Royal College Betrays Mothers and Abandons Unborn Children

Right to Life New Zealand is disappointed that the Australian and New Zealand Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are at the forefront in seeking to have the killing of unborn children decriminalised in Queensland. The College is promoting a culture of death. Citizens in other States and in New Zealand, committed to upholding a culture of life and protection for the right to life of unborn children should be alert to the threat that the Royal College represents. The Royal College has been lobbying the Queensland State government to repeal sections 225 and 226 of the Criminal Code. Dr Ted, Weaver, President of the Royal College has stated that his College wants abortion decriminalised. This strident support for the decriminalisation of abortion follows the College’s successful vigorous lobbying last year to have the Victorian Labour government pass the infamous Abortion Law Reform Bill that decriminalised abortion in Victoria.

If the Royal College were successful in Queensland, it would no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child. Abortion would become solely a health issue. A woman would be permitted to seek an abortion for any reason if a doctor agreed. There are an estimated 14,000 abortions each year in Queensland; it is acknowledged that there is abortion on demand with the majority of the termination of lives being on normal healthy babies for social reasons masquerading as psychiatric.

Decriminalisation raises serious human rights issues. Unborn children are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family. The State has a duty and an interest in providing effective legal protection for the human rights of unborn children who are future citizens. Members of the Royal College have a special duty and privilege to be the protectors of mothers and their unborn. It is not in God’s plan that doctors should decide who will live and who shall be killed. Unborn children are a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation. It is indeed sad that the College could betray this trust, deny the inalienable right to life of their tiny and helpless patient and deny the distressed mother the care and compassion that she needs to bring her child to birth.

In 1948 in response to the atrocities committed by doctors in Nazi Germany, who said in defence, “we were only following orders,” the World Medical Association, meeting in Geneva passed the following Declaration; “I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the moment of conception, even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.”

Right to Life New Zealand calls upon the College to uphold this Declaration and its noble traditions of protecting mothers and their infants in the womb by withdrawing its support for the decriminalisation of abortion..

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