Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted

Media Release 8 July 2023

As a nation, we should put on sackcloth and ashes, mourn and do penance for the violence of abortion inflicted on God’s precious infants and their mothers.

This violence is authorised and funded by our government under the pretence of a “health service.”

Our government takes pride in welcoming 1500 refugees to our country each year, yet it refuses entry to 13,000 of our own children. Since 1978 more than 540 000 unborn children have been violently refused entry into the world.

Every day the equivalent of a one and a half classrooms of children are destroyed. These children have been violently poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or been painfully dismembered, all authorised and funded by the government as a so-called “health service”.

These children were sent by God to bless our nation as unique and unrepeatable miracles of His loving creation. It was God’s intention that each one was given a mission to bless our nation, their mission to love and be loved.

We should mourn with the mothers who have lost their children and who have been physically, psychologically and spiritually damaged. We should help them to seek the emotional and spiritual healing which God wants them to have after their loss of a child.

A study conducted in 2019 by the Elliot Institute in the United States found that 64% of women seeking an abortion had been coerced to have an abortion against their will by others.

We should also mourn with the fathers who are grieving the loss of their child.

The following poem gives expression to the grief and pain of a mother at the loss of her child in an abortion.

The day I found out about you

I didn't know what to do.

I broke down and cried

Because I knew I couldn't have you.

I went home that night

More scared than ever.

I fell asleep holding onto you

And you made me feel better.

I woke up the next morning

Saying good morning to you.

I ate a full breakfast

to nourish you too.

During the weeks I kept you protected,

Kept you warm and safe from the unexpected.

As I laid holding my belly, looking at the moon,

I realized, my baby, that I have fallen in love with you.

My son, my daughter, my unborn love,

You are a gift sent to me and daddy from above.

I have learned a love like no other

And that's the love between a child and mother.

Baby, tonight is my last night with you.

Tomorrow you will be with someone new.

His name is GOD and he is expecting you.

To my unborn child who I will never get to meet,

I hope when you're in heaven

You will forgive daddy and me.

I love you and I'm sorry.

The government inflicts a great injustice on the unborn, their mothers and fathers, when they perpetrate the fiction that the unborn child is not a human being and that it does not have a right to life until it is born.

The government does not want to acknowledge the grief and pain of women suffering from the killing of their children. Women seeking government funded post-abortion counselling may have two free counselling sessions, any further counselling sessions are required to be paid for by the grieving woman.

A nation that kills its own children is a nation without a future.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.