Abortion pills kill the unborn and wounds their mothers

Media Release 30 April 2025

Right to Life requests that in the interest of protecting women’s health, the Minister of Health Simeon Brown ban the dangerous and lethal abortion pills, Mifepristone and Misoprostol. The abortion pills are not medicine, but are deadly drugs which kill a defenceless unborn child and wounds their mother spiritually, physically and psychologically.

The Ministry of Health deceives women by telling them that the lethal abortion pills are both effective in killing unborn children and protecting their health.

Following alarming new research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, we now know that one in ten women who take the abortion pill suffer serious, sometimes life-threatening complications—including sepsis, haemorrhaging, and infection.

This ground-breaking study analysed 865,727 women who had subjected themselves to Mifepristone abortions between 2017 and 2023. This is the largest study ever conducted into the magnitude of the complications arising within 45 days from taking the abortion pill. This study does not measure the appalling spiritual damage inflicted on every woman who is cajoled and deceived into accepting the murder of their child as a ”health service”.

The study revealed that the real harm rate of 10.93% is at least 22 times worse than the figure which the abortion industry and manufacturers have long claimed.

The number of women who ended up in hospital Accident & Emergency departments in connection with their abortion was 40,960 ie 4.73 % of the total.

The Ministry of Health presides over the abortion industry in New Zealand. The Ministry, which supports the right of women to kill their children effectively for any reason up to birth, seeks to encourage women for their safety to choose to poison their defenceless unborn children within the child’s first ten weeks of life. The Ministry of Health has advised Right to Life that In 2024 that there was a provisional total of 11,285 women who had their unborn child killed in an early medical abortion, i.e. more than 60% of the total abortions of 17,123 inflicted on women in 2024.

The Ministry is anxious that no woman, regardless of where she lives in New Zealand, should be denied this government funded “health service”. The government will have the lethal abortion pills couriered to her home or have the prescription forwarded to her local pharmacist, who is an abortion provider.

She can then accept sole responsibility for poisoning her child by taking the lethal drugs and disposing of the body of her unborn child..

Right to Life weeps with our women who have to endure the appalling psychological trauma of the death of their child.

Right to Life stands unashamedly for the sanctity of life and the dignity of every woman and child, our women deserve better, we will not be silenced. The war against women must cease, ban the abortion pills.

Ken Orr,

Secretary,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.