RIGHT TO LIFE NEW ZEALAND

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 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 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

Mike and Alicia Hernon from the "Messy Family Project" are coming to Christchurch! Their talk on Growing a Family Culture is all about the reality of family life; about how the small, often unseen things in our homes shape our children, our relationships, and the kind of family we become. Not through perfection, but through intention.

Right to Life stands with women in celebrating motherhood in a culture of life. “Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation… What on God’s good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?

Media Release 26 April 2026 We must never forget the supreme sacrifice that our servicemen and service women made during wartimes, in order that future generations may be born and live in freedom and enjoy the inalienable right to life that our Creator has conferred on us at the moment of our conception. Throughout our nation there are hallowed monuments commemorating their sacrifice. Since the South African war in 1899-1902, a total of 96,241 New Zealand men and women have g

Media Release 24 April 2026 Right to Life welcomes the Vatican’s timely publication of the pro-life document, “Life is always a good.” This important document celebrates the 58th anniversary of the brilliant pastoral care encyclical “Humanae Vitae” given to the world by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1968. This prophetic encyclical accurately revealed the evils that would result from the introduction of the intrinsically evil contraceptive pill, abortion, infanticide, IVF, the breakdo

Media Release 13 April 2026 Right to Life questions whether Winston Peters and New Zealand First are pro-life. Right to Life is disappointed that a perusal of the policies of NZ First for the 2026 general election reveal a complete absence of any policy to protect the lives of unborn children or of the vulnerable in our community threatened by euthanasia. Right to life believes that the first duty of those we elect to sit in our parliament, is to protect the right to life of

Media Release 9 April 2026 Right to Life believes that the killing of God’s precious infants gives great offence to our Creator and is a crime against humanity. Abortion is from the culture of death and the war against women and the family. Every woman considering an abortion in New Zealand should be fully informed on the life promoting options of parenting, adoption and fostering. Why aren’t they informed ? Right to Life believes that the extremely small number of adoptions

Media Release 5 April 2026 Right to Life believes that the pharmacies of Bargain Chemists and Chemist Warehouse are death peddlers and enable the killing of defenceless unborn children. Right to Life believes that all of the Bargain Chemists 27 pharmacies, and Chemist Warehouse’s 70 pharmacies are prepared to sell and dispense prescriptions to poison and kill their unborn patients. It is believed that they are responsible for killing thousands of unborn children since 2023. P

Media Release 29 March 2026 The global day of action to destigmatise abortion on 28 March continues the war against women and their precious unborn children. She * Rights are promoting this initiative in New Zealand, careful not to disclose its association with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa, formerly Family Planning New Zealand. From the beginning of time the human race has upheld the stigma of murder to condemn the taking of i

Media Release 24 March 2026 Right to Life commends Family Life International for conducting a 40 Days for Life Lenten prayer vigil near the Auckland Medical Aid Centre abortion facility. Prayer, fasting, and peaceful witness and community outreach are the hallmarks of 40 Days for Life, a global initiative to end abortion, and save lives. As we reflect this year during the forty days of Lent on the sacrifice of Christ in His passion and death, we shoul