5 August 2010

Media Release
 

Green Party Morally Inconsistent

It is disappointing that the Green Party has a profound difficulty in understanding and accepting the inalienable right to life of every human being from conception. The Party commendably upholds the right to life of dairy calves but not that of innocent and defenceless unborn children. Are dairy calves more valuable and important than our own unborn children? At the moment of conception every human being is conferred by the Creator with a right to life, this right is inalienable and universal. Dairy calves also have a right to life but not comparable to a human beings right to life, they deserve respect as party of God’s creation.

The Green Party Animal Welfare spokesperson, Sue Kedgley, on the 2nd August in a media release stated, that the Minister of Agriculture should ban “this inhumane and cruel practice” in the dairy industry of inducing cows to give birth to premature calves. Why is it that the Green Party strongly opposes a drug used to abort dairy calves and yet approves of the  abortion murder pill, RU 486 used in the inhumane and cruel practice of killing unborn babies by starvation in the first nine weeks of life?

“Under the Vet Code vets have a specific duty to protect animals and alleviate their suffering. Vets are deliberately inflicting suffering”.  It is estimated that 200,000 cows are induced each year. Why is it that the Green Party criticises vets for aborting dairy calves but remains silent when doctors prostitute their profession, ignoring the Hippocratic tradition to have the greatest respect for unborn children and kill unborn children in their thousands every year?

The Green Party has a radical policy supporting the killing of unborn children. It states, “Women’s right to control their bodies is non- negotiable”. This policy ignores the truth that while women have a right to control the own body, they do not have a right to kill their child which is a unique and separate individual with its own DNA and blood group. 

The Green Party has many excellent policies to protect the environment. The Party should be aware that the first duty of the state is to provide effective legal protection for the right to life of every citizen from conception to natural death. The state does not exist to preside over the destruction of human life. The Party should recognise that the unborn child is the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family. It is a great tragedy that the Green Party has not exercised its eloquent advocacy on behalf of our unborn children. In defence of the nearly 370, 000 unborn children killed before birth since 1977, there has been a deathly silence. In the event that the Party continues to ignore its responsibility to protect human life, rejects the rights of unborn children and ignores their desperate plight it forfeits its right to be represented in Parliament.

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