Media Release
 

Nurses Refuse to Assist In The Killing Of Unborn Children
 

Right to Life commends nurses employed by the Auckland District Health Board for refusing to assist in 2nd trimester abortions. We encourage more nurses to follow their conscience and refuse to assist in abortions. In doing so they would be upholding the hallowed traditions of their noble profession to defend life and to uphold the sanctity of life of every human being from conception to natural death. If every nurse in New Zealand refused to assist in the killing of unborn children, the killing in our Public Hospitals would cease tomorrow.

Nurses assisting in 2nd trimester abortions are confronted with the humanity of the child that has been brutally dismembered in the womb. It is their task to reassemble the dismembered child to ensure that the head, arms, legs and body have been removed from the sanctuary of the mother’s womb. One should be moved with compassion for young nurses committed to defending life being required to participate in such a soul searing experience. As a community we should weep for what we allow to be done to our children.

Shame on the Auckland District Health Board [ADHB] for being a willing provider of the termination of innocent and defenceless unborn children. The Abortion Supervisory Committee’s report to Parliament for 2008 disclosed that in 2007, 6216 unborn children were aborted in the Board’s hospitals. Unborn children are persons and patients of the Board, they are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. They have a right to receive care and protection of their human rights, the foundation right being the right to life. The Board refers to abortion as being a “service”. Abortion is not a service for the unborn children who are cruelly and violently killed; it is not a service for mothers who will suffer a lifetime of regret and physical, emotional and psychological suffering at the loss of their child.

Right to Life requests that the Board fulfils it duty to protect its unborn patients and their mothers by exercising its statutory right to refuse to participate in the killing of unborn children by refusing to hold a license to perform abortions. We call upon Parliament the defender of human rights to take urgent action to protect the human rights of unborn children and protect the health and welfare of their mothers.
 
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