Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Why do we hate our children?
Abortion statistics released this week are a shocking indictment of how much New Zealand society now hates children. Last year, 18,511 children were aborted, an increase of 6.5% on the previous year’s record, and the third-highest rate in the Western World.
A third of those abortions were carried out on women aged 20-24 ... that is, the women who were once the leading child bearers. Now, they have one abortion for every 2½ births. Asian women were disproportionately represented in the figures, also. They accounted for 19% of all abortions, yet they make up only around 7% of the female population. Basically, they are simply using abortion as birth control, and doctors are happy to help them.
Most shocking of all, 89 young girls between the ages of 11 and 14 had abortions. As the law currently stands, they could all have had their babies killed without their parents being aware. (Incidentally, that law was sponsored by Helen Clark before she became Prime Minister.) The law is carried over in the Care of Children Bill currently before Parliament, and many groups believe it is imperative to bring in some form of parent notification or consent.
Abortion is symptomatic of serious sexual and social dysfunction. Since legalisation in the late 1970s, 296,885 New Zealand children (a staggering 9,900 classrooms of 30 children) have been ‘terminated’. This is the real reason schools are being closed, and that our fertility rate has plummeted below replacement level.
What an outcry there is when an abused child dies – and rightly so – but this quiet, systematic rejection of our children is going on every day all around the nation.
Abortion statistics released this week are a shocking indictment of how much New Zealand society now hates children. Last year, 18,511 children were aborted, an increase of 6.5% on the previous year’s record, and the third-highest rate in the Western World.
A third of those abortions were carried out on women aged 20-24 ... that is, the women who were once the leading child bearers. Now, they have one abortion for every 2½ births. Asian women were disproportionately represented in the figures, also. They accounted for 19% of all abortions, yet they make up only around 7% of the female population. Basically, they are simply using abortion as birth control, and doctors are happy to help them.
Most shocking of all, 89 young girls between the ages of 11 and 14 had abortions. As the law currently stands, they could all have had their babies killed without their parents being aware. (Incidentally, that law was sponsored by Helen Clark before she became Prime Minister.) The law is carried over in the Care of Children Bill currently before Parliament, and many groups believe it is imperative to bring in some form of parent notification or consent.
Abortion is symptomatic of serious sexual and social dysfunction. Since legalisation in the late 1970s, 296,885 New Zealand children (a staggering 9,900 classrooms of 30 children) have been ‘terminated’. This is the real reason schools are being closed, and that our fertility rate has plummeted below replacement level.
What an outcry there is when an abused child dies – and rightly so – but this quiet, systematic rejection of our children is going on every day all around the nation.
