Right to Life New Zealand obviously has no shame whatsoever when it comes to exploiting the public tragedy of others when it comes to ridiculous and irrelevant comparisons with safe, legal abortion access.

What happened to little Nia was obscene, and I’m glad that her assailants have been locked away behind bars where they belong. I’d like to know why the hell there wasn’t adequate child welfare service investigation of her living situation, and why no-one reported on the violent and murderous behaviour of her adult assailants.

Orr takes the opportunity to rant and rave about women’s reproductive freedom. How can we condemn the brutal murder of an innocent little girl, yet not shed a tear about pre-sentient embryos and fetuses, he drones?

Actually, I’d like to know how “we” can condemn the brutal murder of an innocent little girl, and yet sadistically force young adolescents under sixteen to engage in life-endangering judicial bypasses even in the case of incest and severely dysfunctional home environments. The latter is called “parental notification and consent” and it is one of the incremental anti-abortion laws that one hopes President-elect Obama will strike down when he passes the Freedom of Choice Act into US law. 

 Mind you, the Christian Right mostly seems to live in a fantasy world where violence against women doesn’t exist, or is excused in the name of ‘conjugal rights’ in the case of spousal rape, and where savage assaults on small children are disguised under the dishonest euphemism “smacking.”

And for Orr’s information, the pro-choice side of the abortion debate believes that every child should be a wanted child precisely because we want an end to murderous, horrific assaults like those on that poor little girl at the centre of this tragedy. Bring a baby into severe poverty and in a context where child assault prevention services are still underfunded shamefully, and don’t be surprised at this sort of outcome.

Exactly how is exacerbating this situation through restricting or prohibiting abortion supposed to help? For shame, Mr. Orr.

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