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Our Body, the Govt’s Choice 

Our Body, the Govt’s Choice 

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com For a full and detailed assessment of the court case, see this post. The full judgement can be found here. A Short Review of the Court Case New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) and New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out

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Medical Cannabis Still Out of Reach

Fiona Hutton Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Fiona Hutton has been teaching and researching in the area of alcohol and other drugs, drug policy and harm reduction for over 20 years Access to cannabis-based products for medical reasons is technically legal in New Zealand. But changes to the

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Poland’s Strong Pro-Life Law Causes Progressive Melt Down
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Poland’s Strong Pro-Life Law Causes Progressive Melt Down

Julia Conley commondreams.org Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams. A new government database tracking people’s pregnancies in Poland is sparking fears that medical data will be used to prosecute women who obtain abortion care in other countries or by getting abortion pills through the mail,

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Women Have Penises and Bees Are Fish

Women Have Penises and Bees Are Fish

Should we be surprised at anything that comes out of Democrat-run America, any more? Pizzas are a vegetable, women have penises… and bees are fish. Yes, you read that right: bees are now legally considered fish in California. Where else, but California? The head-scratching decision by the California Court of

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Says the Woman Protected by Armed Bodyguards

Jacinda Ardern has shown just how out of touch she is with the voting public by telling off the victims of increased crime resulting from Labour’s soft on crime policies. She has even lectured them about how they shouldn’t be thinking of arming themselves to protect themselves from

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Surrogacy Cannot Be in the Best Interests of the Child
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Surrogacy Cannot Be in the Best Interests of the Child

familyfirst.org.nz The Law Commission has just released its review of surrogacy laws in New Zealand – and a private members bill by Labour MP Tamati Coffey to make surrogacy easier is currently before a select committee. To clarify, here is how The Law Commission defines Surrogacy: Surrogacy is an

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A ‘Right’ With No Constitutional Foundation

A ‘Right’ With No Constitutional Foundation

Helen M. Alvaré mercatornet.com Helen M. Alvaré Helen Alvaré is the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches and writes in the areas of family law, and law and religion. Today, nearly 50

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A Helpless People, Weary and Traumatised

Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. Warning Long read: 1566 words When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full-spectrum dominance”

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Why is the Govt Repealing the Three Strikes Law?
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Why is the Govt Repealing the Three Strikes Law?

familyfirst.org.nz Sadly the Ardern government is going to repeal the Three Strikes law. So here’s a current story that illustrates the benefit of the Three Strikes law, and why the government’s intention to overturn it will only make New Zealand much less safe… Recidivist violent offender

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A Win for Victims of False Accusations

A Win for Victims of False Accusations

As you will likely know, Johnny Depp won his lawsuit against Amber Heard. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media have found a way to somehow turn this into a massive defeat for women everywhere. And now, after seven weeks and dozens of witnesses, the jury in the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard

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Johnny Depp Trial: Loss for #MeToo, but Win for Justice
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Johnny Depp Trial: Loss for #MeToo, but Win for Justice

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary and a young

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More Gang Members on the Street

As gang crime escalates and the gang war in Auckland sees almost a shooting a day, we can wonder no more as to why this is happening. It is Labour’s soft on crime law and order policies which have seen the number of hardened gang members in prison drop

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Media Update from The ‘Hood

Media Update from The ‘Hood

The Hood The ‘Hood’s directors Sereca Friend and Nicola Culver recently held an eye-opening webinar for an exclusive group on May 26th 2022.  The directors interviewed members of the legal team, barristers David Jones QC and  Tom Molloy, along with legal case manager Katie Ashby-Koppens. Special guest Dr Matt

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A Good Analogy for Gun Rights Is Possessing a Library Card

Information Opinion Chris Trotter has done it again – *sigh* – just when I thought he was making a whole lot of sense he drops a clanger of an article that makes me shake my head. In his latest contribution on The BFD he states: “… It certainly was not a guarantee of

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