Media Release 28 December 2025 The murder of all the male children under two in Bethlehem on the orders of King Herod is a stark reminder that the murder of innocent children continues today. For more than 500 years the Catholic Church has commemorated the murder and martyrdom of the Holy Innocents, who were killed by an enraged King Herod, in a futile attempt to kill Christ the King, whom he saw as a threat to his reign. King Herod the tyrant is dead, but the culture of dea

Media Release 19 December 2025 The Ministry of Health reveals in its report on abortion statistics for 2024 that 11,392 unborn children were killed in their mother’s womb in early medical abortions during the first 10 weeks of their life; this is 67% of the 17,785 abortions reported in 2024. Right to Life weeps with God for His precious infants lost and for their precious mothers grievously wounded. Right to Life is appalled that the government has now pressured the noble pro

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 New Zealand repealed the death penalty for homicide and treason in 1961.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