Christchurch to Remain New Zealand’s “Abortion City”

   When visitors to the country ask how many children have been killed in New Zealand by abortion since the passing of the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act in 1977, it is convenient to point to some town or city that has about that number of people in it, so that they can visualise the size of the holocaust that has gone on.

Christchurch viewed from the Port Hills (Wikipedia)

  Since 2008, Christchurch has had that macabre distinction, after taking over from Manukau City.

   By the end of 2010, Christchurch would have been expected to pass the mantle to Auckland.  However, with advent of the Super City, the old Auckland, of some 440,000 people, will no longer be a separate entity.  So Christchurch will be kept on as the poster city for the abortion industry.  Interested persons will need to imagine a group of children somewhere between the size of Christchurch City (375,000) and the whole of the Canterbury Region (540,000) being slaughtered.

   The current cumulative death toll is over 400,000, and rising steadily.

Other Countries

   Other countries have their “abortion cities” as well, of course.  In Australia, Brisbane is the abortion city, having taken over from Perth in 2004.  So, when you next fly over Brisbane (population 2.0 million) when going to the Gold Coast, spare a thought for the 2.1 million Australian babies killed since 1970 (Australian state abortion laws began to be liberalised from 1969).

   As for the USA, it only took six years after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 for the cumulative number of abortions in the USA to exceed the population of the country’s largest city.  By the end of 1979, over 8 million babies had been killed by abortion, whereas the population of New York City was about 7.1 million (having declined from 7.9 million in 1969).

   So in the USA one has to look for the Abortion state!  The first state to receive the honour was New Jersey in 1979.  New York State carried the baton from 1985 to 1988, as the abortion total rose from 17.5 million to 22.5 million, but had to pass to California in 1989 (23.8 million).

   The rapidly increasing population of California closely matched the rising abortion toll until 1993 (30.0 million).  The next year (31.4 million), one needed to take in neighbouring Nevada as well.

   In 2010, the number of children killed in the USA by abortion is approaching 50 million.  This amounts to the current combined population of five south-western states: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Idaho.

What is the point?

   A society will be judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable members.  Unborn children are arguably the most defenceless and vulnerable, yet their continuous slaughter (about 50 per day in New Zealand) gets virtually no coverage in the media – compared with the banner headlines afforded the relatively few children killed after birth. 

  Many people today are quite unaware of the huge numbers involved, instead perceiving abortion to be rare.  Publicising the “Abortion City” is a way of promoting awareness in the public mind of the dreadful reality.

  Those who turn a blind eye to injustice and conspire to hide it are complicit in it and will be judged accordingly.