ON ELECTIONEERING WITH HOLY ANGELS, EVIL MEN - AND WOMEN

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Justice Minister the 'Honorable' Andrew Little is, in the opinion of pro-life voters and on his own say-so, a liar.

"The pecs and the biceps are way too big" - Little comments on a gay portrait of himself

"There is "no such thing as full-term abortion," Little says. "People who say that are idiots." But he is proven a liar both by the Abortion Legislation Act itself and by his own earlier admission, in an unguarded moment, that abortions up to birth "could" happen under the new law.

The evil Abortion Legislation Act was always Prime Minister Ardern’s ‘baby’, but it was midwife Andrew Little who brought it to birth, by Caesarean section, at a predetermined moment when following Ardern's prolonged labour of scaring people literally witless with the  COVID-19 bogy, the electorate wouldn’t notice. And they didn't.

If we can go by the preferred Prime Minister polls, it seems some 60% of the electorate, even Catholics who know they can't in conscience vote for a socialist party like Labour, don't even care much.

"Oh no, I don't like that," one told me yesterday (I'd mentioned Ardern's heinous law in response to her comment that the PM was doing a good job on COVID-19). So she doesn't 'like' that law - but she and her husband, who work in the voluntary health sector, also say we mustn't put a price on human life. Doesn't matter apparently what Ardern's lockdown will cost in terms of business failures, collapse of the economy, even in terms of suicide, because all lives matter.

A life-long Labour voter, another 'good Catholic' and married to a Maori, agreed with the first. "That's aroha," she said.

Oh really. How is it 'aroha' to value the nearly-spent and compromised lives of the aged and frail, who will succumb to the Grim Reaper soon anyway, over the newly-minted, utterly innocent lives of a baby in the womb? If these people vote Labour, in effect that's what they'll be doing. And where was Labour's 'aroha' for those same aged and frail citizens when twice as many Labour MPs as National MPs voted for a referendum on euthanasia? (And note that Jami-Lee Ross, now co-leader with Billy Te Kahika of the Advance NZ Party, voted for both the abortion act and the euthanasia referendum.)

Oh, silly me, I get it now: it's 'kindness' and 'aroha' to put the aged and infirm at the mercy of greedy rellies and their own consciousness of being a burden on society.

Ardern posing for Vogue

The PM is eager to point to her government’s achievements and aspirations for the LGBT community.  “Whether it’s the work we are doing now on adoption and surrogacy, or the new space we need to move into now, which is not just the equality of rights, but the equality of wellbeing. Know us by our deeds.”

Oh, we know you, all right: "Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light" (2 Cor 11:14)

Little and Ardern voted against giving medical attention or even pain relief to babies born after botched abortions. They voted against parents being notified of their daughter's pregnancy. They voted in favour of killing babies because of their sex, or because they're not as perfectly made as Little and Ardern would like. They voted for those abortions to be performed by a variety of 'health practitioners' - like, technically speaking, chiropractors or podiatrists.

National list party MP Agnes Loheni, who was on the select committee for the abortion legislation, said the legislation “definitely” supports abortion up to birth.

“What is written in our legislation definitely supports that you could have an abortion post 20 weeks up to birth. If you look at the words yourself – there are no hoops to jump through because it is so broad and ill-defined. In my view the unborn child now is the equivalent of having an appendix removed,” she said.

She added that many MP’s who were for the bill changed their vote on the third reading because they felt uncomfortable with the “loose terms around the criteria for late term abortions”.

Remember the shambles made of the previous law by comparatively highly-qualified ‘medical consultants‘ and the Abortion Supervisory Committee, and the High Court’s ruling that we already had de facto abortion on demand?

For Little and Ardern, that murder and mayhem wasn't enough. Polls had made it clear that Kiwis, specially women, did not want abortion up to birth, and opposition to the Bill was hardening but Ardern and Little were planning on locking the nation down so they hustled it through the final Select Committee Hearing and the Third Reading in one day.

And it passed into law on the Vigil of the Incarnation in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Son of God.

Madonna with Child

Orazio Gentileschi

Ardern and Little have covered our beautiful country, once known as Godzone, in shame. Labour's law is  the worst law in the world. Worse, that is, even than Victoria Australia's. And now that Right To Life UK have undertaken an extensive analysis of published abortion data on late-term abortions in Victoria, we can foresee its horrific effects.

The Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality data shows that since Victoria's law changed in 2008, 1,418 late-term abortions (between 20-weeks’ gestation and birth) have been performed, allowed by doctors for ‘psychosocial’ reasons; these were terminations where the baby did not have a disability and the abortion was performed on social grounds. In 2011, one of these abortions on social grounds occurred at 37 weeks.

Another side effect of the very high late-term abortion rate in Australia is that scores of babies have been left to die after being born alive during a number of ‘botched’ terminations.

The Victorian Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity reported that in 2012 there were 53 ‘terminations of pregnancy’ after 20 weeks ‘resulting in live birth’. 

The new abortion law in New Zealand is even more extreme than the law in Victoria, Australia – making it the most extreme abortion law in the world. 

It allows abortions between 20-weeks’ gestation and birth with the go-ahead from just two health practitioners (this could include nurses and midwives and given the definition of 'health practitioners' there's no reason why they couldn't be chiros or podiatrists) rather than the higher threshold of two doctors that are required in Victoria. 

While the legislation in New Zealand was progressing through parliament, the Abortion Legislation Committee widened the already loose criteria to include “overall well-being” – making it even easier for abortions to happen between 20 weeks and birth in New Zealand. 

Yesterday Labour posted a new social media video crowing about the key pieces of legislation they passed while in office.

No mention of the Abortion Legislation Act which many of their now-retired women MPs would have regarded as the pinnacle of their Parliamentary career. Funny that. I guess Labour are hoping we'll all just forget?

But we won't. We can't. St Michael, summon all guardian angels to propel us to the polls on September 19 to vote to defeat Labour, and to defeat every single MP who voted for the Abortion Legislation Act, and every single candidate who would have done so.

And may our holy angels remind us that New Conservatives is the only party promising to repeal that Act.