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Calls for elimination of biological sex on passports
Here’s an extract from an article published by The Daily Signal: “Designating sex on birth certificates as male or female, and making that information available ...
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Cannabis causes painful sickening illness
Watch this video and read the article, published by Parents Opposed to Pot … Now that cannabis is legal in many States, emergency rooms around ...
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Ireland – Bill to ban conversion therapy poses problems for therapists
The Irish Times 9 August 2021 Family First Comment: Asking the right questions: “Gender dysphoria may have many underlying causes not necessarily related to being transgender. ...
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PM admits parents may face charges under conversion therapy’ bill
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern doesn’t rule out parents facing charges under conversion therapy ban NewsHub 9 August 2021 Family First Comment: “National stood alone last week ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Yes, parents can be prosecuted – PM
Media Release 10 August 2021 Family First NZ says that despite continuous attempts by the supporters of the proposed ‘conversion therapy’ ban to suppress the ...
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The media’s distortion of public debate – revealed
This is a disturbing example of how the media does their question line on issues that they ‘should’ be independent on, but are anything but. ...
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Increase in cannabis consumption likely if decriminalised in Australia says new study
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre 26 July 2021 Family First Comment: No surprise eh “A new Australian study has found that an estimated 4.2% ...
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Harvard Law pushes “polyamory and the law”
Harvard Law Today 3 August 2021 Family First Comment: As predicted…. Here it comes: “Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, also known as PLAC, was established in the ...
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Teen pregnancy rate halves in 20 years
Changing age of motherhood: Teen pregnancy rate halves in 20 years, as more women give birth in their 40s Stuff co.nz 9 August 2021 Family ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Obviously we want to criminalise parents – Bill advocate
Media Release 7 August 2021 Family First NZ says that despite claims of some politicians in Parliament on Thursday, the proposed ‘conversion therapy’ ban will ...
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Is sharp drop in marriages in 2020 due to COVID?
COVID-19 likely cause of sharp drop in marriages in 2020 Stats NZ 5 August 2021 Family First Comment: We won’t truly know until this time next ...
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Records of her sperm-donor father didn’t exist. How one woman tracked down her ‘enormous’ family
NZ Herald 1 August 2021 A Washington law professor has packed up her family and moved back to New Zealand to connect with her biological ...
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French court rules transgender woman cannot be recognised as child’s mother
France24 16 September 2020 Family First Comment: It all gets rather confusing, doesn’t it. The consequence of dismissing biology. “Born male, the applicant was recognised as ...
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GPs face legal risks over hormones for teens
The Australian 5 August 2021 Family First Comment: According to University of Queensland legal academic Patrick Parkinson and senior psychiatrist Philip Morris… “In no circumstances should ...
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Policy shift in Finland for gender dysphoria treatment
MercatorNet 27 July 2021 The international activist group SEGM, the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, has published a review of a radical shift in the standards of care ...
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Cannabis a factor in young man’s fatal car crash – coroner
Stuff co.nz 4 August 2021 Family First Comment: Very sad case “Cannabis had taken hold in the last 18 months of his son’s life, and “destroyed ...
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ACT, National warn of conversion therapy bill ‘risk’
Radio NZ News 3 August 2021 ACT leader David Seymour is betting his party will not continue to support the government’s bill banning conversion therapy, ...
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Assisted dying services to be ‘limited’
Assisted dying services to be ‘limited’ when legalised, legal action expected Stuff co.nz 3 August 2021 Family First Comment: Good. People can live without it. ...
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Kris Faafoi still won’t answer a simple question about banning ‘conversion therapy’
Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi had the whole weekend to rethink his response, after his trainwreck interview on Friday on Newstalk ZB about criminalising parents ...
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