Media Release
Conscience or Tyranny
Right to Life applauds a group of courageous pro – life doctors challenging the Medical Council’s provisions relating to abortion included in its draft document titled, ” Beliefs and Medical Practice” The pro – life doctors have filed an application with the High Court in Wellington for a judicial review of the [...]

Right to Life supports the march to Parliament today 12 February, organised by Pro Life New Zealand to oppose Family Planning being granted a licence to kill unborn children. The Association proposes to provide medical abortions with the lethal murder pill, Mifegyne RU 486 for babies in their first nine weeks of life at [...]

Family Planning is conducting a campaign to have the condom accepted as a “Kiwi rubber essential.” “The focus of the campaign is designed to get New Zealanders talking about condoms and safer sex.”
It is commendable that Family Planning is seeking to reduce New Zealand’s high teenage pregnancy and STI rate. It is disappointing [...]

The New Zealand Family Planning Association on 8 December issued a statement in defence of the use of the lethal drug, Mifegyne, RU 486 for the killing of unborn children in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy. The Association claims that medical abortions are safe. Mifegyne is a murder pill, it is highly effective [...]

The New Zealand Family Planning Association on 8 December issued a statement in defence of the use of the lethal drug, Mifegyne, RU 486 for the killing of unborn children in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy. The Association, an ardent advocate for a culture of death sought to refute recent press releases of [...]

11 December 2009
Media Release

Abortion Supervisory Committee Report 2008
The Abortion Supervisory Committee’s [ASC] report was tabled in Parliament on 8th December. The Committee reported 17,940 abortions in New Zealand 2008.
This is a reduction of 440 on the 2007 year figure of 18,380. While encouraging, Right to Life reminds New Zealanders that each life is unique [...]

Right to Life is disappointed that Telecom New Zealand has been supporting a culture of death by making annual grants to the New Zealand Family Planning Association of $50,000 for 2006 and 2007.
Right to Life is totally opposed to grants being made to this controversial Association. We know that the Family Planning Association is [...]

Right to Life fully supports the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women and girls is an international problem of pandemic proportions. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime and it as always unacceptable.
The Police in New Zealand receive 70,000 [...]

The screening of unborn babies for Down syndrome with a new national screening programme is further manifestation of a culture of death. It is a search and destroy programme that has as its sole objective the termination of the lives of unborn children.
Human life begins at conception and at that point the newly [...]

The Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand, 2nd November, continues its propaganda in support of the Family Planning Association’s [NZFPA] application to kill unborn children at its Hamilton clinic.
It is always wrong to kill the innocent. ALRANZ promotes a culture of death under the guise of offering women “a service.” This is an [...]

Right to Life New Zealand fully supports the courageous citizens of the Waikato who are expressing their opposition to the Family Planning Association seeking a licence to kill innocent and defenceless unborn children in its Hamilton clinic. Family Planning should be recognised as the strident voice in New Zealand for a culture of death. [...]

The public are entitled to be provided with truthful information about the killing of unborn children. Dame Margaret Sparrow the spokesperson for ALRANZ in her media release of the 9th October stated that “having a medical abortion is 10 times safer than giving birth.” This is a falsehood, safe for whom? It [...]

Right to Life is opposed to the New Zealand Family Planning Association’s application to the Abortion Supervisory Committee [ASC] for a licence to terminate the lives of unborn children at its Hamilton Clinic. The ASC advised Right to Life under the Official Information Act that the Association had made a request for a licence [...]

Australian and New Zealand Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Right to Life New Zealand is disappointed that the Australian and New Zealand Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are at the forefront in seeking to have the killing of unborn children decriminalised in Queensland. The College is promoting a culture of death. Citizens [...]

Right to Life has been advised that the Abortion Supervisory Committee on the 20th August filed an appeal with the Court of Appeal against several important findings of the judgment of the High Court. In effect it has renewed the appeal that was brought earlier and which the Court of Appeal did not allow [...]

The Abortion Law Reform Association, [ALRANZ] on 16 June issued a media release in response to the release by Statistics New Zealand of the abortion statistics for 2008. Dr Margaret Sparrow, President of ALRANZ stated:

“We would like to see the abortion law reflecting what happens. We totally agree with the anti-abortion [...]

There were 17,940 abortions reported in New Zealand in 2008.Right to Life New Zealand is pleased with the reduction of 440 abortions on the 18,380 abortions performed in New Zealand in 2007. This is good news for our unborn children and their mothers. We believe that one of the reasons for the decrease is [...]

Right to Life joins with the international pro-life movement in condemning as an unspeakable and evil act the murder of late term abortionist George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas. He was murdered on Sunday, 31 May in the Reformist Lutheran church in Wichita.
The international pro-life movement is opposed to violence. It is opposed to violence [...]

The Abortion Supervisory Committee [ASC] has disclosed that the members of a recently established Abortion Standards Committee have resigned. The purpose of the Committee was to advise the ASC on recommendations for the performance of abortions in New Zealand; they were an important constituent of the abortion industry and were thus promoters of a [...]

The High Court in Wellington has advised that a hearing has been set down for Monday, 20 July 2009 before Justice Miller. Right to Life will seek at this hearing to have Justice Miller issue clear declarations to the Abortion Supervisory Committee [ASC] setting out the statutory powers and duties of the ASC. These [...]

The full Court of Appeal on Tuesday 12 May 2009, dismissed the appeal of the Abortion Supervisory Committee (ASC) against several matters in the judgment of Justice Miller given in the High Court in June last year. The Court ruled that as the High Court had not made declaratory orders, the appeal was outside [...]

The Health Commissioner has recently made an important and historic decision that women considering an abortion when undergoing an ultra sound scan have a right to be offered the opportunity to view a scan of their baby in the womb.
This decision of the Health Commissioner, Ron Paterson, was made in response to a complaint [...]

The recent report to the United Nations from civil rights lawyer’s states that our legislation allows for significant human rights failings, the report ignores unborn children. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states that our human rights are inalienable and universal. Being inalienable they cannot be taken from us and being universal they [...]

  The Act reads; “…abortions may be authorised only after full regard to the rights of unborn children”   SO WHY?
Statistics released by the Abortion Supervisory Committee, under the Official Information Act indicate that we continue to have abortion on demand. There were 18,382 abortions notified in 2007. There is approximately one abortion for every [...]

Right to Life is opposed to Family Planning being granted a licence to terminate the lives of unborn children. The Association’s pursuit of a licence to kill unborn children is bad news for the unborn and bad news for women. The Association is promoting a culture of death. it should be seen as a [...]