With Andrew Little’s drive to create a separate health system for Maori, I thought it would be interesting to see how ethnicity is defined.
Its clear in section 2.1 that one’s ethnicity is self-determined, and also your ethnicity can change over time!
People will be able to self identify as Maori if they wish to access the separate Maori Health provider.
Sorry, potheads, you can get high, but you’re not getting any better pain relief than the placebo.
Those directing global health policy now have corporate bottom lines to consider, and have proven they can pull any sort of Medieval trick out of the bag to achieve it.
The most revolutionary step our nation could take – for its farmland and its health – would be to increase the number of farmer-caretakers. We need more people growing our food, not fewer.
If we admit that aborting a girl because she is a girl is wrong, we are admitting that the motive matters. And if the motive matters, we acknowledge that the unborn child has inherent value that exists independently of the mother’s choice.
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The word for today is… dilemma (noun) - 1a: a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice b: a situation involving such a choice, broadly : predicament 2a: a problem involving a difficult choice b: a difficult or persistent problem 3: an argument presenting two or more equally conclusive alternatives against an opponent
