Media Release 7 December 2025 The New Zealand Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, is asking the community to re-elect him in 2026, and the National Party to govern us for a further three years at our next general election. Those who seek to govern us should be committed to protecting the lives of every New Zealander from conception to natural death. Those candidates for Parliament who are not prepared to protect the right to life of unborn children, should not be trusted to pr

Media Release 4 December 2025 Right to Life commends the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference for continuing to uphold “that fighting abortion remains our pre-eminent priority”. This outstanding declaration was made in November 2025 at their meeting in Baltimore when the Bishops were discussing the election guide for 2026, “Forming Conscience for Faithful Citizenship”. The Bishops recognised that there were many other justice issues that should be considered when voting

Media Release 27 November 2025 Right to Life applauds the United States government and its Department of State, for its historic and unprecedented defence of human rights. For the first time in the history of the United States, the Federal government has declared that the killing of unborn children is a violation of human rights. The State Department has instructed its embassies and consulates around the world to record the violations of human rights of every nation, includin

Media Release 19 November 2025 Abortion is an intrinsically evil action, it violently destroys a defenceless unborn child, a miracle of God’s loving Creation and seriously wounds the mother spiritually, physically and psychologically, this is not “health care”. New Zealand repealed the death penalty for homicide and treason in 1961. Parliament has retained the death penalty for unborn children, for the crime of being “unwanted”. There is no right of appeal and the sentence is

Media Release 13 November 2025 Right to Life congratulates the John Paul II Centre for Life on its celebration of twenty years since it began building in our community a culture of life, marriage and family. The Centre has faithfully upheld the teachings of the 1968 papal encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) of Pope Paul VI. This important encyclical promotes the dignity of women and men and marriage. It opposes contraception, abortion and sterilisation, which all viola

Media Release 10 November 2025 God invites us to comfort Him and share his unspeakable pain and suffering with Him, as He endures contemplating the dismembered bodies of His beautiful unborn children, who are unrepeatable miracles of His loving creation. Dominated by the culture of death, the world refuses to acknowledge the suffering of our Creator, the author of life and the Creator of His beautiful children, who are made in His image and likeness. God, the Lord of life, ha