Media Release 14 December 2023
Right to Life calls upon the new government to reverse the previous Labour government’s policy of coercion and seduction to encourage doctors and nurses to enter the abortion workforce to murder unborn children, under the pretext that it is a health service.
Right to Life is alarmed at the increased number of doctors and nurses who were prepared to participate in the murder of innocent unborn children, the wounding of their mothers, who are also the victims of abortion.
The Director General of Health, Dr Diana Sarfati, was pleased to announce in the Abortion Services Annual Report 2023, on 1st November, that the workforce of doctors and nurses in abortion facilities in New Zealand doubled in 2022 to 348 from 162 in 2021. In 2021 the abortion workforce included 63 doctors and 61 nurses.
This dramatic increase is the result of a campaign conducted by the Ministry of Health in 2022, to increase the number of doctors and nurses who were prepared to enter the abortion workforce to violate their medical ethics by participating in the killing of defenceless unborn children. The Ministry of Health is failing the community by coercing health professionals to violate their medical ethics and participate in the killing of the unborn.
The Ministry has also endeavoured to increase the number of Maori health professionals in the abortion workforce, with the objective of encouraging more Maori women to choose abortion. In 2022, there were 7.2 percent of the abortion workforce who were Maori, a substantial increase on the 4.3 percent of the abortion workforce who were Maori in 2021.
The government is committed to increase the number of health professionals, who may facilitate the killing of the unborn. Practice nurses and midwives are now permitted to prescribe abortion pills for early medical abortions. It is the government’s intention to train midwives to perform surgical abortions.
Doctors and nurses know that unborn children are patients and that they are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family who deserve our respect and protection.
Right to Life applauds those courageous doctors and nurses who valiantly defend the right to life of every New Zealander from conception to natural death and refuse to succumb to the culture of death.
The community should demand that our health professionals uphold their medical practice based on the Hippocratic oath to do no harm. If we are silent and accept the killing of the unborn patient as a health service, then we will face increased pressure from the advocates of the culture of death, for the killing of born patients, who will fall victim to the End of Life Choice Act.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.