Family Integrity

Tag: Abortion

  • Cindy Kiro’s term ending!

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    1. Cindy Kiro’s term ending!
    Herald on Sunday 25 January 2009
    Controversial Children’s Commissioner Cindy Kiro will finish her five-year term in April. The Ministry of Social Development has advertised the high-profile role, with an annual salary of $195,100 . Critics have accused Kiro as being a toothless figurehead, but she has defended her record as an independent voice for children. READ MORE
    Family First Comment : Cindy Kiro has been openly hostile towards Family First, and in fact to any people who may have a christian faith – no matter how qualified they are to speak up. Apart from completely misrepresenting the facts in the smacking debate and mispresenting Family First’s position, last February she attempted to discredit the 300,000+ NZ’ers who had signed the petitions on the anti-smacking law by saying that previous generations of parents didn’t parent as positively and were less qualified in knowing how to raise their children than parents of today !!
    We also would like to know why she was
    – silent after the pathetic sentence handed down to the caregivers of Ngatikauri Ngati who abused the little 3 year old to death
    – silent during the Trevor Mallard incident during the “It’s Never OK” Violence Campaign funded by the government.
    – silent when the prostitution report from South Auckland was released last year highlighting the number of young teenagers prostituting themselves
    – silent when Police refused to prosecute a 21 year old who got a 13 year old pregnant (after starting the relationship when she was 11)
    – silent over the recent cancelling of the sentence for a woman who pleaded guilty to infanticide
    – silent over the ultimate child abuse of abortion
    ….yet is more interested in the rights of children to be able to purchase spray cans of paint for the purposes of tagging, and wanting to monitor every child with a social worker as soon as they are born!!!

    The problem is not just with Dr Kiro but with the office itself.  Children’s interests are best served in the context of their own family . Government support for children must be through their families, not apart from families. Any office or structure which even appears to separate children from their parents and families will be destructive in the long run – no matter how well intentioned. Laws are already in place which protect children in seriously dysfunctional families.

    If the National government is serious about doing away with unecessary governmental spending , this would be a good place to start – rather than just cancelling a few conferences. So why are they advertising for a new Commissioner?????


    READ MORE “Parents deserve the right to raise their children.”

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  • Doctors get $5m to okay abortions

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4795186a11.html

    Doctors get $5m to okay abortions

    The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 17 December 2008

    Doctors who approved abortions were paid more than $5 million in the year to June an increase of $1.5 million or more than 30 per cent in four years.

    The Abortion Supervisory Committee’s annual report says there were 18,382 abortions in 2007, 448 more than in 2006.

    Every abortion must be approved by two doctors, one of whom must be a gynaecologist or obstetrician. In the year to June, the Government paid 196 certifying consultants a total of $5,048,096.

    Abortions are legal in New Zealand under certain conditions, including when pregnancy would endanger the mother’s life, her physical or mental health, or if there is a risk of the foetus being handicapped. More than 98 per cent of abortions are authorised on the grounds of risk to mental health.

    Earlier, a High Court judicial review found there was reason to doubt the lawfulness of many abortions and that the committee was wrong to interpret the law as meaning it had no power to review consultants’ decisions.

    The committee has appealed against the ruling and the anti-abortion lobby group Right to Life, which brought the High Court challenge, has cross-appealed. The case is likely to be heard early next year.

    New Zealand has 19.6 abortions a year per 1000 women aged 15-44.

  • Research Shows Need for Renewed Debate on Abortion

    MEDIA RELEASE

    1 November 2008

    Research Shows Need for Renewed Debate on Abortion

    Family First NZ says that the building body of evidence about the potential harm of abortion to the mother means that the debate on the abortion should be reopened.

    The University of Otago study found that women who had an abortion faced a 30% increase in the risk of developing common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.

    “Yet this message is nothing new or controversial. It is consistent with research worldwide which is being done into the effects of abortion,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

    Last week, a study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research also found a link between abortion and psychiatric disorders and refuted a American Psychiatric Association report released in August claiming abortion causes no mental health issues for women. The research team found induced abortions resulted in increased risks for a myriad of mental health problems ranging from anxiety to depression to substance abuse disorders.

    In 2007, an Australian research team from the University of Queensland found a close connection between abortion and drug and alcohol abuse. And earlier this year, The Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK recommended updating abortion information leaflets to include details of the risks of depression. They said that consent could not be informed without the provision of adequate and appropriate information.

    “With 98% of abortions in NZ being performed on the basis of the mental health of the mother, it is time that the research on the post-abortion mental health outcomes was given equal weight with the pre-abortion claims.”

    “Along with protecting the rights of the unborn child, we need to protect the rights of women to know the medical facts in order that they can make fully informed decisions,” says Mr McCoskrie.

    Family First NZ is calling for a law which requires informed consent (including ultrasound) for all potential abortions, and counselling to be provided only by non-providers of abortion services. Parental notification of teenage pregnancy and abortion should happen automatically except in exceptional circumstances approved by the court.

    ENDS

    For More Information and Media Interviews, contact Family First:

    Bob McCoskrie – National Director

    Mob. 027 55 555 42

  • Family Integrity #430 — The Kiwi Party’s 1st Fifteen – policies, LIVE on Youtube!

    25 September 2008 – Family Integrity #430 — The Kiwi Party’s 1st Fifteen – policies, LIVE on Youtube!

    Dear All,
    For your information.
    Craig Smith

    The Kiwi Party’s 1st Fifteen – policies,

    LIVE on Youtube!

    Click on links below to view Gordon

    Copland, MP, addressing policy.

    Feel free to ‘cut and paste and pass along’ the information in this email to those on your mailing list, or to any web discussion groups you are on, or simply forward to others.

    Or, if talking to others, tell them to type ‘Kiwi Party’s 1st 15′ in the YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) search box to access all videos.

    No 1

    Length – 03:17

    Repeal of the ‘anti-smacking law’, and establishing a Royal Commission to investigate family breakdown.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnjZZvJWUkk

    No 2

    Length – 02:57

    Establishing lower thresholds for, and making referenda binding.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NnbXxIKRWI

    No 3

    Length – 02:57

    Repeal of law legalizing and legitimizing prostitution.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjT60cD1tFo

    No 4

    Length – 04:48

    Abortion

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRPexIOkDqc

    No 5

    Length – 04:03

    Increase minimum wage to $15/hr and provide tax credits to employers.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HpcY2GHpM

    No 6

    Income splitting for married couples, and GST off Rates.

    Length – 02:47

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ngvc_KuD8

    No 7

    Length – 03:42

    Housing affordability.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NeA6K7Az_s

    No 8

    Length – 03:12

    Promoting and aiding strong marriages and families.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xFOD1cG93w

    No 9

    Length – 02:30

    Education – funding follows students.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXAl4IE4C8A

    No 10

    Length – 03:19

    Alcohol and drugs.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsr6U8ZGZE

    No 11

    Length – 03:03

    Justice – Law and Order – Victim Restoration to become primary focus of sentencing, plus longer, non-parole sentences for serious crime.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYHc-YmMpgo

    No 12

    Length – 02:22

    Health and hospital waiting lists…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeqtW_2UhDE

    No 13

    Length – 04:46

    Right of access to outdoors, and total ban on 1080.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOe_xtv_FE

    No 14

    Length – 04:07

    Immigration.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w1Ax0OT408

    No 15

    Length – 05:01

    Climate change, Kyoto, and the Emissions Trading Scheme.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHXVxv2EPE

  • Nats to give cash from family body to churches

    Nats to give cash from family body to churches
    Dominion Post and Christchurch Press 09 September 2008


    A National government will axe the Families Commission and give the savings to community groups, including churches, leader John Key has told a Family First forum. …
    The National leader was questioned on the removal of section 59 of the Crimes Act, which took away the defence of reasonable force for parents who hit their children. National supported the legislation but has been under pressure from lobby groups such as Family First to repeal it. One man asked Mr Key whether he would restore his right to “discipline my child lovingly”. Mr Key said that he sought a compromise on section 59 because it was clear that Labour was going to force the bill through anyway. He repeated his previous pledge that if he saw evidence the legislation was not working he would repeal it. “To this point I haven’t seen such evidence.” But he added that if an upcoming referendum – which calls for parental correction through a smack to be lawful – gave a strong mandate for change then a future government would need to listen to the result.
    Mr Key was also asked whether he supported a law change on abortion. He said it was a conscience issue, but he did not support any change to the existing law.
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4685886a23917.html
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4685704a6160.html?source=email

  • Anti-smack bill reform possible, says Key

    Anti-smack bill reform possible, says Key


    NZ Herald September 09, 2008

    The National Party will consider changing the anti-smacking laws if New Zealanders demand changes in a referendum, leader John Key says. The law was hot on the agenda at the NZ Forum on the Family in South Auckland yesterday, with Mr Key saying a strong referendum result should give a National government the confidence to change the legislation. Family First NZ hosted the event which gathered around 70 “pro-family groups” to listen to party leaders present their family-based policies.
    Act leader Rodney Hide said: “You don’t need a referendum to convince me that this legislation is wrong.
    United Future leader Peter Dunne said he would not change the existing law because of his belief in the worth of the child.
    The other key concerns raised were whether civil unions would be abolished and whether abortion law would remain the same under a new government. Mr Key, Mr Hide and Mr Dunne all said there would be no changes made to civil unions. Mr Dunne said United Future would review abortion law.
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=144&objectid=10531208

  • Pro-life is cool

    http://equipbiz.co.nz/files/prolife/pro-life-cool.jpg

  • Re: Pro Choice Propaganda

    THANK YOU KEN ORR & RIGHT TO LIFE ( and Andy)

    http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JTow-oumY

    Also see: Abortion – High Court decision

    http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=z1k8u5zDTWw

    The Case brought by Right to Life against the Abortion Supervisory Committee has highlighted that:

    (1) New Zealand effectively has abortion on demand – almost 99% of women who apply to have an abortion are granted the right to proceed because certifying consultants have been willing to accept, based largely on good faith in the claims of women – that the continuance of their pregnancy will or might result in an impairment or deterioration of their ‘mental health’ (anxiety, stress, etc).

    (2) There are serious and substantial grounds to doubt the lawfulness of many of the approximately 18,000 abortions carried out each year in New Zealand, because the grounds for many of the terminations involved a very liberal interpretation of the provisions of the law for termination, which when correctly applied – only allow for authorisation of an abortion (termination) when the certifying consultants are convinced, based on real evidence, that by not terminating the pregnancy the mother will face a real threat of serious danger to to her health or life.

    (3) The Abortion Supervisory Committee has failed in its statutory duty to protect the rights of unborn children by aiding and abetting the termination of thousands of unborn children under their watch. They must be held to account.

    The gross negligence of this Committee has been highlighted in that they have allowed thousands of abortions to proceed under their watch, when there were clearly NOT good reasons – in keeping with the law (serious danger to the life or health of the mother) – for the termination of the unborn child to proceed.

    These statutory and moral failures will be addressed by Right to Life in continuing Court action in its seeking of a writ of mandamus from the High Court directing the Committee to comply with the strictures of the law and spelling out more clearly its statutory duties in relation to the activities of certifying consultants.

    In his judgment Justice Forrest Millar stated:

    “There is reason to doubt the lawfulness of many abortions authorised by certifying consultants. Indeed, the committee itself has stated that the law is being used more liberally than Parliament intended”.