RIGHT TO LIFE NEW ZEALAND

Media Release 17 October 2026 Winston Peters, leader of NZ First recently confirmed his belief that “human life began at conception”. Right to Life believes that Winston Peters is an outstanding advocate for justice and he is admirably placed to now promote legislation that would give legal recognition of the unborn child from conception as a human being endowed with a right to life. This legislation would be pro-life and pro-women, according to women the respect that should

Media Release 11 October 2026 The leaders debate on TV1 on Tuesday 6 October 2026 carefully ignored the major justice issue confronting New Zealand today, the killing of New Zealanders in the first nine months of their life in violation of their God-given inalienable right to life from conception to natural death. This carefully orchestrated debate ensured that the war against women and the violation of the right to life of our precious unborn children, were both studiously i

Media Release 9 October 2026 Right to Life commends Winston Peters for rightly calling abortion murder. Right to Life believes that a nation that murders its own children is a nation without a future. In a recent interview with Bob McCoskrie of Family First, Winston Peters, when asked about abortion, said “the facts” were worth re-visiting. “At its worst, and it’s a matter of timing, but it shades into a thing called murder.” “It shades into a thing called murder or assassin

Media Release 6 October 2026 Right to Life encourages our community to vote to protect the lives of God’s precious infants and the vulnerable in our community, by voting for the New Conservative Party at this year’s general election. Those who are not prepared to govern to protect the unborn, should not be trusted to govern the born. Human life begins at conception. The most dangerous place for a New Zealander today is in the mother’s womb. The first priority for those who si

Media Release 29 September 2026 Right to Life challenges the international pro-abortion movement and abortion profiteers who celebrate the killing of defenceless children. They perpetuate the fiction in their war against women by calling abortion “safe” and celebrating International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September 2026. The abortion industry denies the humanity of the unborn child, and upholds the fiction that the child does not become a human being endowed with an inalien

Media Release 25 September 2026 Right to Life believes that the secretary General of the United Nations should recognise that every human being is an unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation deserving of love and respect. Michelle Bachelet was the front runner and most favoured for election, as the Secretary General of the United Nations. She is a radical feminist and socialist, former president of Chile, who promised to make abortion an international human right, has be

Media Release 18 September 2026 Right to Life believes that there is an urgent need for our community to oppose those pharmacists in New Zealand, who prescribe and sell abortion pills to kill God’s precious infants before they are born. Abortion providers do not deserve our patronage. The Ministry of Health has advised Right to Life that the provisional number of Early Medical Abortions (EMAs) performed in 2025 was 11871, which represents 67% of the total of 17,964 abortions

Media Release 10 September 2026 Gloria Steinem betrayed women and the family by advocating false reproductive freedom that allowed women to kill their children before they were born, this is not genuine feminism but anti-feminism. Right to Life is praying for the happy repose of the soul of Gloria Steinem. We grieve with her family who mourn her death. It is a tragedy that she did not recognise God’s plan for the family as founded exclusively on marriage between one man an

Media Release 5 September 2026 Right to Life believes that churches should be at the forefront in defending the lives of God’s precious infants and their mothers. Right to Life commends the United States Catholic Bishop’s Conference for recently initiating a campaign of prayer and action to stop pharmacies selling lethal abortion pills to kill unborn children in Early Medical Abortions during their first ten weeks of life. Right to Life encourages churches in New Zealand to

Media Release 30 August 2026 The United Nations Human Rights Council [ UNHRC] is currently conducting its fifth periodic review of New Zealand’s compliance with the UN Convention Against Torture. Right to Life believes that poisoning, scraping unborn children from their mother’s wombs or dismembering them is violent torture, contravening human rights and the UN Convention Against Torture. Right to Life believes that The United Nations should be at the forefront in defending t

Media Release 23 August 2026 Matthew 5:10: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister who commendably recognises abortion as murder should rescind his declaration that the abortion legislation is fixed law and may not be changed while he is Prime Minister, to provide protection for the lives of unborn children and their mothers. Right to Life believes that his declaration

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 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