First - and foremost - good one, 'whoever it concerns' (as in, was involved in the decision), in the recommendation (I suppose from the Select Committee itself) to 'return' David Seymour's legalization of euthanasia bill to the House for its second reading...presumably today, being Wednesday here...
Only recommending it for terminal illnesses...thus avoiding the 'slippery slope' that's been only all to evident in overseas jurisdictions, especially certain Scandinavian 'Low Countries'(?) such as the Netherlands and Belgium...and, I believe, also various states in the U S now...such as 'my own' beloved Oregon...
...and subject to approval by a nationwide referendum...-yet another reason I intend to vote for NZ First next time round; at last, now wishing I had in two at least of the previous three general elections in NZ - specifically 2011, when they were trying to re-enter Parliament after a three-year hiatus (and previous 'conspiracy' to get them out - and keep 'em so - by then PM John Key & Co), and last time round, following which they not only went with the centre left, but Winston admirably acquitted himself when explaining the essential reasons thereof...
I can only say a hearty "Amen!" - though I don't approve of/agree with euthanasia at all - whilst fully 'getting' the nationwide (and even 'global' - as in 'first world' Western nations) increasing support thereabouts of recent times, seeing it as a rare sort of 'moral issue' that, for all sorts of reasons, I've not only much 'understanding' for those who take the opposite position to myself, but see it as a matter in which such differing views seem eminently reasonable in many ways...
Perhaps 'one little reason' that NZ's 'non-partisan' mainstream TV stations both, yesterday evening, decided, inexplicably, though it was hardly a 'busy' news day, to relegate this then breaking news - which had been leading both major (leftwing and centre right) radio stations throughout the later afternoon...to almost halfway though the first segment (indeed pretty well the exact selfsame time on both, as I flicked back between them both)...
...and barely mentioning the protest outside Parliament yesterday...featuring a bunch of 'pale, stale males' (as you'd gather today, from RNZ National's citing of 'religious groups and the medical fraternity' as the major opponents of liberalization of the existent laws)? Not at all: it was staged by a group of earnest as Pasifika women...
So perhaps Mr Seymour won't have quite the easy run he might rightly have anticipated following the handy margin of victory (72 to 48 some, I believe) his bill achieved in its initial reading...
...this punter certainly hopes so, that's for sure!
Only recommending it for terminal illnesses...thus avoiding the 'slippery slope' that's been only all to evident in overseas jurisdictions, especially certain Scandinavian 'Low Countries'(?) such as the Netherlands and Belgium...and, I believe, also various states in the U S now...such as 'my own' beloved Oregon...
...and subject to approval by a nationwide referendum...-yet another reason I intend to vote for NZ First next time round; at last, now wishing I had in two at least of the previous three general elections in NZ - specifically 2011, when they were trying to re-enter Parliament after a three-year hiatus (and previous 'conspiracy' to get them out - and keep 'em so - by then PM John Key & Co), and last time round, following which they not only went with the centre left, but Winston admirably acquitted himself when explaining the essential reasons thereof...
I can only say a hearty "Amen!" - though I don't approve of/agree with euthanasia at all - whilst fully 'getting' the nationwide (and even 'global' - as in 'first world' Western nations) increasing support thereabouts of recent times, seeing it as a rare sort of 'moral issue' that, for all sorts of reasons, I've not only much 'understanding' for those who take the opposite position to myself, but see it as a matter in which such differing views seem eminently reasonable in many ways...
Perhaps 'one little reason' that NZ's 'non-partisan' mainstream TV stations both, yesterday evening, decided, inexplicably, though it was hardly a 'busy' news day, to relegate this then breaking news - which had been leading both major (leftwing and centre right) radio stations throughout the later afternoon...to almost halfway though the first segment (indeed pretty well the exact selfsame time on both, as I flicked back between them both)...
...and barely mentioning the protest outside Parliament yesterday...featuring a bunch of 'pale, stale males' (as you'd gather today, from RNZ National's citing of 'religious groups and the medical fraternity' as the major opponents of liberalization of the existent laws)? Not at all: it was staged by a group of earnest as Pasifika women...
So perhaps Mr Seymour won't have quite the easy run he might rightly have anticipated following the handy margin of victory (72 to 48 some, I believe) his bill achieved in its initial reading...
...this punter certainly hopes so, that's for sure!
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