Media Release 11 December 2025 Christopher Hipkins, leader of the Labour party, is asking the community to elect him and the Labour Party at the general election in 2026 to govern us for the next 3 years. He should be prepared to be intently scrutinised by the community, to ensure that he will uphold the right to life of every human being from conception, and promote marriage as exclusively one man and one women. Those who seek to govern us should be committed to protecting

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 New Zealand repealed the death penalty for homicide and treason in 1961.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 5 November 2025 Right to Life calls on the Ministry of Health to urgently ensure that appropriate palliative care for babies born alive following an abortion is provided. Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation, endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life. Right to Life asks the Ministry of Health: why then are babies born alive from an abortion being abandoned, denied care and being left to die? In response to an

Media Release 1 November 2025 Right to Life is opposed to the government’s continued blatant and intolerable violation of the conscience rights of health professionals. Parliament has provided limited legal protection for the conscience rights of health professionals. Legislation allows for a health professional to refuse to participate in the killing by abortion of an unborn child or the euthanising of a vulnerable patient. However, the legislation requires that if the healt

Media Release 24 October 2025. Right to Life asks: The next time you walk into a pharmacy, are you patronising a pharmacist who is an abortion provider, who willingly fills prescriptions for lethal abortion drugs, intended to poison and kill unborn children in first ten weeks of life? Right to Life believes that those pharmacists that do this, have the blood of innocent unborn children on their hands. Pharmacies are required to uphold the ethics of pharmacy set by the Pharmac

Media Release 19 October 2025 The New Zealand Catholic Bishop’s Conference have adopted the theme for Respect for life for October 2025, “pilgrims of hope . Building a culture of love and life.” October is observed by the Catholic Church as Respect Life month, a time for reflection on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. During this month, the church encourages activities which celebrate, defend, and cherish life, such as prayer, education, and communi

Media Release 13 October 2025 The multimillion dollar abortion industry in New Zealand is funded by the government with your taxes. The first duty of the government is to protect the right to life of every member of the community from conception to natural death, and not to preside over the destruction of their life. The government foolishly and arrogantly defies the 5th Commandment of God: “You shall not kill”, believing that they can kill the unborn with impunity . Right t

Media Release 8 October 2025 Since 2002, with the introduction of Mifepristone, more than 40,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children...

Dear Friends of Life, Right to Life mourns the passing of Peter Menzies, a valiant defender of life and a faithful friend of our society. ...

Media Release 17 September 2025 Right to Life commends the five Anglican ministers and a Catholic priest for seeking to protect human...

Media Release 14 September 2025 Christian martyrdom is once again becoming an integral part of living in a neo-pagan society. Charlie...

Media Release 7 September 2025 Women in New Zealand will not achieve justice and equality until their right to be born is enshrined by...

Media Release 4 September 2025 Right to Life supports God’s loving plan for the propagation of the human race, through the institution of...

Media Release 31 August 2025 The imposition of a safe area designation on the Nelson Hospital on 24 September 2025 will be an escalation...

Media Release 26 August 2025 Right to Life requests that all members of parliament withhold their support for the End of Life Choice...

Media Release 23 August 2025 Right to Life welcomes the Catholic Bishops Conference statement on “Peace the goal for Social Justice Week”...

Media Release 17 August 2025 Right to Life requests that the Royal Commission subpoena Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins and other previous...

Media Release 11 August 2025 Right to Life requests that the government amend the Abortion Legislation Act regulations, to require...