Voice for Life – NZ Catholic Newspaper

What is really at stake in the abortion debate

Michael Otto — Fri, 05 May 2017 01:39:26 +0000

There has been much clamour recently over the call from the Abortion Supervisory Committee to review the law about abortions in New Zealand. Activists have been forthright in demands to remove abortion from the Crimes Act and to make abortion merely a medical matter between a woman and a doctor. Political parties have variously reacted

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Pro-life ad stirs hornet’s nest

Michael Otto — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 22:14:01 +0000

A pro-life advertisement in a Wellington magazine sparked a furious reaction on social media, but Voice for Life says its ad also received much positive feedback. The full page ad, which ran in Capital magazine, spelt out the demographic and social consequences of preventing 500,000 Kiwis being born. The ad noted the milestone of 500,000 abortions looming for New Zealand since the first abortion clinic opened in 1974. Voice

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NZ abortion figures reach 500,000 mark

Rowena Orejana — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:27:32 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA
The number of babies aborted since the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act was implemented in 1974 reached half a million in the first quarter of the year — equivalent to the population of 14 New Zealand cities. echo $variable;

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Complaints cut little ice

NZ Catholic Staff — Thu, 07 May 2015 01:19:30 +0000

by NZ CATHOLIC staff

Voice for Life and Right to Life has formally asked the Ombudsman to investigate and seek evidence that people going to abortions clinics are being verbally abused and harassed.
In its 2014 annual report, the Abortion Supervisory Committee again complained of “harassment”, such as verbal abuse and offensive material given to people entering clinics and hospitals.
At four places, vigils are held outside hospitals on the day abortions are performed — Thames, Hastings, Dunedin and Invercargill.the committee for evidence but were declined on privacy grounds.
The organisations asked the committee for evidence but were declined on privacy grounds. The organisations said they then asked the Ombudsman to investigate and seek evidence.
“It turned out that the ‘harassment’ was verbally reported by clinic staff, sothere was no documented evidence. The presence of a peaceful prayer group was deemed to be harassment,”
they stated.
All prayer groups denied engaging in verbal abuse, saying it was often the other way, from pro-abortion activists.
In Hastings, the vigil consists of three people.
That group said 29 women on their way to have abortions had stopped to talk and, as a result, kept their babies.

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Pro-life group hit by cyber attack

Rowena Orejana — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:31:09 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA AUCKLAND — Family Life International New Zealand’s Facebook pages have been attacked, forcing the organisation to pull them down to get rid of the filth. FLI communications director Michelle Kaufman, who is in charge of the group’s website and Facebook pages, said the attack happened fast. “One of the interesting things about

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Pro-life internship trains 16 young people

Michael Otto — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 05:26:21 +0000

by CHRISTINE GOUNDER PARAPARAUMU — Voice for Life has run another successful Stayin’ Alive Pro-Life Internship programme at Kapiti in Wellington. Sixteen interns, the maximum number the programme can take, gathered for six days to discuss pro-life issues. Organiser Brendan Malone said more than 20 people applied for a place in this year’s internship, but

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Late fatherhood a key in Wanganui man’s work

Sue Seconi — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:52:55 +0000

by SUE SECONI WANGANUI — “Surprised and unexpected, but absolutely delighted to receive this acknowledgement,” was the immediate response from Wanganui’s Ted Downs after he was awarded Life Membership of Voice for Life at the annual general meeting on April 26. For 30 years, Mr Downs has been an active member of the Voice for

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Voice for Life song contest to be in Auckland

NZ Catholic Staff — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:14:10 +0000

by NZ CATHOLIC staff AUCKLAND — The fifth Voice for Life National Pro-Life Songwriting Contest will be held in Auckland in November, organiser Don Brebner has announced. Mr Brebner said that after the first contest, in Tauranga in 2008, Christian groups and organisations such as Right to Life, Family First and Pro-Life NZ offered to

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Mixed reaction to drop in number of abortions in NZ

NZ Catholic Staff — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:35:54 +0000

by NZ CATHOLIC staff WELLINGTON — Pro-life organisations have welcomed a drop in the annual number of abortions in New Zealand, but they have expressed sorrow at the thousands of children who were nonetheless terminated. According to Statistics New Zealand data, there were 16,630 abortions performed in 2010, the lowest annual total since 2001 (16,410).

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