Right to Life New Zealand
Encyclopedia
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
-based pro-life
Pro-life
Opposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...
group. It was expelled from the New Zealand Society for Protection of the Unborn Child (now Voice for Life
Voice for Life
Voice for Life is New Zealand's oldest and largest pro-life group with branches nationwide. Voice for Life's role is to educate about the humanity of the preborn child, the effects of abortion on women and advocate for social change so that abortion is seen as unthinkable medical homicide...
) in December 1999.
For six years (2005-2011), Right to Life New Zealand conducted a court case against the Abortion Supervisory Committee, New Zealand's abortion regulator, arguing that the Committee had failed in its alleged statutory responsibility to monitor the legality of individual certifying consultant responsibilities under the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act 1977. However, the Court of Appeal found against Right to Life on 1 June 2011. It dismissed their case against the Committee and upheld Wall v Livingston [1982], an earlier Court of Appeal case that found that there was no statutory definition of embryo or fetus under New Zealand law in the context of abortion . While Right to Life does intend to appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court, such requests are not automatically granted
External links
- Right to Life New Zealand
- Voice for Life (formerly New Zealand Society for Protection of the Unborn Child)
- Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (pro-choice)