Abortionist, Dame Margaret Sparrow honoured for killing thousands of unborn children!

Media Release 2 June 2025

Dr Sparrow was trained to protect life, it is disappointing that she devoted her considerable medical skills to destroying it. Right to Life prays that when Dame Margaret Sparrow appears before the judgment seat of God to give an accounting of her life that God will be merciful.

Dame Margaret Sparrow has been honoured by the Otago Medical School with an honorary Doctorate of Science for her promotion of contraception, sterilisation and abortion. The Otago Medical School is celebrating its 150th anniversary and has chosen Dame Margaret Sparrow, as an illustrious alumni who has made an outstanding contribution to women’s health.

Right to Life questions the appropriateness of this prestigious award, why would you want to honour and applaud a doctor who, in violation of medical ethics, has killed thousands of defenceless unborn children and grievously wounded their mothers? Western society rests firmly on the foundations of the Judeo-Christian ethic and The Fifth commandment of God is “thou shalt not kill.” It is always wrong to kill another innocent human being and we ignore this at our peril.

Dame Margaret Sparrow was a leading abortionist in New Zealand and was the Director of the Parkview Abortion Clinic in Wellington from 1980 until 1998. During this period she oversaw the killing of tens of thousands of innocent unborn children. It is estimated that she was personally responsible for the violent and painful dismemberment of tens of thousands of children before birth.

As a GP, she opened New Zealand’s first abortion clinic and vasectomy clinic, she held the post of President of the Abortion Law Reform Society for more than 30 years, and is acknowledged as a ‘trailblazer’ in the campaign for legal abortion in NZ. She has held various roles within the New Zealand Family Planning Association since 1971.

Right to Life makes no apology in speaking up on behalf of our precious unborn whose humanity and right to life she cruelly denied, they were considered of little worth and their broken and dismembered bodies were dispatched as “medical waste” to the local landfill. Rather than being publicly lauded, Right to Life believes she is guilty of crimes against humanity. We also protest on behalf of their mothers, the second victim of abortion, who are wounded and left with a lifetime of grief and sorrow.

Right to Life believes that this award is a sad indictment against the Otago Medical School which should be upholding a culture of life by promoting respect for the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death and not promoting a culture of death.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life