s entitled to be objectionable, flawed, idiotic, ignored, and just plain wrong. We need to be reminded of these gross views. “ Huhana Hickey, who has used a wheelchair since 1996 and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2010, said in February Singer is…
Planned Parenthood’s New York chapter disavows founder Margaret Sanger over racist eugenics
Fox News 21 July 2020 Family First Comment: Planned Parenthood (related to Family Planning in NZ) self-implodes because of its dark deathly history… “Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is removing the name of Margaret Sanger, the founder of the nation’s largest abortion provider, from its New York City clinic due to her “harmful connection…