Media Release – Saving Downs 6 September 2017 Family First Comment: Mike Sullivan, head of Down’s syndrome advocacy group Saving Downs and father of Rebecca who has Down’s syndrome said: “Thinking of my daughter, I can’t believe that in 2017 in Aotearoa, New Zealand we would see the Labour Party clamouring for the introduction of…
The good news is that abortions are at the lowest rate since 1990. But some political parties want to ‘decriminalise’ abortion and consequently diminish safeguards that exist for vulnerable women. Decriminalisation will pave the way for late term and partial birth abortions, and ‘gendercide’ (abortion based on the sex of the unborn child, usually targeting…
NZ Herald 5 September 2017 Family First Comment: Dear Jacinda Will you allow abortions up to 40 weeks? Abortions for gender (e.g. not wanting a boy or girl)? Abortions for Downs Syndrome or other disabilities? Labour leader Jacinda Ardern’s commitment to decriminalise abortion has already sparked controversy. In the Newshub leaders’ debate last night she…
Jacinda Ardern: Abortion ‘shouldn’t be a crime’ Stuff co.nz 4 September 2017 Family First Comment: Thanks for the clarification, Jacinda. Apparently the murder of an unborn child should no longer be seen as ‘murder’. Disturbing. Makes all your platitudes and “relentless positivity” about child abuse and child welfare completely null and void. It’s all about…
Media Release 5 September 2017 Family First NZ is rejecting Labour leader Jacinda Ardern’s call for the decriminalisation of abortion and says that the existing safeguards are there to protect both women and children. “Jacinda Ardern says she supports the liberalising of abortion laws. But any changes would potentially pave the way for late term…
TVNZ One News 4 September 2017 Family First Comment: Yes folks – it is a human being!! But not according to Labour or Greens or ACT. “Doctors had warned her parents that she would face a raft of struggles. Little Clara is now six months old and weighs nine pounds.” WATCH & READ MORE: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/watch-barely-size-my-hand-parents-create-moving-video-collage-miracle-baby-clara-born-23-weeks-premature
NewsHub 29 August 2017 Auckland University students have voted to abolish an anti-abortion club from its student association. About 2700 students participated in a week-long online referendum, which asked whether the Auckland University Student’s Association (AUSA) should disaffiliate the ProLife Club. About 1600 students voted in favour of the motion. In a post on the…
Media Release: ProLife Auckland 29 August 2017 After a week long process of online voting, the Auckland University Students Association (AUSA) has provisionally declared that it will be punishing the Auckland University student club Prolife Auckland by disaffiliating them from the AUSA. This means that Prolife Auckland has been punished for holding and peacefully expressing…