Is your pharmacist prepared to poison and kill unborn children?

Media Release 1 March 2026

In response to an Official Information Act request from Right to Life, the Ministry of Health recently advised, ” that there are currently 550 pharmacies that they have indicated that they will provide Early Medical Abortion [EMA] medicines if presented with a prescription for these medicines. “

There were 11,892 unborn children who were killed by poisoning by pharmacists in EMA’s in 2024. The drugs used were Mifepristone and Misoprostol. Right to Life is appalled at the high number of pharmacies which are prepared to supply medications to kill their unborn patients.

There are an estimated 1,100 registered pharmacies in New Zealand. Right to Life is disappointed that 50% of pharmacies are prepared to violate the fifth commandment of God, You shall not kill. They are also prepared to violate Principle 1 of the pharmacy profession’s ethics, “A pharmacist makes the health and wellbeing of the patient their first priority.”

Human life begins at conception. Every unborn child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation that is endowed by its Creator with an inalienable right to life..

Right to Life is disappointed that the Pharmacy Council does not recognise that in God’s plan for procreation, that human life begins at conception. The Pharmacy Council does not require as a condition for registration that pharmacists believe that the unborn child is a human being and is a patient that deserves respect and protection.

It is morally inconsistent for pharmacists to have a duty to protect a pregnancy, and to ensure that every medication that is given to a pregnant woman will not harm the pregnancy while having a duty to dispense dangerous drugs to kill her unborn child in its first 10 weeks of life.

Right to Life commends those pharmacists who refuse to dispense the abortion pills to kill innocent and defenceless unborn children. They are upholding the biological truth that unborn children are human beings and are their most vulnerable patients.

Those pharmacists who uphold the commandment of God not to kill, deserve the trust of the community. Right to Life believes that those pharmacists who we cannot trust to protect the lives of unborn children should not be trusted to care for the born, and not cause them to die.

Pharmacies should be selling medications and remedies to help people live and flourish, but now they are selling lethal pills meant to kill children in the first ten weeks of life.

Right to Life asks, will you fight for the unborn and their mothers and protect the health and life of your family by patronising only pharmacies which refuse to dispense these murder pills?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.