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Is the government really sincere in preventing the torture and abuse of children in state care?



Media Release 22 November 2024


Right to Life asks the Prime Minister: Why is he, his government and parliament still in denial about the torture and killing of unborn New Zealanders in the care of the state?


Right to Life believes and hopes that a future Prime Minister will make a public apology for the torture and killing of hundreds of thousands of our precious children in their mother’s womb. This Prime Minister will not be able to say “we did not know” because among others, Right to Life has been a passionate vocal advocate and voice for the voiceless unborn and their mothers for nearly 50 years.


Shamefully our politicians have chosen, with the support of the media, to ignore our voice and have continued the war against women, the unborn and the family. A nation that kills its own children has no future and incurs the wrath of God.



Since 1978 more than 600,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children have been tortured and violently killed in the care of the state, by being poisoned, scraped out of their mother’s womb or violently dismembered, with their arms, legs and head ripped from their body. Each one of these children was a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation sent here to bless our nation. They were defenceless and had an inalienable right to life and a right to be respected and protected by the state. Their torture and killing was authorised and funded by the state as “health care”.


On 12th November 2024, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made a moving and genuine public apology to the nation for the torture which was inflicted on 200 children at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s. He said: ”it was horrific, it was heart-breaking, it was wrong”.


He made a solemn commitment: “We must do all we can to prevent abuse happening in the future” by firstly acknowledging the abuse which had occurred.


Right to Life believes that until the Prime Minister acknowledges the appalling torture of unborn children in abortions in the care of the state, we will continue to experience the torture of born children in the care of the state.


Respect and protection for the right to life of children begins in the womb at conception. If we lose respect for the unborn, then we will also lose respect for the born child.

In the 1970s the government refused to accept that children were being tortured in state care.


Since 1978 our governments have refused to accept that unborn children were being tortured and killed in the care of the state.


Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up in defence of our unborn and their precious mothers, who are suffering from the torture inflicted on them by the state in its care.

We will not be silenced until the extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is repealed.


Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.

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