From: Maia Boonen [mailto:maiab@bsa.govt.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 February 2023 4:02 PM
To: Right to Life - Ken <ken@righttolife.org.nz>
Subject: RE: BSA Complaint #2023-001
Kia ora Ken
TVNZ has made the following comments in response to your complaint. Please take the time to review them, and if you wish to comment in response, could you please do so by 22 February 2023.
TVNZ makes the following comments in regard to the Right to Life referral.
• Standard 4: The programme denigrated unborn children by refusing to acknowledge that they were human beings from conception endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life. The programme discriminated against unborn children by promoting the false and unjust belief that if they were unwanted they could be killed. This was not a violation of human rights nor a crime against humanity, but a human right and health care.
Standard 5: The government wants us to accept that violence inflicted on women and their unborn is normal health care. The unborn child is a patient deserving of health care that will protect its life and promote its health. How can the broadcaster belief that poisoning the child, sucking it out of its mother’s womb or violently dismembering it is health care with the bodily remains of the child being treated as medical waste and general