22 November 2013

Media Release

Parliament’s Health Committee’s Report is a Road Map for a Culture of Death

Parliament’s Health Committee, chaired by Dr Paul Hutchinson has released its report on its enquiry into “Improving Children’s Health Outcomes and Preventing Child Abuse. The introductory paragraph of the section of the report on the subject of “Pre-conception care and sexual and reproductive health” is a road map for a culture of death. The report states,

“We recommend that the government develop a co-ordinated cross-sectoral action plan with the objective of giving New Zealand world-leading, best practice evidence- based sexuality and reproductive health education, contraception, sterilisation, termination, sexual health services, distributed to cover the whole country.”

Is this the New Zealand that we want to bequeath to our children?   I think not? Right to Life commends the Committee for a number of positive recommendations.  it is however concerned that an enquiry that was intended to prevent child abuse has recommendations that will increase child abuse. Right to Life must ask, was this section written by Family Planning? The recommendations are all in accordance with the plans that they have for our families and the phraseology was vintage Family Planning. The word ‘reproductive” appears an incredible forty -five times in this section. Reproductive is the word that Planned Parenthood and its population control allies in the United Nations and around the world claim include abortion services, which it does not. The recommendations of the Committee reflect those made by Family Planning they are:

• In respect to abortion, to be promoted as a human right, that the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977 and the Crimes Act 1961 be reviewed.

• That it be mandatory that all Schools teach sexuality education and reproductive health education programmes..

• That parents  be prohibited from having their children taken out of sexuality and reproductive education classes.

• Greater access to free contraceptives for teenagers, with the provision of long-acting reversible contraceptives.

Right to Life requests the government to uphold the right of schools to reject sexuality and reproductive health education programmes and the right of parents to take their children out of these classes.  Right to Life requests that the government provide abstinence school programmes, which promote self control and self respect. It would result in a reduction of unplanned pregnancies, STIs and abortions. The cost to the health budget is nil.

Abortion is the ultimate in child abuse. The Health Committee is recommending a review of the abortion law with the undisclosed motif of having abortion decriminalised, which is totally disingenuous. If the Health Committee were serious about reducing child abuse they would have recommended:

• That the law recognise the status of the unborn child, the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family, as a human being endowed with human rights, the foundation right being an inalienable right to life. Predictably, but to their shame, the Family Planning Association requested  the Committee  to oppose recognising the unborn child as a human being and a person ”as this could erode women’s access to abortion.” Family Planning knows that if the unborn were recognised as human beings, then it would be uncomfortable to kill them.

• The Committee should have called on Parliament to ensure that certifying consultants were held accountable for the lawfulness of the ninety-eight per cent of abortions authorised on the grounds of mental health. The Committee should be aware that these abortions are being authorised for socio- economic reasons masquerading as psychiatric.  

The Health Committee is failing the young people of New Zealand in believing that all our problems will be addressed by providing free contraceptives and making abortion more accessible, that is the killing of the innocent, more accessible. Abortionist and international contraception promoter Malcolm Potts [former director of Planned Parenthood of England] in 1976  quoted in ‘Sex and Social Engineering’ by Valerie Riches made the following statement. He said as people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate. The Committee’s recommendations would result in an increase in promiscuity, unplanned pregnancies, STIs and abortions. Right to Life requests the government to promote a culture of life by not implementing the Health Committee’s recommendations in this area.

Ken Orr

Spokesperson,

Right to Life,

ENDS

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