Media Release 25 July 2024
Right to Life makes no apology for speaking up in defence of unborn children who are killed in state care, sanctioned and funded by the state, they have no other voice but ours.
Right to Life is opposed to violence against children, both those who are born and those unborn. The Royal Commission covered the care of children in state and faith based care during the period from 1950 to 1999.
The report revealed that an estimated 200,000 children were abused while in care. The report stated that the abuse of children was “a national disgrace” and that children were “exposed to unimaginable physical emotional, mental and sexual abuse, severe exploitation and neglect.”
The Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon said that the report revealed: ”a dark and sorrowful day”. The Prime Minister has committed to making a public apology to the nation on 12 November 2024, for the abuse of children in state care. The leader of the opposition, Christopher Hipkins described the report as “a harrowing and confronting account of atrocities.”
Right to Life challenges the Prime Minister and Christopher Hipkins on their consistency on being implacably opposed to violence against children in state care.
How can you really be opposed to violence against children in care, when you sanction state-funded violence against unborn children who are tortured and killed before they are born, by being poisoned, sucked out of their mother’s womb or being violently and painfully dismembered. How can you say that you are opposed to violence and abuse of children after birth, but you accept the killing of children before their birth?
Right to Life requests the government to protect the unborn child from violence by repealing the extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and by legislating to recognise the status of the unborn child as a legal person from conception, endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life.
Right to Life asks the government : When are you going to establish a Royal Commission to investigate the state funded killing of more than 16,000 unborn children in the care of the state each year in New Zealand?
Ken Orr
Spokesperson
Right to Life (N.Z.) Inc.