Anzac Day – lest we forget, did they die in vain?

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 given their lives in war.

Right to Life believes that it is an illusion that we are now living in peace, and that we are no longer engaged in bloody warfare, with New Zealanders being victims of aggression of foreign aggressors.

The tragedy is that New Zealand is engaged in the most violent war in the history of this country. It is a war against our own women and their precious unborn children.

It is a war that is conducted and funded by our own government. This is a war that is not being conducted on some foreign battle ground, but in our own country.

In God’s plan, the womb was designed to be a place of love, peace and sanctuary for His precious children, but has become a bloody battle ground, which claims the life of one in five defenceless unborn children, who are poisoned, scraped from their mother’s womb, or dismembered with their precious violated and mutilated bodies treated as medical waste.

The declaration of war against our own women commenced when Parliament passed the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act in December 1977. This war was intensified when Parliament passed the Abortion Legislation Act in March 2020, which defined the unborn child as an enemy and a threat to the community. Parliament has declared that it was no longer a crime to kill an unborn child, who was now not a human being with a right to life. Every woman now had the right to kill her children before they are born, under the guise that this was health care.

Since the declaration of war against women and the unborn in 1977, more than 560,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children have been murdered in their mother’s womb. Their mothers are the wounded second victim of abortion, and could suffer a lifetime of grief and sorrow with spiritual, physical and psychological damage.

Peace begins in the womb. New Zealand will increasingly grow in violence and will never know true peace, nor may we claim to be a just society, while we continue to make war against women and their precious unborn children. Right to Life asks: when will our Parliament legislate to stop this violent and bloody war against women and our unborn?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.