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RSE framework – consultation period ending this Friday 24 April
Last chance to give feedback on proposed RSE (Relationships and Sexuality Education) framework. Last year the Ministry of Education developed a draft framework in preparation ...
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Oregon’s assisted suicide prescriptions hit record high in 2025
While New Zealand debates expanding euthanasia, Oregon’s latest Death with Dignity report shows prescriptions for lethal drugs reached a new record of 637 in 2025 ...
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Netherlands hits record 10,341 euthanasia deaths in 2025
The runaway train continues. The Netherlands has released its yearly report on euthanasia, revealing that 10,341 individuals died by euthanasia in 2025 — the highest ...
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What is a Woman? Private Member’s Bill will expose which MPs can define truth and biology
New Zealand First has proposed a Definitions of Woman and Man Amendment Bill, a Private Member’s Bill drawn for debate in April 2026, aimed at ...
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New Finnish research challenges “lifesaving” claim for youth gender treatment
A recent Finnish study found that psychiatric problems tend to worsen rather than improve after the hormonal and surgical interventions offered by gender clinics. In ...
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US Supreme Court rules 8-1 against Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” counseling
In a significant 8-1 ruling earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Colorado cannot use its licensing power to silence licensed counsellors who ...
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SPEAK UP! Easter, Christmas & Anzac Day “Booze Bill”
The attempts continue by our politicians to liberalise our trading laws during four specific public / holy days – three of those four centred around ...
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Abortion pill dominates as US records 1.13 Million abortions in 2025
A new Guttmacher Institute (a reproductive health research organisation) report estimates that about 1.13 million abortions occurred in the United States in 2025, representing an ...
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Alberta government proposes new safeguards for medically assisted dying
In just four years, deaths from assisted suicide/assisted dying in Alberta, Canada, increased by 109 percent. This is the reality Premier Danielle Smith’s government in ...
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UK House of Lords votes for abortion decriminalisation
In a troubling development for abortion law in England and Wales, the House of Lords has rejected amendments aiming to remove or alter Clause 208 ...
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Scottish Parliament chooses life as assisted dying bill falls
On 17 March 2026, the Scottish Parliament rejected the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill at Stage 3, with 69 MSPs voting against, ...
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The gap between cannabis hype and cannabis science just got harder to ignore
Alongside chronic pain, mental health conditions are among the most common reasons people turn to marijuana for medical use. However, a comprehensive review of cannabis ...
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App Store Accountability Bill Proposed To Strengthen Online Safety For Children
Family First is calling on the government, or individual Members of Parliament, to adopt its App Store Accountability Bill, designed to target an obvious ‘choke ...
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U.S. casts lone vote against UN’s gender identity agenda
For the first time in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) 70-year history, the Agreed Conclusions were not adopted by consensus. ...
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Age verification for online adult content comes into force in Australia
At Family First, we have long warned that the digital Wild West has exposed children to objectionable material that no responsible parent would allow in ...
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New Zealand is paying more to end lives than care for them
A frontline New Zealand GP has exposed a troubling financial incentive at the heart of our end-of-life system — assisted dying pays up to six ...
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US medical organisations hidden trans agenda finally exposed
Summarising a recent Daily Citizen article by Glenn T. Stanton titled: “The New York Times’ and 20 State AGs Expose Medical Groups’ Trans Agenda A ...
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EU’s backdoor move redirects social funds toward abortion access
The European Commission has declined to establish a new dedicated EU-wide funding mechanism for abortion access, as requested by the “My Voice, My Choice” European ...
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As countries pull back on puberty blockers, New Zealand remains passive
Commentary by ‘Ala Pomelile Across the Western world, governments are starting to face an uncomfortable reality: the medicalisation of childhood gender distress has advanced much ...
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France pushes to open the door to euthanasia
Yesterday, the French National Assembly voted on passing a bill legalising assisted dying. This marks the next phase in a year-long debate on euthanasia and assisted dying. ...
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