So Killing unborn children is fine, but smacking is not?

Green Party MP Sue Bradford's anti-smacking bill is political correctness gone berserk.

It Is deplorable that the Government has refused Labour caucus members the democratic right to excercise a concience vote on this controversial and unnecessary bill. This is dictatorial and a threat to our democracy.

In supporting this bill, the Government continues to pursue it's social engineering, ignoring public opinion which is overwhelmingly opposed to this bill.

The Government says that it is opposed to violence against children. Violence against children begins in the womb. How can a government that supports this bill accept, sanction and fund the violent death of more than 17,000 defenceless unborn children in New Zealand each year?

The message the Government is giving to the community is that parents have a right to kill their children before birth, but after birth they may not smack them.

Ken Orr, Right to Life NZ - The Press, Letters to the Editor, February 22