She is 16 and at a friend’s party when she meets the boy. He says he loves her and there is no risk, guaranteed one hundred per cent. But he is wrong. When she tells him she’s pregnant, he panics. He says it’s not his. Everyone knows she sleeps around. She must get rid of Read more
Fiorella Nash is a novelist as well as an advocate for pro-life causes. Her novels, written under the name Fiorella De Maria, include Poor Banished Children, Do No Harm, and her latest, We’ll Never Tell Them. She was interviewed for Catholic World Report by email: CWR: In addition to being a novelist, you are also quite active Read more
In November 2013, the campaign group Abortion Rights announced their first-ever student conference. It was, they explained, in response to ‘many student unions reporting increased anti-choice activity on campuses’. Societies such as Oxford Students for Life, which I’ve been part of for the last couple of years, don’t tend to think of themselves as ‘anti-choice’, Read more
I’m a solo, surrogate parent to a now 9 month old baby girl, 30 hours a week. Her parents have both returned back to the workforce, so I’ve been hired to go into the family home, and look after Molly four days a week. She’s cute, it has to be said. Like, super cute. Especially Read more
In the wake of the Roe v. Wade ruling of the Supreme Court in 1973, it became clear to those in pro-life work that some sort of ministry was required to help women suffering from the far-reaching ramifications of legalized abortion. Thirty years ago this week, Vicki Thorn launched Project Rachel to meet that need. Read more
A website aimed at sharing information about doctors and other medical professionals who oppose contraception and abortion for moral or religious reasons was launched last week. It is is called My Decision/Kei a au te Whakataunga (www.mydecision.org.nz). It is owned by the Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ. Last year ALRANZ condemned a group of Southland Read more
The Green Party supports the decriminalisation of abortion. Having an abortion in New Zealand is still a crime under the Crimes Act, unless a pregnant woman faces a danger to her life, physical or mental health. The Greens wants to make abortion freely available to women up to 20 weeks pregnant. Read Green Party Press Read more
Family First International New Zealand leader Dame Colleen Bayer is has signed a declaration calling on the bishops of the Catholic Church to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians. She is one of fifty two pro-life leaders from sixteen nations attending the first annual Rome Life Forum in Vatican City. They have all signed the declaration in Read more
Members of Wellington High School’s feminist club have staged a reciprocal protest against a Catholic pro-life group demonstrating near the main entrance of Wellington Hospital. Family Life International is holding a 40 day anti-abortion prayer vigil outside the Wellington Hospital. As part of it’s 40 days for life campaign, Family life international the vigil is Read more
Family Life International New Zealand’s new John Paul II Centre for Life in Dunedin was officially opened on Sunday the 10th of November by Bishop Colin Campbell who is the Centre’s Patron. Before the blessing ritual, Bishop Campbell expressed his enthusiasm for the Centre, and for pro-life work in general. He reminded the crowd of the Read more