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I was the fastest girl. But transgender athletes made it unfair
USA Today February 2020 Family First Comment: I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to ...
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Transgender Surgery Does Not Improve Mental Health
PJ Media 11 August 2020 Last year, a groundbreaking study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) claimed to prove that transgender surgery improves the mental ...
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How Does Porn Affect Teenagers?
John Foubert May 2021 Initial studies show that the adolescent brain is more sensitive to sexually explicit material than adult brains (Brown & Wisco, 2019). ...
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Calls for halt on new liquor stores after rising assaults in cities
Radio NZ News 25 May 2021 Family First Comment: How’s that ‘regulation’ and ‘control’ going? Not too good eh. “There’s so much injury that’s happening in ...
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Gaping holes in law covering info for donor-conceived people
Stuff co.nz 25 May 2021 From the mid-1970s through 2004, an unknown number of people were created through anonymous donor conception in New Zealand. In ...
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Any amount of alcohol can harm the brain, study suggests
Fox News 20 May 2021 Family First Comment: “No safe dose of alcohol for the brain was found. Moderate consumption is associated with more widespread adverse ...
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UK – Government digging itself deep into trouble over conversion therapy
Peter Lynas is the Director of the Evangelical Alliance. The Government has got itself into a pickle on conversion therapy. It has promised to end ...
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Canada – politicians fuming over Cannabis Act enforcement gaps
Orillia News 28 April 2021 Family First Comment: Not working so well in Canada, is it. “councillors asked the federal agency to consider amending the rules ...
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Jacinda’s wedding sends an important societal message
Bob McCoskrie – National Director, Family First NZ In January 2018, Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy with boyfriend Clarke Gayford outside their Auckland home to ...
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Bernard Moran: How the “Born Alive” rule stymies legal protection of preborn babies
I guess many people wonder why Parliament cannot pass a law recognising a preborn baby as a unique human person. The “Born Alive” rule stands ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Plummeting Fertility Rate Requires Urgent Debate
Media Release 19 May 2021 New Zealand’s fertility rate has reached an all-time low, with an average of 1.60 births per woman in the year ...
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New Study: Alcohol Ads Commonly Appeal to Minors
Movendi 23 April 2021 Family First Comment: “The association between positive reactions to the adverts and being susceptible to [consume alcohol] among underage adolescents who have ...
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US Supreme Court takes up major challenge to abortion rights
NewsHub 18 May 2021 Family First Comment: Superb! “In the Roe v. Wade decision, subsequently reaffirmed in 1992, the court said that states could not ban ...
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NZ’s dip below population replacement level a chance to discuss priorities — academic
TVNZ One News 18 May 2021 Aotearoa dipping below the so-called population replacement level is a chance for a discussion about what the country’s population ...
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When cancel culture targets even its own on the left
America Has Forgotten How to Forgive The Atlantic 20 March 2021 Family First Comment: “In March, the publisher of Teen Vogue announced that Alexi McCammond, a 27-year-old former reporter ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Calls Build For Ban On Puberty Blockers For Teens
Media Release 11 May 2021 Medical professionals and groups are sounding growing international concern around the use of puberty blockers to treat young people with ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Paper Plus and Mighty Ape Kowtow to Cancel Culture
Media Release 8 May 2021 Family First NZ says that book retailers are kowtowing to gender activists rather than allowing a debate on the best ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Schools Rightly Rejecting Govt’s Sex Ed
Media Release 8 May 2021 Family First says it is not surprised that less than 15% of schools are using Government funded programmes on sexual ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Medicinal Marijuana Regime: Cautious But Compassionate
Media Release 6 May 2021 “Family First NZ supports a cautious and researched approach around medicinal marijuana, but also supports a compassionate response to those ...
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Decriminalising Drugs – Lessons from Portugal (2021)
What lessons can we learn from a report about Portugal’s decriminalisation of drugs.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Official Data Reveals Failure Of Anti-Smacking Law
Media Release 30 April 2021 Family First NZ says that the latest research on smacking in New Zealand has completely ignored the bigger picture of ...
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