I don’t see why there should be a furore over Paula Bennett implying that
gang members have fewer rights than other people. She proved herself to be more in touch with reality than The Dominion Post (September 5), or ‘human rights’
lawyer Michael Bott, who are woefully behind the times.
Because the fact is we launched ourselves headlong down the ‘slippery slope to fascism’ in 1977, on the day we legalised
abortion. Even though our Bill of Rights enshrines the right not to be deprived of life, we legally deprive around twelve thousand unborn citizens of their right to life every year.
That’s why a Government minister can now make the suggestion Bennett did,
and why the media claim that most New Zealanders now think euthanasia is a great
idea, and why some want to remove all legislation around abortion, to allow partial birth abortions and the practice of leaving live aborted babies to die, as they do in
Victoria.
I do wish people could be consistent, and acknowledge that unborn babies –
who are undeniably human - have the same human rights as gang members and the
rest of us do.
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