Nazare Surf Pixie
At midnight on Friday 25 August the right to protest peacefully was removed from New Zealanders who oppose abortion. An amendment to the Contraception, Abortion and Sterilisation Act allows for pro-life supporters to be arrested and fined if they are visible inside newly created “safe areas”.
The abortion debate is a serious one with both sides claiming to uphold human rights. Seemingly the pro-abortion lobbyists have won this victory by protecting women from the perceived harm of the pro-life message.
However, more than the obvious suppression of freedom of speech there is a more subversive motive at play here that needs exposure.
It is possible that abortion activists have played right into the hands of Big Pharma. For decades, they have fought hard to promote the women’s rights narrative and, to the benefit of the drug companies, have suppressed information about the side effects of abortion and contraception.
The current laws in New Zealand support health care which funnels women into a system with commercial goals. This is extremely unfair. Women and children are not commodities.
The current health model monetises women’s health care and makes financial gains from private interest groups so, naturally, women seeking abortion are only being given one side of the story.
And there’s the rub.
We all know the popular pro-abortion mantra that abortion is a woman’s right. The pro-life view has always been that women need support and full information about the dangers of abortion to the mother’s fertility, potential complications and the ongoing struggle with mental health problems following abortion. Not to mention the fact that they are killing their own baby.
In New Zealand, the Health and Disability Act says patients, including women seeking abortion, must have access to information so they can give informed consent.
Sadly, the silent protesters outside abortion facilities were the only people offering gentle and fully informed consent to women seeking abortion. Now this has been entirely removed.
Informed consent undermines profit, so messaging around women’s rights has been used to march abortion acceptance into society for the benefit of the profiteers.
Preventing the public protest of abortion by enforcing safe zones limits the exposure women have to a point of view that is not funded by Big Pharma. In stark contrast, there is zero financial gain for organisations helping women to keep their babies.
Women need to wake up to Big Pharma peddling their “health wares”.
Women have been played and, through their participation, New Zealand Police now have the right to restrict the freedom of speech of pro-life women and men.
This sets a precedent. The question remains, who will be next?
