A Culture of Life

Increasing incidence of STIs as long acting contraceptive use escalates

With the increased use of Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) among New Zealand teenage girls and women, there has been a decline in prescriptions for Emergency Contraception (otherwise known as the Morning After Pill) and an increase in the incidence…

Decriminalising abortion will abandon women in their greatest hour of need

Recently the calls for decriminalising abortion have begun to get a little louder, however the reforming of New Zealand's abortion law is nothing new. For quite some time now there have been rumblings from pro-abortion organisations to make abortion more easily…

Abby Johnson: If Gosnell deserves death and hell, tell me, what do I deserve?

The following is by Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director who, through the Grace of God, left her job, found peace and forgiveness in Christ and has vowed to work to promote life and to protect the unborn.…

The morality of using emergency contraception in the case of rape

Recently there has been a great deal of controversy around the morning after pill otherwise known as “emergency contraception”.  Several studies have seemed to show that the pharmaceutical works only in a contraceptive manner (meaning conception is prevented) rather than in an…

Never say never, and other thoughts on having more kids

The following is Jennifer Fulwiler's honest take on being open to another child when the doctors are saying that the risk of another pregnancy is too high. Ever faithful to Catholic teaching on marriage and family, this post is well…

Family First’s traditional family views deemed ‘controversial’

Family First is to be removed from the Charities Register weeks after the passing of the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill because it has been deemed by the Charities Registration Board that their main purpose is political. The Board…

Alison McCulloch of the Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ finds personhood at conception scary

Recently, Alison McCulloch of the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRANZ) gave an interview on radio's National Programme. In it, she explains her position on abortion and how she would like to see the New Zealand laws around abortion access reformed.…

New Zealand Family Planning Association now in the business of providing abortions

The NZ Family Planning Association has applied for and received a license from the Abortion Supervisory Committee to provide early medical abortions at its Tauranga clinic. The only information was a short reference to the application and granting of the license…

Group seeking support for legal recognition of polyamorous ‘marriage’ in New Zealand

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (LifeSiteNews.com) - Just one week after the passage of gay ‘marriage’ legislation in New Zealand, it has been revealed that a group has been formed whose goal is to have group marriages recognised in law. The group,…

Open Letter to our Fellow Citizens from Pro-Life Leaders of America

April, 2013 The undersigned pro-life leaders want to emphasize the historic significance of the current murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell and call upon all men and women of conscience to take note. Police investigators accurately described his Philadelphia abortion…