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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-608/
- Published: 2022-06-28T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-28T02:56:33.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 23:04

> National MP Simon O’Connor says he stands by his view the US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade was “a good day” but removed his social media post because the response to it had got out of control.  
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> \[…\] O’Connor said he had discussed it with Luxon and agreed it should be removed after looking at some of the comments on it.  
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> “The comments were just spiralling. It was getting worse and worse and it was very clear to me that people were distressed and it was important to pull that back.”  
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> He said he was “pro-life” and still believed the Supreme Court decision was a good day.  
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> “I’m a pro-lifer, so yes.”  
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> \[…\] He did not feel he had been gagged by Luxon.  
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> “Not at all. \[…\]

 Let me be absolutely clear, I have not been gagged.
  
  
“I’m a great advocate for free speech, but all rights have limits and in this case the nature of the comments, the hurt and the distress, I thought actually this has to stop and I can’t be facilitating it.”  
  
NewstalkZB

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