A study was made in 2009 into the delays experienced by women seeking an abortion. The study was conducted at 9 abortion facilities and included 2150 women. The study was conducted by Dr Martha Silva and two associates from the University of Auckland. The study found that the average delay  from the time of referral [...]

The Minister of Justice  has announced that Dr Rosemary Fenwicke is not seeking reappointment to the Abortion Supervisory Committee. She was appointed to the Committee for a term of three years by the Governor General on the recommendation of Parliament made on the 14 June 2007.  Her nomination by the previous government was highly controversial. [...]

Right to Life New Zealand is totally opposed to the proposal of the Hon Steve Chadwick MP to introduce a private members Bill to decriminalize abortion in New Zealand. · If the Bill were passed, it would no longer be a crime to kill an unborn child. · The Bill denies that the unborn child [...]

Abortion Statistics 2009 There were 17,550 abortions reported in New Zealand 2009. The statistics were released today by Statistics New Zealand. Right to Life New Zealand is pleased with the reduction of 390 abortions on the 17,940 abortions performed in New Zealand in 2008 which continues the downward trend over the previous two years. This [...]

Right to Life calls upon the Minister of Justice to withdraw the name of Dr Rosemary Fenwicke from re appointment to the Abortion Supervisory Committee on the grounds that she represents a serious and substantial conflict of interest. The Committee is made up of three persons, Professor Dame Linda Holloway, chair, Dr Rosemary Fenwicke and [...]

  New Zealand could become the first “No Kill Nation” says United States animal rights advocate. Bob Kerridge, the National President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [SPCA] stated in a recent media release, “Saving lives has always been a crucial aspect of their work. However we are now planning to [...]

 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 [...]

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 its [...]

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 that [...]

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 and [...]

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 Right [...]

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 [...]

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 family [...]

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 conceived [...]

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. Family [...]

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 is certainly not [...]

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 for [...]

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 in [...]

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 to [...]

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 groups who say [...]

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 the [...]

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 culture [...]