Media Release 24 February 2026 In response to an OIA request, Right to Life was advised by the Ministry of Health that only 1,840 women, 10% of the women who had an abortion in 2024, sought pre-abortion counselling. Right to Life believes that many of these women who are coerced to kill their child before it is born, are discouraged by those intimidating the women not to seek counselling. The Ministry of Health claim that they strongly encourage women to receive pre abortion

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