Otago Daily Times 29 November 2013 Families are struggling to keep up with bill payments as everyday expenses continue to rise, a budgeting service says. A Statistics New Zealand survey shows average weekly household spending has increased by more than $90…
Stuff.co.nz 28 November 2013 Some heavy cannabis users are up to 11 times more likely to develop schizophrenia, a drug symposium in Auckland has been told. People with a certain gene combination that exists in 25 percent of the population had that heightened…
LifeNews 27 November 2013 A Belgian Senate committee voted today to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide had been fearing would come and expand an already much-abused euthanasia law even further. The Belgian Senate…
National Right to Life 21 November 2013 It caused a bit of a stir in 1991 when three “pro-choice” feminists came out with a book warning of the dangers of the chemical abortifacient RU-486. “RU486: Misconception, Myths and Morals,” written…
Young mums’ fresh chances NZ Herald 25 November 2013 While they love their children dearly, the teenage mums at Rotorua’s School for Young Parents have a message for others: “Don’t get pregnant young.” The school, one of 22 teen parent…
Stuff.co.nz 25 November 2013 Five North Island schools are now bravely rolling out a sex education policy apparently tailor-made to be absorbed by ankle-biters as young as 5 years old. In a TV news item, teacher and sexuality educator Kathryn…
Media Release 26 Nov 2013 “A weak-kneed approach to marijuana use will simply send all the wrong messages that small amounts of drug use or dealing or growing aren’t that big a deal – the completely wrong message, especially for…
The Telegraph 25 November 2013 1) The tyranny of “happiness” 2) Drugging the populace The people of Brave New World are kept chilled with a drug called soma. Described as having “all of the advantages of Christianity and alcohol [and]…
The Independent 25 November 2013 Catherine Deneuve, who played a prostitue on film, is against. Sylviane Agacinski, one of France’s most respected philosophers, is for. Elisabeth Badinter, another feminist philosopher, is against. Should people who pay for sex be arrested,…
