Family Planning Association - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 02 Jul 2015 09:11:49 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Family Planning Association - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pacific parliamentarians discuss men's reproductive health https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/07/03/pacific-parliamentarians-discuss-mens-reproductive-health/ Thu, 02 Jul 2015 19:04:22 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=73585

Parliamentarians from five Pacific nations met in Wellington on 29 June to consider how better to involve boys and men in sexual and reproductive health in the Pacific. Presenters at the hearing included the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Tonga Family Health Association, the Kiribati Health Association, and a male Read more

Pacific parliamentarians discuss men's reproductive health... Read more]]> Parliamentarians from five Pacific nations met in Wellington on 29 June to consider how better to involve boys and men in sexual and reproductive health in the Pacific.

Presenters at the hearing included the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Tonga Family Health Association, the Kiribati Health Association, and a male youth representative from Kiribati.

The secretariat for the assembly was the New Zealand Family Planning Association, [FPA].

Twenty-three-year-old David Kakiakia from Kiribati has been trained by Family Planning New Zealand to advocate for sexual reproductive health or SRH education.

In the open forum he said religious beliefs were stopping parents from sharing vital sexual health information to their sons.

He told Daniela Maoate-Cox of Radio New Zealand that talking about sex conflicts with parents' religious views.

Right to Life says it is disappointed that the New Zealand government is funding a culture of death by funding the UNFPA and IPPF.

It says these organisations are at the forefront of the war on women and the international anti-life agenda to promote contraception, sterilisation and abortion.

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Pacific parliamentarians discuss men's reproductive health]]> 73585 School sexuality education guidelines start at Year 1 https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/11/08/school-sexuality-education-guidelines-start-year-1/ Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:05:28 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=51847 Teachers of students as young as 5 will soon have access to new sexuality education guidelines addressing issues such as identity and relationships. The guidelines commissioned by Family Planning are designed to help teachers of students in Years 1 to 4, and will cover body parts and differences between boys and girls - but not Read more

School sexuality education guidelines start at Year 1... Read more]]> Teachers of students as young as 5 will soon have access to new sexuality education guidelines addressing issues such as identity and relationships.

The guidelines commissioned by Family Planning are designed to help teachers of students in Years 1 to 4, and will cover body parts and differences between boys and girls - but not sex.

Co-author and Canterbury University education lecturer Tracy Clelland said the guidelines focused on identity, self-worth, friendships, relationships, being confident in yourself and expressing emotions. Continue reading

School sexuality education guidelines start at Year 1]]> 51847 Is Family Planning NZ going to set up abortion clinics? https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/11/05/family-planning-nz-going-set-abortion-clinics/ Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:30:22 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=51682

Family life International is concerned that, having been successful in gaining a license to perform abortions at their Tauranga clinic, the New Zealand Family Planning Association (NZFPA) may be moving towards a similar model followed by Planned Parenthood in the United States (PPFA). The New Zealand Association says it has "a proud affiliation with the Read more

Is Family Planning NZ going to set up abortion clinics?... Read more]]> Family life International is concerned that, having been successful in gaining a license to perform abortions at their Tauranga clinic, the New Zealand Family Planning Association (NZFPA) may be moving towards a similar model followed by Planned Parenthood in the United States (PPFA).

The New Zealand Association says it has "a proud affiliation with the International Planned Parenthood Federation".

After discovering that Cecile Richards, President of PPFA, would be keynoting at the an NZFPA Conference in Wellington, Family Life International organised a peaceful vigil outside the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, where the conference was being held.

Family life's Communication Director, Michelle Kaufman, said PPFA has come under fire in the United States after numerous scandals and in the past year has closed over 24 of its clinics.

Kaufman said that during Richards' term as president of the PPFA, over 300,000 abortions are being performed in Planned Parenthood clinics every year.

The vigil which began on Thursday and concluded on Saturday took place for three hours each day from 10:00am until 1:00pm.

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