CNS News 18 January 2018 Family First Comment: Similar findings to our research published last weekend. A good trend – but still work to do. #bringingNZbacktolife www.chooselife.nz A new survey shows that while 51% of Americans describe themselves as “pro-choice,” 56% say abortion is “morally wrong” and 76% want “significant restrictions” on abortion. The poll…
Otago Daily Times 24 January 2018 Family First Comment: Very good question. Why do we not promote adoption? Much better option than abortion. #chooselife Why are there not more child adoptions, asks Ken Orr, the Right to Life spokesman. There are in New Zealand about 100 adoptions each year, down from a peak of 3967…
Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost The Atlantic 18 January 2018 Family First Comment: “Scientific progress is remaking the debate around abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, the case that led the way to legal abortion, it pegged most fetuses’ chance of viable life outside the womb at 28…
Stuff co.nz 21 January 2018 Abortion law reform is back on the table with a new Government but not everyone supports the move to take abortion out of the Crimes Act. Jo Moir investigates the arguments for and against liberalising abortion. Marina Young was 20 when she and her boyfriend found out they were having…
Media Release 21 January 2018 An independent poll of New Zealanders by Curia Market Research has found significant support for greater time limits on abortion, including from those who generally support abortion. There was surprisingly small support for the current Crimes Act time limit of 20 weeks, and overwhelming rejection of any extension to the…
TVNZ One News 19 January 2018 Family First Comment: Trump delivers – again! www.chooselife.nz Moving to solidify its standing with social conservatives, the Trump administration is creating an office to protect the religious rights of medical providers, including those who oppose abortion. The announcement Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services drew immediate…
LifeSite News 4 January 2018 Family First Comment: This is the perspective that isn’t being told – or listened to! “I’m the child of a stranger, who altruistically sold me, his biological daughter, to a family he would never meet. He signed away his rights to be a father to me, and my parents gladly…
LifeSite News 8 January 2018 Family First Comment: The untold stories… www.chooselife.nz A study published in December in the peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons reveals that women suffer from a wide variety of severely traumatic psychological effects from abortion, effects that often last for many years and have life-changing consequences. The study also…