Media Release 21 June 2026 Right to Life asks: what justification can the New Zealand Ministry of Health have for adopting an aggressive anti-life policy to prevent the birth of unborn New Zealanders and restrict and oppress the right of doctors to treat their patients with the successful Abortion Pill protocol? There are a number of states in the USA, which provide a legal requirement for doctors to advise women considering an Early Medical Abortion, of their right to change

Media Release 17 June 2026 Christopher Hipkins announced on Tuesday 16 June, that if Labour is elected at the next election to govern New Zealand, it would provide free pregnancy scans as part of the Medicard scheme commencing in July 2028. Why is The Right Hon. Christopher Hipkins hiding the truth, that included in this announcement are free pregnancy scans for women who are seeking an abortion, who want to know the gestational age of their baby or an assurance that they do

Media Release 14 June 2026 Right to Life believes that those who seek to govern us, who are not prepared to protect the lives of our precious unborn children, should not be trusted to protect the lives of the born. Right to Life is grievously disappointed that there has been no reply to our repeated requests to the six political parties that sit in our Parliament, asking them what their election policies are to protect the lives of God’s precious infants in the next Parliame

Media Release 6 June 2026 The NZ parliament is currently giving consideration to a government Bill, entitled : Improving Arrangements for Surrogacy, which awaits its second reading. Right to Life believes that maternal surrogacy is fundamentally and intrinsically evil. No legislation for surrogacy can be improved with amendments, surrogacy is fundamentally wrong, it is not a health service and the Surrogacy legislation should be repealed. Surrogacy is intrinsically evil,

Media Release: 30 May 2026 Right to Life supports the passing of the Modern Slavery Bill. We are opposed to all forms of slavery and applaud the bill's objective to defend human rights. It is noted that this bill only recognises the slavery of people overseas and fails to recognise that we have slavery in New Zealand which is permitted by legislation and funded by the state. Link here to the Right to Life Submission to the government concerning the Modern Slavery Bill. Slaver

Mike and Alicia Hernon from the "Messy Family Project" are coming to Christchurch! Their talk on Growing a Family Culture is all about the reality of family life; about how the small, often unseen things in our homes shape our children, our relationships, and the kind of family we become. Not through perfection, but through intention.

Right to Life stands with women in celebrating motherhood in a culture of life. “Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation… What on God’s good earth is more glorious than this: to be a mother?

Media Release 26 April 2026 We must never forget the supreme sacrifice that our servicemen and service women made during wartimes, in order that future generations may be born and live in freedom and enjoy the inalienable right to life that our Creator has conferred on us at the moment of our conception. Throughout our nation there are hallowed monuments commemorating their sacrifice. Since the South African war in 1899-1902, a total of 96,241 New Zealand men and women have g

Media Release 24 April 2026 Right to Life welcomes the Vatican’s timely publication of the pro-life document, “Life is always a good.” This important document celebrates the 58th anniversary of the brilliant pastoral care encyclical “Humanae Vitae” given to the world by Pope Saint Paul VI in 1968. This prophetic encyclical accurately revealed the evils that would result from the introduction of the intrinsically evil contraceptive pill, abortion, infanticide, IVF, the breakdo

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