The Northland Age

War against children

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The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is commended for condemning chemical warfare. Recently she stated, “New Zealand condemns any use of chemical weapons, whether it is in Syria or on the streets of the UK. New Zealand believes all states must adhere to obligation­s under internatio­nal law, including in respect of chemical weapons.”

It is inconsiste­nt for the Prime Minister to denounce this crime against humanity while at the same time giving approval for the use of weapons of mass destructio­n in chemical warfare in New Zealand in a bloody civil war against our own children.

The Abortion Supervisor­y Committee reported to Parliament in 2017 that 1970 preborn children were killed, 472 of whom were aged nine weeks or more, in their mothers’ wombs with the lethal chemical Mifegyne RU486. This chemical was approved for the killing of children by the Minister of Health, Annette King, in August 2001.

In her media release on August 30, 2001, the minister stated that, “Mifegyne RU486 meets the internatio­nal standards of safety and effectiven­ess required for medicines”.

Mifegyne RU486 is not a medicine, and pregnancy is not a disease. The lethal drug is not safe for the unborn child, nor is it safe for women. It is, however, as the minister claims, highly effective in killing the unborn. Since the introducti­on of this new chemical warfare against the unborn there have been nearly 18,000 unborn killed in New Zealand by this drug.

This chemical war is also violence against women, who are the second victims of this war. This is a crime against humanity.

Mifegyne acts by depriving the endometriu­m of a hormone which the human embryo requires to flourish. The embryo then dies of starvation. This highly effective chemical warfare is approved and funded as a core health service by the government, and is used in a number of public hospitals.

The Family Planning Associatio­n is an ardent supporter of chemical warfare with Mifegyne, and in April 2013 commenced killing unborn children at its Tauranga clinic. The associatio­n supports the decriminal­isation of abortion, removing abortion from the Crimes Act and making it no longer a crime to kill an unborn child. The associatio­n supports abortion being a reproducti­ve choice for women for any reason, with this lethal poison being available at all of its other 29 clinics.

Chemical warfare has been raging against our own children in the womb for more than 50 years. It is hypocritic­al for our Government to condemn crimes against humanity in other countries while actively waging a war against our own children, which is approved and funded by the government. This is a crime against humanity.

Right to Life asks, when is the Government going to stop this insane civil war against our own children? There will be no peace in New Zealand until this devastatin­g war against our nation’s children in the womb is stopped.

" It is hypocritic­al for our government to condemn crimes against humanity in other countries while actively waging a war against our own children . . . "

Ken Orr, Right to Life

KEN ORR Spokesman Right to Life

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