Opportunity Party is committed to supporting war against women and unborn!
Media Release 22 October 2026.
Right to Life believes that the media should be making the community aware of the threat to the lives of unborn New Zealanders and their mothers should the Opportunity Party be elected to our Parliament on 7th November.
The Opportunity Party claims to empower women. Right to Life believes that in reality many of its policies sadly disempower and grievously hurt women.
Right to Life believes that the Opportunity Party is not fit to sit in our Parliament as those who are not prepared to protect the lives of the unborn should not be trusted to protect the lives of the born.
The Opportunity Party supports the current extremist Abortion Legislation Act 2020, which empowers women to kill their children by poisoning them, scraping them out of their mother’s womb or violently dismembering them, effectively for any reason up to birth. The Party claims to empower women, but refuses to support the fundamental human right of all women to be born.
Our Creator created us in His image and likeness as men and women. The Party refuses to accept the biological definition of women, as being exclusively adult human beings. The Party accepts the fictional idea that males have a right to identify their gender as female. The Party is opposed to the Definitions of Woman and Man Amendment Bill, which seeks to restrict women's spaces, changing rooms, and sports categories strictly to biological females. This Bill passed its first reading on the 20th May 2026. The Party officially labelled the bill "poorly designed, unscientific, unworkable, and harmful to gender-diverse New Zealanders."
The Opportunity Party strongly opposes government-enforced restrictions that bar transgender individuals from using spaces or participating in sports categories that align with their gender identity.
The party maintains a policy platform that firmly supports LGBTQIA+ rights, stating that individuals should have the right to express their identity freely, without government overreach or state-mandated policing of bodies and identities.
Right to Life is concerned that recent polling suggests that The Opportunity Party may be elected to our Parliament with just over 5% of the total party vote. We believe that they could become the “king maker” in deciding the formation of the next government and their election would be a cause of massive disruption in our Parliament, and an acceleration in the war against women and our precious unborn.
Right to Life commends the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, for declaring that under no circumstances will the National Party enter into a coalition agreement with the Opportunity Party.
Right to Life requests the Right Hon. Christopher Hipkins, Leader of the Opposition, to protect women and also make a public commitment that under no circumstances will the Labour Party enter into a coalition agreement with The Opportunity Party.
In response to an election questionnaire from Right to Life, the policy team of the Opportunity Party advised our Society in March 2026 that :-
• The Opportunity Party did not believe that it has a responsibility to provide effective legal protection for the right to life of every New Zealander from conception to natural death.
• The Opportunity Party did not support legal recognition of unborn children from conception as human beings endowed by their Creator with a right to life, it does however support granting personhood status to whales.
The Party supports expansion of the End of Life Choice Act 2019 to allow the law to permit ending the lives of non-terminal patients, mental health patients and minors.
The Opportunity Party states that “its policy is to stand for opportunity for every Kiwi”. Right to Life questions this policy. How can you stand for opportunity for every New Zealander, when you refuse to recognise that human life begins at conception, and that every human being is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation?
Ken Orr,
Spokesperson,
Right to Life New Zealand Inc.
