Parliamentary Democracy or Dictatorship?

Media Release

15 June 2023

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied”

Christopher Luxon, leader of the National Party, is asking the community to place its trust in him by electing him to lead a National government. Right to Life asks: should we trust him to protect us, when he is not prepared to protect our unborn children from being poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s wombs or being violently dismembered?

Neither is Christopher Luxon prepared to protect the lives of the vulnerable in our community from being given a lethal injection or being assisted in suicide.

Christopher Luxon was interviewed on Q & A programme on TV1, on 11 June 2023.

He was asked "As prime minister, if access to abortion is restricted in any way under your leadership, do you pledge to resign?" hIs response was an emphatic “yes”

Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon’s pledge to resign from parliament, if the abortion legislation is amended, under his leadership, to provide protection for defenceless unborn from being murdered in the womb, emphasises his determination to uphold the right to kill unborn children up to birth.

Tame asked today: "… if New Zealanders' access to contraceptives is restricted during your time as prime minister, do you pledge to resign?"

Christopher Luxon replied: "Yes. There's no change to abortion laws, access to funding, access to healthcare. Those laws have been settled. They're not changing under my government and frankly, they're not what New Zealanders are interested in right now."

Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon is seeking to impose his will on Parliament, to supress any opposition to the killing of the unborn and the vulnerable in our community. We then conclude :-

• Right to Life believes that it his intention to silence members of his caucus who are opposed to the killing of the unborn and who support increased legal protection for the unborn and protection for women from the violence of abortion. These are traditionally conscience issues.

• Right to Life believes that it is his intention to suppress and ignore citizens who seek to be a voice for the voiceless.

Those who govern do so with the permission of the governed. The fundamental requirement of those who seek to govern, is that they have the trust of electors, that they will protect their lives and the lives of their families. Those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be permitted to govern the born. Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon has sadly lost that trust.

Right to Life requests that Christopher Luxon becomes the truly pro-life leader that National and our nation desperately needs, by seeking the repeal of the End of Life Choice Act 2019, the Abortion Legislation Act 2020, and legislating for the recognition of the humanity of unborn children, endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life.

Right to Life makes no apology for passionately upholding our Parliamentary democracy and working for a just society that provides effective legal protection for every member of the human family from conception to natural death. We will not be silenced!

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.