NZ pro-life campaigner goes to police over YouTube video

The Christchurch Press website is running a story today about the threatening and obscene YouTube video that targets Ken Orr from Right to Life with some pretty foul abuse.
The NZ Catholic newspaper broke the story a week or so back.
A big thumbs up to the Canterbury University student who has posted a positive YouTube video [...]

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Celebrating female slavery

You know your country is in trouble when your government holds a special day long event to celebrate the decriminalization of prostitution in your country.
It’s sounds like the stuff of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, but sadly it actually happened last week in NZ.
I wonder how many of the women who are now legally degraded [...]

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He’s got to be joking, right?

The following quote comes from an article in Saturday’s NZ Herald about the practice of destroying human persons in their embryo stage of development based on their sex, or on genetic precursors which may lead to an increased chance they have a certain kind of disease:
“[Professor Mark Henaghan, dean of faculty law Otago University and [...]

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To shoot or not to shoot, continued

Following on from my earlier post, the dialog continues:
Here’s another question: if a fetus is a person, is that person’s right to life more important than a woman’s right to control over her own body?

Yep. She has a right to control her own body, but not to dismember, crush or otherwise destroy the body [...]

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To shoot or not to shoot?

Yesterday I posted a comment I made in response to a New Zealand Herald article on the abortion debate. At least one pro-abortion person responded to it directly:
Dean, your hunter analogy is flawed. If the hunter doesn’t shoot nothing bad will happen. If a woman isn’t allowed to have an abortion that’s going to [...]

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This is one doctor that you don’t want making house calls!

Wednesday’s news that our Chief Censor has rejected an appeal from NZ groups to have an Dr. Nitschke’s suicide guide, the Peaceful Pill Handbook, banned in New Zealand demonstrates just how out of touch with basic standards our censor’s office has become.
It’s not really rocket science – allowing people to purchase a book which promotes [...]

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John Key missses the point

I see that the Christchurch Press has quoted John Key as stating that if the National party wins the election later this year he will not be repealing the anti-smacking law.
When asked whether National would revoke the anti-smacking law, his exact words were:
“No. The position as it has essentially always been since we signed a [...]

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The ONLY issue in the abortion debate?

A recent NZ Herald story about whether current medical consultancy procedure leads to abortions on request resulted in a flurry of comments (17 pages the last time I checked). Many of those comments are expressions of opinion rather than well-developed arguments (but then, a 1200 character post limit doesn’t lend itself well to substantial [...]

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Are scientists losing touch with their humanity?

Comments in today’s NZ Herald from Lord Robert Winston show just how out of touch with true humanity and sound morality and ethics many scientists and academics have actually become.
“Throughout history there’s been concoctions and decoctions and potions supposed to influence the sex at conception. It argues they didn’t see a moral objection to it. [...]

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