SpeechPart 2 Amendments to other enactmentsJOANNE HAYES (National): I stand to talk about my Supplementary Order Paper 463. I want to talk about the value of children and what they mean to all families in New Zealand—to grandparents to aunts and uncles to brothers and sisters—and I want to talk about the value that children have had and where this Government has been sitting over the rights of children.My Supplementary Order Paper looks at children accessing abortion and that is in section 38 of the Care of Children Act 2004. What my Supplementary Order Paper does is insert after Subpart 3 Subpart 3A to seek to amend the Care of Children Act 2004—to actually have that whole section repealed so that children cannot go off and have an abortion without their parents their caregiver or their guardian knowing about it and so that children and medical specialists have to gain permission from the parents or the guardians of that child to access an abortion. Currently in the Care of Children Act 2004 in section 38 it is very clear in that children can access abortion and that is abortion right up to the birth of a child. This is not good legislation.If this abortion bill is to go ahead then we need to make sure that we protect our children so that they cannot—cannot—just bowl on up to an abortion clinic and have an abortion. I also want to talk a little bit more in general about children and mothers who may access an abortion because their child has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Our emails have been flooded with people that are very concerned that this bill will actually end the lives of those unborn children. This Abortion Legislation Bill is a very bad bill. It is bad because it is committing the unborn child to death and the unborn child has no right of reply. This bill is also allowing children to go off and have an abortion right up to the birth date of their unborn child without the parents' knowing about it. How horrified I would be if I had a daughter that went off and had an abortion of my mokopuna that I didn't even know that she was carrying. How shocking would that be to my whānau how shocking would that be to her brothers and sisters if I had a daughter? I have sons and they have partners and wives and those women would not dare to access this service. So I want to ask this House I want to ask the Government: do you really care for children? Do you really care for the unborn child? Because with the way that this bill is written they do not.As I said in my first speech in Part 1 and also in the first reading we as Māori—we love our mokopuna. They are our future. This bill effectively ends their life before they even get a life and that's why in my SOP 463 I'm asking that people support after Subpart 3 new clause 16A the Amendment of the Care of Children Act 2004"—that's by repealing it. They in new clause 16B repeal section 38—consent to abortion for children. Let the parents know this. As a parent I would be devastated and I know there will be a number of parents out there. This is a bill that effectively ends the life as I have said over and over again in this House and I cannot say it more. And my colleagues that are against this bill as I am will also get up and speak around not supporting this abortion legislation. Let this particular SOP go through. Let's protect our children."