TWO LETTERS TO THE DOMPOST ON  THE SAME DAY (AUGUST 29).

 

FIRST, NURSES KILLING HALF THEIR PATIENTS:

 

How many of the 2500 extra nurses or midwives provided to DHBs who could be on the wards bathing and moving their bedridden patients, or reinserting lines, are actually employed in their abortion clinics, killing half their patients? Maybe the DHBs consider these dead patients to be a savings in ‘care rationing’.   

Julia du Fresne

 

SECOND, COLUMNIST VERNON SMALL’S NAIVETY:

 

I’m afraid that in claiming a more tolerant society is evidenced by the gay marriage law, Vernon Small’s naivety is showing. There was no clear public mandate for it. The bill was rammed through Parliament; the Select Committee treated objectors, particularly one 18 year-old woman who felt ‘humiliated and menaced’, with disrespect; thousands of unique objections were dismissed as form letters; a majority of submissions were opposed to it. One might call the gay marriage law a law of the jungle.

Julia du Fresne