well as criticisms of New Zealand abortion law twenty years after passage of the Contraception Sterilisation and Abortion Act in its final form in 1978, as well as an account of abortion policy in the Netherlands in 2001. Party Affiliation Although Mrs Pryor began her political career as a conservative New Zealand Labour Party supporter, due to the anti-abortion views of the late Prime Minister Norman Kirk in the early seventies, she resigned when his successor, Bill Rowling, stated that he would hold a referendum on the abortion issue if Labour won the 1978 New Zealand General Election, which it did not. She subsequently joined the New Zealand National Party instead, and lost nomination for its Kapiti electorate to Roger Sowry in 1987, who later served as a Cabinet Minister under the administrations of Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley in the nineties. Although her Māori affiliation with her iwi was not strong, she did serve on National's Māori Council, and convinced Jim Bolger to make stronger commitment to Māori issues related to the legal status of the Treaty of Waitangi. Catholic Administrative and Pastoral Roles In the nineties, Mrs Pryor increasingly turned her attention to Catholic church administrative responsibilities. She was made a Papal Dame of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great in 1996, and helped to establish an administrative pastoral office for Cardinal Thomas Stafford Williams in Wellington, at the same time that she continued her anti-abortion activities. Death In 2004, Mrs Pryor contracted motor neurone disease, which swiftly took hold. She died on 15 March 2005, aged 68, at her home in Paremata. She was buried three days later in Whenua Tapu Cemetery in Pukerua Bay, Porirua with her husband who had died three years later. She is survived by three of her four children. Today her book The Right to Live forms much of the historical content of a New Zealand anti-abortion information website, run by the New Zealand Life Charitable Trust. Bibliography Marilyn Pryor: The Right to Live: The Abortion Battle of New Zealand: Auckland: Haelen Books: 1985: Marilyn Pryor (ed): Beyond Price: Collected Thoughts on Respect for the Value of Human Life: Wellington: SPUC: 1979. Marilyn Pryor: The Radical Feminist Agenda is Overturned: Auckland: Women for Life: 1984. Marilyn Pryor: A Funny Thing Happened- An Alternative Report on the 1984 Women's Forums: Paramata: M.Pryor: 1985. Marilyn Pryor: Your Slip is Showing: A