...and not for the better...
Yes, the abortion law change (in terms of technical criteria of jurisprudence overseeing such an 'operation') is now well underway, with a well nigh 4:1 majority presently supporting a first reading (of said 'reform' legislation). And the parliamentary debate was quite 'respectable', even unusually polite and civil for such a highly-charged matter of longstanding contention throughout the land...
...as indeed throughout most Western jurisdictions for a considerable time...
While America is now moving, slowly but surely, to pretty well repeal its in/famous 'Roe vs Wade' Supreme Court judgment back in '73...not via the long-proposed federal law change amending the Constitution (to revoke that especially contentious piece of precedent-setting legal decision-making)...an earnest but ultimately unrealized intention, as close and careful observers of the US political scene have long since realized, that was betrayed in no uncertain terms by abortion opponents' most supportive presidential standard-bearers, i.e. Ronald Reagan and George W Bush...
...who both promised - or, at least, were believed to have (if only implicitly to their most diehard supporters) such an amendment to the U S Constitution...
...little 'ole Aotearoa-New Zealand is now moving in a different, in the decidedly opposite direction...following a commitment then PM-elect Jacinda Ardern gave her own staunchest of supporters in the TV debates just prior to Election 2017...
But, as most commentators who've really given the matter any real thought and reflection have realized, this proposed law change - to effectively remove abortion from the status of a crime - which looks likely to pass (its ultimate third reading) in a veritable canter, NZ First's proposed referendum 'S.O.P.' amendment notwithstanding - may well prove not to significantly or appreciably change 'conditions on the ground'...i.e. the actual number of abortions performed in what was once known as 'God's Own' nation...
But one thing it most certainly does do, and that in no uncertain terms: it reveals where our collective 'heart' as NZers actually is these days, i.e. in active opposition, nay rebellion to the 'God of Nations' to whom our national anthem is dedicated...
...effectively giving 'Gaia's Great Gentleman' in the sky the real heave-ho, telling Him in so many (unspoken) words to pretty much "Sod off!" (to put it as politely and euphemistically as possible).
To basically "P... off!" and get out of our lives and not even bother looking back over His shoulder to see how we're doin'...
Unfortunately, regrettably - for 'Godzoners' - the Great One in the Heavens is way too much of a true gentleman not to respect our (heartfelt) wishes...
...and so I've little doubt that He will indeed back off - bigtime - on the back (pun entirely unintended, believe me) of this latest in a succession/series of ever-escalating moral misjudgments this nation has made over (pretty much precisely) the past two decades...
...leaving us to the consequences of the shortsighted decisions and ungodly choices we've made.
But beware of what you wish for, folks...they have an uncanny habit of eventually coming to pass...and believe you me, when you turn from the Only One in Whom there is either temporal help or eternal salvation...you have effectively given yourselves and your futures into the hands of one who with great glee will take advantage of your wilful ignorance and self-imposed blindness...
...and last I heard, folks, he's taking no prisoners, except down into the Lake of Fire where he is going in the reasonably foreseeable...
But as my ole Dad used to say, "you pays your money and you takes your choice."
Yes, the abortion law change (in terms of technical criteria of jurisprudence overseeing such an 'operation') is now well underway, with a well nigh 4:1 majority presently supporting a first reading (of said 'reform' legislation). And the parliamentary debate was quite 'respectable', even unusually polite and civil for such a highly-charged matter of longstanding contention throughout the land...
...as indeed throughout most Western jurisdictions for a considerable time...
While America is now moving, slowly but surely, to pretty well repeal its in/famous 'Roe vs Wade' Supreme Court judgment back in '73...not via the long-proposed federal law change amending the Constitution (to revoke that especially contentious piece of precedent-setting legal decision-making)...an earnest but ultimately unrealized intention, as close and careful observers of the US political scene have long since realized, that was betrayed in no uncertain terms by abortion opponents' most supportive presidential standard-bearers, i.e. Ronald Reagan and George W Bush...
...who both promised - or, at least, were believed to have (if only implicitly to their most diehard supporters) such an amendment to the U S Constitution...
...little 'ole Aotearoa-New Zealand is now moving in a different, in the decidedly opposite direction...following a commitment then PM-elect Jacinda Ardern gave her own staunchest of supporters in the TV debates just prior to Election 2017...
But, as most commentators who've really given the matter any real thought and reflection have realized, this proposed law change - to effectively remove abortion from the status of a crime - which looks likely to pass (its ultimate third reading) in a veritable canter, NZ First's proposed referendum 'S.O.P.' amendment notwithstanding - may well prove not to significantly or appreciably change 'conditions on the ground'...i.e. the actual number of abortions performed in what was once known as 'God's Own' nation...
But one thing it most certainly does do, and that in no uncertain terms: it reveals where our collective 'heart' as NZers actually is these days, i.e. in active opposition, nay rebellion to the 'God of Nations' to whom our national anthem is dedicated...
...effectively giving 'Gaia's Great Gentleman' in the sky the real heave-ho, telling Him in so many (unspoken) words to pretty much "Sod off!" (to put it as politely and euphemistically as possible).
To basically "P... off!" and get out of our lives and not even bother looking back over His shoulder to see how we're doin'...
Unfortunately, regrettably - for 'Godzoners' - the Great One in the Heavens is way too much of a true gentleman not to respect our (heartfelt) wishes...
...and so I've little doubt that He will indeed back off - bigtime - on the back (pun entirely unintended, believe me) of this latest in a succession/series of ever-escalating moral misjudgments this nation has made over (pretty much precisely) the past two decades...
...leaving us to the consequences of the shortsighted decisions and ungodly choices we've made.
But beware of what you wish for, folks...they have an uncanny habit of eventually coming to pass...and believe you me, when you turn from the Only One in Whom there is either temporal help or eternal salvation...you have effectively given yourselves and your futures into the hands of one who with great glee will take advantage of your wilful ignorance and self-imposed blindness...
...and last I heard, folks, he's taking no prisoners, except down into the Lake of Fire where he is going in the reasonably foreseeable...
But as my ole Dad used to say, "you pays your money and you takes your choice."
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