To Be Continued...in the reasonably foreseeable...
Monday, September 23rd eve:
(Unapologetically written in a rather higgledy-piggledy, back-to-front order; as is my invariable wont.) In unapologetic defence of a nonconformist doctor from maverick Cork, Ireland. In regards to how the 'rights' of a vocal minority are effectively trampling upon those of the person with genuine conscientious scruples - especially those serving in the healthcare profession.
Eight months and three (i.e. 243) days on...from when I penned the following (on January 20th), after a BBC Radio interview between (then) 'O.S.' host/compere *'Lula' (no, Nuala, apparently) McGovern and a certain Irish doctor ("Brandon'), from the little ole town of Cork...
...my incentive to finally get it into blogsville simply being that I spent the better part of Thursday evening last making my own personal individual submission to the New Zealand Government's Select Committee on the proposed, and already post-first reading-stage, Government-sponsored abortion bill to - among numerous other things/objects - take this morally contentious conundrum out of the Crimes Act...
Yes, we're - well and truly, long since - living in the era of the ethical double-standard, the time when it's considered utterly intolerable to be a part of the so-called, supposedly 'pale, stale, male' set...and yet those who thus preach so fervently and incessantly, long and loud...for 'tolerance' and against the allegedly super-'intolerant'...rarely if ever extend the same level of tolerance to those whose views they are so patently intolerant of...
Yes, when(ever) the **'omniscient', 'omnipotent', 'omnipresent' state stands where it ought not (i.e. in the secret place of the human conscience), there's only one word for it, one thing to say: beware!
*The name, however, which I always hear whenever I 'hear' her name mentioned thereupon; though these days it sounds like she's moved to and is the new host of the BBC's 'Sportsworld' instead...
**Hey, that sounds eerily reminiscent of a certain Eric Blair - infinitely better known as George Orwell, the author of two epochal tomes of the 20th Century, 1984 and Animal Farm.
To Be Continued...again (but shuteye beckons!)
Tuesday, September 24th:
*As/After the Irish Parliament *recently enacted enabling legislation following the overwhelming victory for the 'Yes' campaign (supporting the legalization of abortion generally) in Ireland's earlier (and *also very recent) referendum on the subject/matter only a little earlier last year...
...the matter of the GP (general practitioner) or physician/doctor at the very coalface of the issue has been brought into more stark relief...i.e. the necessity for a(ny) woman seeking an abortion **going forward is of course/naturally enough, as in any number of Western jurisdictions (including New Zealand), dependent upon her getting approval/'sign-off' by said doctor/s...
*Again, written as this was way back in January this year.
**Much as I detest, absolutely loathe this much-vaunted 'modernism', it does seem useful here...
To Be Continued...
Monday, September 23rd eve:
(Unapologetically written in a rather higgledy-piggledy, back-to-front order; as is my invariable wont.) In unapologetic defence of a nonconformist doctor from maverick Cork, Ireland. In regards to how the 'rights' of a vocal minority are effectively trampling upon those of the person with genuine conscientious scruples - especially those serving in the healthcare profession.
Eight months and three (i.e. 243) days on...from when I penned the following (on January 20th), after a BBC Radio interview between (then) 'O.S.' host/compere *'Lula' (no, Nuala, apparently) McGovern and a certain Irish doctor ("Brandon'), from the little ole town of Cork...
...my incentive to finally get it into blogsville simply being that I spent the better part of Thursday evening last making my own personal individual submission to the New Zealand Government's Select Committee on the proposed, and already post-first reading-stage, Government-sponsored abortion bill to - among numerous other things/objects - take this morally contentious conundrum out of the Crimes Act...
Yes, we're - well and truly, long since - living in the era of the ethical double-standard, the time when it's considered utterly intolerable to be a part of the so-called, supposedly 'pale, stale, male' set...and yet those who thus preach so fervently and incessantly, long and loud...for 'tolerance' and against the allegedly super-'intolerant'...rarely if ever extend the same level of tolerance to those whose views they are so patently intolerant of...
Yes, when(ever) the **'omniscient', 'omnipotent', 'omnipresent' state stands where it ought not (i.e. in the secret place of the human conscience), there's only one word for it, one thing to say: beware!
*The name, however, which I always hear whenever I 'hear' her name mentioned thereupon; though these days it sounds like she's moved to and is the new host of the BBC's 'Sportsworld' instead...
**Hey, that sounds eerily reminiscent of a certain Eric Blair - infinitely better known as George Orwell, the author of two epochal tomes of the 20th Century, 1984 and Animal Farm.
To Be Continued...again (but shuteye beckons!)
Tuesday, September 24th:
*As/After the Irish Parliament *recently enacted enabling legislation following the overwhelming victory for the 'Yes' campaign (supporting the legalization of abortion generally) in Ireland's earlier (and *also very recent) referendum on the subject/matter only a little earlier last year...
...the matter of the GP (general practitioner) or physician/doctor at the very coalface of the issue has been brought into more stark relief...i.e. the necessity for a(ny) woman seeking an abortion **going forward is of course/naturally enough, as in any number of Western jurisdictions (including New Zealand), dependent upon her getting approval/'sign-off' by said doctor/s...
*Again, written as this was way back in January this year.
**Much as I detest, absolutely loathe this much-vaunted 'modernism', it does seem useful here...
To Be Continued...
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