Media Release 3 March 2020 2nd Reading of Abortion Legislation Bill tonight Family First NZ says that the government’s haste in ramming through the radical abortion bill demonstrates a shocking human rights abuse, all at the same time as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she wants to ‘bring kindness back’. The Prime Minister is also…
TVNZ One News 2 March 2020 Over 2000 pro-life activists marched up Auckland’s Queen St at the weekend, to show their opposition to abortion reform. They were making a stand against the upcoming conscience vote on the issue in Parliament. The proposed Bill would take abortion out of the Crimes Act and give women the…
19 years ago, 17-year-old Carolyn made a permanent decision to a temporary problem. She was unexpectedly pregnant, and she mistakenly thought that an abortion was the only solution. After the abortion, she attempted to take her own life. Fortunately, she was unsuccessful. “If only someone had let me know about adoption, or shown me an…
Pearl Vaafusuaga and her husband didn’t need to ‘think about it’ when they were told by doctors that their son had Down syndrome. As far as they were concerned, every human deserves life. As a mother of a Down syndrome son, she has an important message for politicians considering a radical abortion bill, and for…
We’ve placed an Open Letter to the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern from 12 women who have had abortions in two major newspapers this weekend – the Dominion Post yesterday, and the Herald on Sunday today. We’re very grateful to the financial supporters who have made it possible to speak loudly in this abortion debate about…
Jacqui has a powerful story to tell – a story which politicians should hear BEFORE they pass a radical and extreme abortion law in New Zealand. But the politicians on the Select Committee denied her the opportunity to make an oral submission to them. Watch Jacqui’s deeply personal and moving testimony. The testimony that the…
Media Release 14 February 2020 National MP Agnes Loheni – a member of the abortion select committee – has slammed the process of the committee, saying in her minority view that she disagreed with the select committee’s decision and criteria used to “deliberately and intentionally restrict the number of oral submissions on such an important…
Media Release 14 February 2020 The Select Committee report considering the bill resulting from Jacinda Ardern’s policy to liberalise abortion laws has come back with their report, and not surprisingly – because of the make-up of the committee and the muzzling of many people who wanted to make oral submissions – the majority have endorsed…