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You’ve probably heard of China’s Infamous One Child Policy But did you know that as a result of this policy, there were up to 130,000 forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations of women in Linyi City in Shandong Province in one year alone? (2005) Every day, Chinese women who become pregnant are forced to have abortions if they …

The law guarantees your right to refuse to participate in abortion. Section 46 – your legal right to object Parliament enshrined the right to conscientious objection in the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act, 1977. This lawful protection is clearly spelt out in Section 46 of the Act. Recently, the Abortion Supervisory Committee reminded licensed hospitals …

Record entries in the 4th Voice for Life National Pro-Life Song-writing Contest saw sisters Rachel (Auckland) and Maria (Kaitaia) Schryvers take out first place in the “Open” and “College/Tertiary” categories respectively. Coming from a family where each of nine siblings learned various musical instruments the wins are the first for them in a national competition. …

Kapiti Voice for Life adopted the Bodhi Vincent sculpture, the centrepiece on an installation that includes artwork by dozens of school children, as a symbol for its campaign against abortion. President Brian Whitaker said the group plans to gather annually at Kapiti Police Station after staging a publicity event coinciding with White Ribbon week. Mr …

“Waikato Hospital has stopped providing its own abortion service and a contractor has been hired, partly because of objections by some staff. The Waikato District Health Board has contracted a long-established abortion clinic, the Auckland Medical Aid Centre, to provide surgical abortions at three Waikato hospitals.” Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10769527

The ‘right to die’ could become a ‘duty’ to die, writes John Kleinsman The case against Sean Davison has provoked debate about whether euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide should be legalised. Few would argue that Mr Davison was not motivated by a sense of love and duty for his mother in doing what he did – …

Stayin’ Alive is a pro-life workshop organised by Voice for Life, Kapiti. The purpose of this workshop is to ‘network, educate, activate’ the next generation of pro-lifers for the pro-life movement. Last year’s inaugural workshop was a great success, and featured respected and well-informed pro-life speakers, including Brendan Malone, Bob McCoskrie and Gordon Copeland. Almost …

The 2011 Voice for Life National Conference runs from 7:30 p.m. on Friday 4th November to 12:30 p.m. on Sunday 6th November in Wellington. This is a particularly important Conference because, in 2012, it is anticipated that a coalition of pro-abortion activists will push for the decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand. For the past …

Reflection and Healing Day Friday 28 October 2011 You are invited to come and hear – Marina Young (Buttons project) share her story “What happened matters.” “Through my own abortion experience I have come to realise that many women feel the same – that it can be difficult to gain any sense of closure.” www.buttonsproject.org …

Eugenicist & Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger (LifeSiteNews.com) – One of the United States’ leading pro-life organizations, the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA), is calling on Planned Parenthood to repudiate their founder by cancelling its annual “Margaret Sanger Award.” [EXPAND expand/collapse] The organization has been issuing the award since 1966. Past recipients have included Martin …