Right to Life New Zealand

18 September 2007

District Health Board – Elections

We all have a duty to defend life, promote a culture of life and oppose a culture of death. Citizens voting in this year’s election of members to their District Health Boards [DHBs] have a serious moral obligation to vote only for candidates who are publicly committed to upholding the sanctity of life ethic and are opposed to the killing of unborn children.

Statistics New Zealand has advised that 17930 unborn children were killed in New Zealand in 2006. The great majority of these abortions were performed in Public Hospitals under the control of DHBs. The Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act, provides for DHBs to apply to the Abortion Supervisory Committee if they wish to have an annual licence to perform abortions. There is no legal duty for a DHB to hold a licence and they may, if they wish, choose not to perform abortions. There are several DHBs that have chosen not to seek a licence to perform abortions.

Hospitals should be places that uphold the sanctity of life ethic.

Respect for the inalienable right to life of every patient should be the guiding ethic that governs the practice of medicine. Unborn children are also patients. They are the weakest and most vulnerable members of the human family and deserve special legal protection of their human rights.

It is appalling that the government sanctions and funds the killing of innocent and defenceless children in their mother’s wombs. We can be unwitting accomplices to this killing if we vote for persons to our DHB who are committed
Right to Life has written to all candidates seeking election to the following DHBs; Auckland, Waikato, Capital Coast, Canterbury and Otago. The great majority of abortions are performed at hospitals controlled by these DHBs. A questionnaire was also sent concerning the sanctity of life ethic and abortion. The results of this important survey will be displayed on our Society’s web site: www.right-to-life.org

On behalf of our unborn children and their mothers, please vote only for candidates who are prepared to uphold the sanctity of life ethic and who are opposed to the killing of our unborn children.

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