RIGHT TO LIFE NEW ZEALAND

Media Release 14 August 2026 Euthanasia is intrinsically evil, it violates the Fifth Commandment of God, “Thou shalt not kill.” In response to an Official Information Act from Right to Life, Health New Zealand advised our Society on 12 August of the provisional total number of assisted deaths in New Zealand provided by the 10 practitioners with the highest total payments received, along with the total fees payment to each of these 10 practitioners, under the Assisted Dying Se

Media Release 11 August 2026 Does New Zealand need a Prime Minister who supports the murder of God’s precious infants and the war against women? Right to Life believes that we have a serious moral duty NOT to vote for a Prime Minister nor for any candidate for election to Parliament, who is not prepared to protect the lives of all New Zealanders from conception to natural death. Abortion is intrinsically evil and violates the Fifth commandment of God “You shall not kill.” In

Media Release 7 August 2026 Right to Life commends The Right Hon. Winston Peters, for warning our nation that our birth rate has fallen to 1.53, dangerously below the replacement level of 2.1 and that our population was on a precipice. He said that this constituted an “eleventh hour crisis.” To address this crisis, the Minister is proposing as an election policy a bonus of $5,000 being paid for each child for the first three years, with a maximum of three children per family

Media Release 1 August 2026 Right to Life requests that the Right Hon. Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, refrains from supporting the nomination of Michelle Bachelet as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. Michelle Bachelet, a former Premier of Chile, has been nominated by Brazil and Mexico. The government of Chile opposes her nomination and withdrew their support for her nomination in March 2026 because she is opposed to Chile’s defence of l

Media Release 28 July 2026 Right to Life believes that those who are not prepared to protect the lives of the unborn should not be trusted to protect the lives of the born. Right to Life believes that The Opportunity Party is not fit to sit in our Parliament. Right to Life is concerned that recent polling reveals that The Opportunity Party may be elected to our Parliament with just over 5% of the total party vote. We believe that they could become the “king maker” in decidin

Media Release 22 July 2026 Abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are intrinsically evil, as they grievously offend our Creator, and violate the fifth commandment, “You shall not kill”. They violate human rights and a are a crime against humanity. The practice of medicine demands that doctors be free to exercise their consciences in upholding the right to life of every human being and doing no harm. The culture of death is opposed to the informed conscience of doctors. Rig

Media Release 19 July 2026 The culture of death is especially a threat to all human beings from conception to birth. Today the most dangerous place for a New Zealander is in their mother’s womb. From the moment of conception until it is born the child faces execution by the State. The only grounds necessary for execution is that the child lives. No reason is required and the doctor is prohibited by law from asking. From conception, children born today are the survivors of the

Media Release 15 July 2026 The Registrar of Assisted Dying, Dr Kristen Good of the Ministry of Health, has released her annual report to the Minister of Health on the number of vulnerable patients who have been given a lethal injection by their doctor or assisted in their suicide. There were 486 vulnerable patients killed or assisted in suicide in New Zealand in the year ending 31st March 2026. This was an increase of 14 people on the 472 patients killed by euthanasia or assi

Media Release 10 July 2026 Right to Life supports and applauds Australian Law Professor Dr Joanna Howe’s courageous defence of the right to life of unborn children and the welfare of their mothers. In an attempt to silence her, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists [RANZCOG] recently threatened to sue her for defamation. The College claims that Dr Howe recently stated on social media “that the Royal College is a College of abortionis

Media Release 5 July 2026 The 4th July 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the monumental United States Declaration of Independence. The United States of America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Today Right to Life applauds the American pro-life movement and the citizens of the United States for their tireless pursuit of justice and for legal protection for the lives of the unborn and for the vulnerable. We especially applaud the United States Su

Media Release 2 July 2026 Why are our government and parliament provoking God’s chastisement of our nation in retribution for the murder of His precious infants and the violence of abortion inflicted on their mothers? Poisoning unborn children, God’s precious infants in New Zealand in their first 10 weeks of life has become the most popular means of killing the unborn. In 2025 there were 11,871 unborn babies killed in Early Medical Abortions, [EMA], 67% of the total of 17,96

Media Release 26 June 2026 Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced at the recent annual conference of the N.Z. National Party in Lower Hutt that if a National-led government were re-elected at the next general election, they would register every child at birth with a KiwiSaver account and make a deposit of $1500 into every child’s account. Right to Life commends this initiative, which recognises that our children are the future of our nation. It should, however, be seen as

Media Release 21 June 2026 Right to Life asks: what justification can the New Zealand Ministry of Health have for adopting an aggressive anti-life policy to prevent the birth of unborn New Zealanders and restrict and oppress the right of doctors to treat their patients with the successful Abortion Pill protocol? There are a number of states in the USA, which provide a legal requirement for doctors to advise women considering an Early Medical Abortion, of their right to change

Media Release 17 June 2026 Christopher Hipkins announced on Tuesday 16 June, that if Labour is elected at the next election to govern New Zealand, it would provide free pregnancy scans as part of the Medicard scheme commencing in July 2028. Why is The Right Hon. Christopher Hipkins hiding the truth, that included in this announcement are free pregnancy scans for women who are seeking an abortion, who want to know the gestational age of their baby or an assurance that they do

Media Release 14 June 2026 Right to Life believes that those who seek to govern us, who are not prepared to protect the lives of our precious unborn children, should not be trusted to protect the lives of the born. Right to Life is grievously disappointed that there has been no reply to our repeated requests to the six political parties that sit in our Parliament, asking them what their election policies are to protect the lives of God’s precious infants in the next Parliame

Media Release 6 June 2026 The NZ parliament is currently giving consideration to a government Bill, entitled : Improving Arrangements for Surrogacy, which awaits its second reading. Right to Life believes that maternal surrogacy is fundamentally and intrinsically evil. No legislation for surrogacy can be improved with amendments, surrogacy is fundamentally wrong, it is not a health service and the Surrogacy legislation should be repealed. Surrogacy is intrinsically evil,

Media Release: 30 May 2026 Right to Life supports the passing of the Modern Slavery Bill. We are opposed to all forms of slavery and applaud the bill's objective to defend human rights. It is noted that this bill only recognises the slavery of people overseas and fails to recognise that we have slavery in New Zealand which is permitted by legislation and funded by the state. Link here to the Right to Life Submission to the government concerning the Modern Slavery Bill. Slaver