5 November 2009
Media Release

Family Planning – Choice for the Killing of Unborn Children

The Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand, 2nd November, continues its propaganda in support of the Family Planning Association’s [NZFPA] application to kill unborn children at its Hamilton clinic.

It is always wrong to kill the innocent. ALRANZ promotes a culture of death under the guise of offering women “a service.” This is an insidious falsehood; it is no service to offer vulnerable women faced with an unplanned pregnancy an offer to kill their baby.

Women faced with an unplanned pregnancy are naturally ambivalent in the first trimester of their pregnancy. It is expected that Family Planning will encourage women to make a quick decision to terminate the life of their child and to promptly take the lethal drug Mifegyn RU486. This will leave many women with the trauma of a lifetime of regret, sorrow and mental ill health.

The philosophy of Family Planning is alien to a culture of life. At the Association’s Conference in May, 1979 the following policy was adopted;

“That the 19 doctors meeting as the Medical Advisory Committee of the NZPA recognise that the provision of abortion services is an important back-up measure in a comprehensive family planning programme.”

This policy is in contravention of the abortion laws of New Zealand. The law does not provide that an unborn child may be killed because of the failure of contraception. This is clear evidence that the Association is unfitted to hold a licence to perform abortions.

The Association is a loyal member of the International Planned Parenthood Association [IPPF] and established in 180 countries. Dr Gill Greer of the NZFPA is currently the Director General of IPPF. The Association vigorously promotes abortion worldwide as a human right. Planned Parenthood of America is the biggest provider of abortions in the United States, in the year 2007 they performed 306,000 abortions. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood stated; “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill It.” and “Our objective is unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children.”Sanger also supported Malthusian eugenics with the weeding out of the weak in society.

Planned Parenthood of America conducts a lucrative abortion business. On 6th October 2009, Aby Johnson, the manager of the Bryan, Texas Planned Parenthood abortion clinic resigned after seeing an abortion on ultrasound. She had experienced a spiritual conversion and realised fully that an abortion is the killing of an innocent and defenceless child. She stated that she had previously been told by senior management that she try to bring more abortions through the door. “The money was not in family planning, the money was not in prevention, the money was in abortion.” It is reasonable to assume that this is also the philosophy of Family Planning. It is abhorrent that Family Planning could make a profit from the killing of unborn children. Right to Life, in the defence of our unborn children and their mothers, is opposed to the Association being granted a licence to kill unborn children at its Hamilton clinic or any other of its other 29 clinics.

ENDS