Right to Life believes that the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon does not deserve our trust!

Media Release 13 March 2026

Right to Life is a voice for our unborn and their mothers, we refuse to be silenced, you ignore us at your peril. Those who refuse to protect the unborn should not be trusted to govern the born.

Right to Life believes emphatically that those who do not believe and uphold the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death do not have a right to sit in our parliament.

The Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, is concerned at his declining popularity as Prime Minister in recent polls. Right to Life believes that one of the reasons for Christopher Luxon’s declining popularity as preferred Prime Minister is because of his refusal to allow any debate in Parliament under any government he would lead regarding our current abortion laws. The current Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is extreme and effectively allows for the murder of the unborn up to birth. He has stated that he will not allow debate on amending it while he is Prime Minister. We have been advised that restriction also applies to the End of Life Choice Act 2019.

Those who govern do so with the permission of the governed. The fundamental requirement of those who seek to govern is that they have the trust of electors that they will protect their lives and the lives of their families. Those who are prepared to kill the unborn should not be permitted to govern the born. Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon has sadly lost that trust because he has allowed the state funded killing of more than 38,000 unborn New Zealanders since he was elected Prime Minister in 2023. Their silent screams for justice echo throughout our nation and are ignored by parliament, many churches, the medical profession and the media.

Right to Life requests that Christopher Luxon becomes the truly pro-life leader whom National and our nation desperately need by seeking the repeal of the Abortion Legislation Act 2020 and legislating for the recognition of the humanity of unborn children endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life.

On his election as leader of the National Party, Christopher Luxon stated, referring to abortion “Absolutely that was settled in the last Parliament and that’s settled law.” The Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is not settled law. There is no such thing as settled law as Parliament is constantly amending law. The only fixed law are the commandments of God including the fifth commandment, “You shall not kill.”

Christopher Luxon, in his maiden speech, applauded William Wilberforce for his tireless work to abolish slavery and to recognise black people as human beings with a right to life. It was an appalling injustice to deny that black people were not human beings and were not bearers of human rights. Wilberforce did not accept laws allowing slavery as settled law. Today it is an appalling injustice for Christopher Luxon to deny that unborn children are not human beings with a right to life until they are born. Every child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of God’s loving creation endowed at conception with an inalienable right to life.

Right to Life believes that Christopher Luxon and the National Party would attract increased support, if they assured the community that they acknowledged that the first duty of those who govern is to uphold the sanctity of life of every human being from conception and to provide effective legislation that will protect our precious unborn children, who are the weakest and most defenceless members of the human family.

Christopher Luxon has stated that abortion is murder. How then can he compromise his conscience by abandoning women and their precious unborn children and declaring that a government under his direction will refuse to stop the genocide against our unborn and the violence against women?

Ken Orr,

Spokesperson,

Right to Life New Zealand Inc.