Every woman has an inalienable right to be born!
- Philip Creed
- Sep 7
- 2 min read
Media Release 7 September 2025
Women in New Zealand will not achieve justice and equality until their right to be born is enshrined by Parliament in legislation.
Every human being, regardless of the circumstances of their conception, is endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life and a right to be born. Being inalienable, these human rights may not be taken away, nor may they be given up.
The most dangerous place for a woman in New Zealand today is in her mother’s womb. One in five female children are killed before birth. It is estimated that in 2024, there were more than 8,500 female unborn children who were murdered in their mother’s womb by being poisoned, scraped out of their mother’s womb, or dismembered. In response to their terrifying silent screams, we should weep at our failure to save them.
It is an appalling injustice that our New Zealand parliament passed the Abortion Legislation Act in 2020, to allow for women in their first 20 weeks of life to be murdered in the womb for any reason or none.
The innocent blood of our children soaks our land and reverberates into the future. In God’s plan, many of these female unborn children were destined to be the mothers of future generations, who will now not be born.
Why does our government approve and fund the murder of our children, and the wounding of their mothers under the guise of health care?
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is a defender of the human rights of women in New Zealand. A guiding principle of the Ministry’s strategy is to free women from violence, and to secure a safe and healthy environment for women.
Right to Life asks: Why is the Ministry not at the forefront in our nation in vigorously promoting the right of women to be free from the violence of abortion and their right to be born?
In 1893, the New Zealand parliament recognised that women had a right to vote. New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognise women’s right to vote.
Why is it then that our parliament refuses to recognise the fundamental human right of women to be born?
If women are denied this right, then all the other human rights of women become irrelevant!
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc
