Monthly Archives: June 2008

Anti-abortion campaigner goes to police over YouTube video

By SPCS | Published: June 30, 2008

Christchurch anti-abortion campaigner Ken Orr has laid a complaint with police after a video was posted on YouTube showing a gun being pointed at his head.

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Society applies a second time for Interim Restriction Order against Dr Death’s book

By SPCS | Published: June 27, 2008

Copy of second application to Board President – Ms Claudia Elliott, dated 27 June 2008  

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Fight continues to ban euthanasia book

By SPCS | Published: June 26, 2008

  By JENNY LING – The Dominion Post Thursday, 26 June 2008 Pro-life groups trying to stop a euthanasia book from going on sale are vowing to fight on despite their latest efforts being rejected. The Film and Literature Review Board declined last week requests by Right to Life and The Society for the Promotion [...]

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Shame on all Abortion Supervisory Committee Members: NZ’s Abortion Rate worst in Western world.

By SPCS | Published: June 20, 2008

The Abortion Supervisory Committee (ASC) has the responsibility of keeping under review all the provisions of the abortion law in New Zealand, and the operation and effect of those provisions in practice. This includes licensing institutions for the performance of abortions and appointment of certifying consultants to consider cases. In 2007 it cost New Zealand [...]

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Thank You Ken Orr & Right to Life

By SPCS | Published: June 19, 2008

You Tube Video posted in appreciation by an admirer See: http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JTow-oumY Also see: Abortion – High Court decision http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=z1k8u5zDTWw The Case brought by Right to Life against the Abortion Supervisory Committee has highlighted that:

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Latest Stats Reveal Pro-Abortion Policy Failure

By SPCS | Published: June 18, 2008

Press Release 18 June 2008 In the light of Statistics New Zealand’s latest figures showing that 18,380 abortions were performed in the year ended 31 December 2007, Society president John Mills is very angry and says: “By far the most dangerous place for a developing child to be in New Zealand is inside their mother’s [...]

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Formal Complaints lodged over Hateful, Obscene Pro-Abortion Propaganda YouTube Video

By SPCS | Published: June 17, 2008

Media Release 17 June 2008 Complaint to Childrens Commissioner and Chief Censor Over Gay Pro-Abortion Propaganda, ’Hate Speech’, Defamation, Obscenities and Exploitation of Children in a YouTube Video. The Society has today raised formal complaints with both the Office of the Childrens’ Commissioner Dr Cindy Kiro and the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, over a Pro-Abortion, Obscenity-ladden [...]

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Lindsay Perigo’s speech that ‘launched’ Dr Death’s book

By SPCS | Published: June 14, 2008

Peaceful Pill Book ‘Launched’ in NZ. Perigo labels those responsible for seeking to restrict or ban The Peaceful Pill Handbook as motivated by “religious bigotry” and only fit for the trash-can of human history. Dr Philip Nitschke’s Peaceful Pill Handbook was launched in Auckland on Sunday 13th February 2007. The next day an application from [...]

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Society confident of ban on The Peaceful Pill Handbook

By SPCS | Published: June 13, 2008

Media Release 13 June 2008 The Society is confident that The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New Revised International Edition) co-authored by Dr Phillip Nitschke (dubbed ‘Dr Death’ by the media) will be banned by early next week by the President of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Elliott, in response to its application [...]

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Society President Angry over Pro-Abortionists’ Crimes and Deception

By SPCS | Published: June 11, 2008

Press Release 11 June 2008 Society president John Mills is very angry and says: “In the Silent Screams DVD promoted on our Society’s website (www.spcs.org) an unborn child is torn apart without anaesthetic. Someone needs to be held to account for such brutal murders carried out every day in New Zealand with taxpayers’ funding. By [...]

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Application for Interim Restriction Order Against The Peaceful Pill Handbook by ‘Dr Death’ [Nitschke]

By SPCS | Published: June 9, 2008

On 5 June 2008 the Society made an application to the President of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Elliott, for an Interim Restriction Order under s. 49 of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 (“the Act”), with respect to The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New International Revised Edition), coauthored by [...]

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