Increasingly maternal medical professionals in New Zealand are able to detect a number of foetal anomalies prior to birth. With the increased screening of conditions such as Down syndrome, Spina Bifida, heart defects, anencephaly and other anomalies, Family Life International…
Read More Supporting Families after an Adverse Antenatal Diagnosis
Life itself is a basic human right that is deserving of all humanity. But sadly in our country eugenics is denying that right to a group of individuals based on their genetic difference. Mr Mike Sullivan, spokesperson for Saving Downs…
Read More Eugenics in New Zealand to be Discussed at Seminar
It has been an interesting week as the media has been abuzz with the news that the International Criminial Court will undertake a preliminary investigation into New Zealand's ante-natal screening programme. We should not be surprised that many doctors and midwives…
It is always encouraging to hear stories of modern people who have managed to live their faith courageously. This week I read of one such woman - a mother who had followed in the steps of St Gianna Molla -…
It has become extremely difficult for married couples, husbands and wives, to adopt a child in New Zealand. Those approaching adoption services to seek information on how they can become adoptive parents in this country are actually steered towards “lifetime…
Read More Proposed Adoption Legislation Discriminates Against Traditional Families
I came across an article "Incompatible With Life,” A Death Sentence for Unborn Children" written by Cora Sherlock today. The article discusses the arguement that women who receive an adverse pre-natal diagnosis for their unborn child should be given the opportunity…
Read More Supporting Families after an Adverse Pre-Natal Diagnosis
There has been a great shift in society's perception of single parenthood over the last few decades. Where once it was unacceptable for single girl or woman to be pregnant (to the point where she was shipped off to another town…
As we begin the Lenten journey, it would do us well to stop for a moment and think about not only the state of our own soul, but that of our nation. For it is the laws of our land which allow…
Blessed John Paul II wrote in his exhortation Familiaris Consortio "the future of humanity passes by way of the family." Why would that be so? Because it is within the family that children learn to be responsible, caring people who…
