Lent a time to reflect on suffering inflicted on the Creator by the murder of His precious infants!

Media Release 24 March 2026

Right to Life commends Family Life International for conducting a 40 Days for Life Lenten prayer vigil near the Auckland Medical Aid Centre abortion facility. Prayer, fasting, and peaceful witness and community outreach are the hallmarks of 40 Days for Life, a global initiative to end abortion, and save lives.

As we reflect this year during the forty days of Lent on the sacrifice of Christ in His passion and death, we should repent of the pain and suffering that is inflicted on our Creator by the murder of His precious infants in the womb of their mothers.

The Ministry of Health that presides over the multi-million dollar abortion industry in New Zealand recently advised Right to Life, that the provisional total of abortions for 2025 was 17,964. Each one of these children was a unique and unrepeatable miracle of His creation that was created to love and to be loved. They did not die alone, He was there with them in the womb at their death to comfort them and to console them in their agony and to share their grief and pain.

He was also there for their mothers, longing to forgive them and to bestow on them His healing grace.

We cannot conceive of the excruciating pain and grief experienced by our Creator, as He witnesses His precious infants, unique and unrepeatable miracles of His loving creation being poisoned, scraped out of their mother’s womb or being violently dismembered.

In a media release made in 2025, Bishop Thomas of the American Catholic Bishops Conference, reminded us that every child in the womb is a precious soul, known and loved by God, and that our Lenten sacrifices strengthen us in our resolve to defend life, support mothers in need and to build a culture of life and mercy.

He wanted to “personally invite” all those suffering from an abortion “to come home to God, who eagerly awaits your return, and come home to the Church.” “God’s gift of hope allows you to expect His comfort as you grieve for the loss of your aborted children.”

Have mercy on all those supporting the abortion industry -- the abortionists, politicians, lawyers, journalists, doctors, nurses, midwives and ordinary citizens -- that they might have the grace to realize the awfulness of the sin they promote, repent their fault, and do what they can to stop abortion -- in our country and in the whole world.

Have mercy on all those who, guilty of the sin of abortion, are tempted to despair of ever being forgiven.

May they in reflecting on the Passion and Death of Christ come to a keen realization that the atonement of the crucified Son of God is so great that only their refusal to confess their sin and repent their fault can render them unqualified for their Saviour's loving embrace.

Have mercy on all those mothers, fathers, abortionists and staff who have committed abortions; may they all have the honesty and the integrity to admit the awfulness of their sin, the grace to repent and the determination to atone by helping others avoid the fatal folly of which they have been guilty.

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.