familyfirst.org.nz The Law Commission is currently reviewing surrogacy laws in New Zealand and Family First has just sent in a submission. You can read it in full here. To clarify, here is how The Law Commission defines Surrogacy: Surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman (the surrogate) agrees
This Government is step by step leading desperate business owners down a pre-determined path that will end with our society being divided into the vaxxed and the un-vaxxed. The un-vaxxed will be treated as second class citizens, stripped of many of their basic human rights. Unvaccinated customers could be barred
Andy Mullins mercatornet.com Dr Andy Mullins now works with parents and university students in Melbourne and teaches the Formation of Character course at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney. Formerly he was headmaster of Redfield and Wollemi Colleges in Sydney. He is the author of Parenting for Character.
Graham Hryce rt.com Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant. Information Op-Ed Parents were once thought to know what’s best for their children. That now
familyfirst.org.nz Watch the head of the Pediatric Society Dr Andrew Marshall confirm, under questioning from Simon Bridges MP, that yes – 12 year olds are being given puberty blockers by some doctors. (Fortunately many doctors don’t – and kiwi parents should find these doctors rather than be referred to
David Seymour ACT Leader Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson’s excuse that a man with COVID-19 crossing the border to the Waikato was “a decision for the courts” simply doesn’t wash. Most of us thought if you crossed the border illegally, you’d get arrested. Who knew that if
familyfirst.org.nz Bruce Logan expertly articulates many of the inherent problems with the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill. He says the bill “is fraught with internal contradiction. It claims to be guarding the autonomy of homosexual and transgender people, but in doing so it actually denies the autonomy of
Chris Sweeney rt.com Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines. Brian Tingley is taking on the state of Washington for the right to continue counselling young people concerned
Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is calling for the couple – one reportedly a child of a Government official – who breached lockdown not to have name suppression says Free Speech Union spokesperson, and lawyer, Stephen Franks. “Name suppression will be the worst move for the Auckland couple charged with
Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com A lot of people are saying that Roe v. Wade is “finished” now that the Supreme Court has refused to block a new Texas abortion law from going into effect. This new law bans abortions once the heartbeat of the baby can be detected, and that
Debra Wilson Annick Masselot Martha Ceballos University of Canterbury Children born through surrogacy are much wanted and much loved. Under the current law, however, they can spend at least their first months of life in a kind of legal limbo. This is because of the way several separate pieces of
Earlier in the week, we had an article about a video sent to us here at The BFD that showed an interaction with a police officer and a young couple who had just returned to a vehicle after shopping at the Silverdale Pak-n-Save. The original post is here, and a
With more submissions by a massive margin than received for any other piece of law in Parliament’s history, it’s clear more time is needed to consider the Conversion Practices Bill than Labour is currently allowing, National’s Justice spokesperson Simon Bridges says. “Despite the shortened process Labour has
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to a Texas law which bans abortions after a foetal heartbeat is detected. This has effectively closed abortion clinics in Texas, as a heartbeat can be detected at about
James Jin Kang Jumana Abu-Khalaf Edith Cowan University Dr James Kang is currently teaching computing and security in Edith Cowan University after having worked in telecommuncaitions industry for more than 20 years. He recently visited Africa to work for NGOs as a volunteer IT advisor sponsored by the Australian government
familyfirst.org.nz I do not normally voice personal opinions on social media but I cannot stay quiet when our government is steadily making decisions that remove my rights to raise my children as I believe is right. I will not stand by and have other people who have no
