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 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 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 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 24 April 2024 The Deputy Prime Minister, the Honourable Winston Peters believes that “abortion should be legal and rare,...