Media Release 20 July 2023
Right to Life has presented a complaint to the United Nations Committee in Geneva against the Labour-Green government of New Zealand for inflicting torture on our unborn which we hold to be in violation of the UN Convention against torture.
The UN Committee is reviewing the performance of our government in upholding the Convention this month, their last review was in 2015.
The complaint is that the government has implemented a state authorised and funded system of torture inflicted on innocent and defenceless unborn children.
Every year more than 13 000 unborn New Zealanders are inflicted with torture and death. We believe that this treatment of our unborn children is in violation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment.
The unborn child is a human person, at the moment of conception the unborn child is endowed with an inalienable right to life deserving of respect and protection. Torture is violence inflicted on the human person, it is a violation of human rights and is always to be condemned.
Right to Life notes that the Convention states, “considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, recognition of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom justice and peace in the world,”
This statement clearly gives recognition to the inalienable rights of unborn children, who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. Why then are they being ignored?
Why does the government continue to allow the torture and killing of unborn children?
The international community, including the New Zealand government, refuse to recognise that the government sanctioned and funded murder of unborn children is institutionalised torture and is openly being practised as a matter of public policy.
The violent murder and torture inflicted on a child, by tearing the arms and legs off a child in the womb, is an unspeakable injustice, as is the starvation of a child in a chemical abortion. It is also violent torture inflicted on women who are the second victim of abortion. Why is there no cry of outrage from UN Committees? Why is there no cry of outrage from the community?
Are you aware that the United Nations promotes the torture of the unborn?
The United Nations actually promotes abortion, and the torture of the unborn, and denounces any protection of women from violence of abortion as torture of women.
Right to Life finds it unbelievable that the UN also proclaims that any attempts which seek to deny women the right to kill their unborn children by the violence of abortion, are in themselves a form of torture. It is extraordinary that the United Nations is promoting the violation of its own convention opposing torture.
Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up for those who have no voice and who have been tortured and murdered in our hospitals, on the pretext that it is a health service.
We demand that the New Zealand government stop the torture of the unborn, the weakest and most defenseless members of our human family.
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.