RIGHT TO LIFE NEW ZEALAND

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