Right to Life wrote to all MPs outlining the major problems in the Family Planning Association’s application to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for a license to commit abortions, below is an excerpt,

Right to Life knows that the Family Planning Association is strongly pro-abortion and unsuitable to be granted a licence to terminate the lives of unborn children.

• The Association is the major abortion referral agency in New Zealand and believes that abortion is needed as a back up for so called failed contraceptives.
• It supports girls under the age of 16 being able to have an abortion without the knowledge or consent of parents.
• It has an employment policy to employ only doctors who believe that abortion is for a woman to choose in consultation with a doctor of her choice, this is abortion on demand which is unlawful in New Zealand.

In the event of the Association being granted a licence to perform abortions, our Society would have serious concerns about the lawfulness of these abortions. You would be aware that Justice Miller in the High Court Judicial Review of the performance of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, stated in his judgment in June 2008, that abortion on demand was unlawful and that “there is reason to doubt the lawfulness of many abortions authorised by certifying consultants.”

• Many doctors employed by Family Planning are certifying consultants.
• The Association is an ardent advocate for the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand.
• The Association believes that unborn children are not endowed with inalienable human rights, that the killing of an unborn child is not a crime and that abortion should be a health matter for a woman to choose.
• The Association is a vocal advocate of a “woman’s right to choose to terminate the life of her child” there is no such right.

Mifegyne RU486, used in New Zealand for medical abortions is a poisonous pill, its sole purpose is to kill an innocent and defenceless unborn child in its first seven weeks of life.

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