"The Christian Heritage Party is making offensive comments about Nazism and reproductive choice in the context of so-called "wrongful life" cases."

"ALRANZ would like to make it clear that we support choice in this particular context. We believe that if a woman and her partner decide that they want to continue the pregnancy, then any intellectually, physically or compound disabled child should receive anti-discrimination law protection, advocacy services and community care. However, this must be distinguished from terminations of pregnancy in the context of severe life-threatening medical conditions"

"If an embryo or foetus cannot survive, then abortion may be preferable to a short-term existence in agonising pain. As someone with deceased intellectually and physically disabled cousins, I find Capill's comments grossly offensive." said Craig Young, Research Officer for the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand today.

Contact: Craig Young (06) 3569099 ext 7750

ALRANZ Box 28008 Wellington

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>