Media Release 4th February 2023
Why are the Churches not speaking up in defence of the lives of God’s precious infants and their mothers? Should they not be aware of the appalling offence to the Creator of the violent destruction of His children, each one a unique and unrepeatable miracle of His loving creation endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life.
In the nineteenth century most of the Churches were silent about slavery. In the twenty-first century most of the Churches are silent about abortion.
Can it then be said that every abortion facility is open with the permission of the local Churches? Every year in New Zealand more than 13 000 children are murdered in their mother’s womb.
Since the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act was passed in 1977, to provide legal protection for the right to life of unborn children, more than 560,000 innocent children have been murdered in abortions in New Zealand as a state funded “reproductive health service.”
Every day an estimated 46 unborn children are poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or violently dismembered. Do the Churches not hear the silent scream of these children whose cries for life echo throughout the land?
How often should the Churches speak out in defence of the unborn when there are an estimated 46 unborn children murdered every day in New Zealand? Saint John Paul II preached that we should, “defend life from the rooftops,” and warned, “woe to those who don’t defend life.”
The Bible instructs us, Proverbs 11:12 –
“Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. Tarry not to come to their aid.” If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?”
The response from the majority of Churches has been a deafening silence. Why are the Christian churches accepting the murder of God’s precious infants as part of our culture? Only the Catholic Church spoke out in defence of the innocent in March 2020 at the passing of the Abortion Legislation Act.
The Churches should be defending life from the rooftops by continually appealing to government to take these steps to undo this great injustice:
Stop the war against women and the unborn.
To provide effective legislation to protect the lives of the unborn.
To legislate to recognise the humanity of the unborn from conception endowed with an inalienable right to life.
To cease the taxpayer funding of abortion.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.