On our back door
Do all you can for everyone who deserves your help. Don’t tell your neighbour to come back tomorrow, if you can help today. What a breath of fresh air to read Ria Bond’s article ‘‘Govt dragging chain with SuperGold Card’’ (June 5).
Ria, list MP for New Zealand First and the Invercargill electorate, has it spot on. Well balanced, precise, and pure common sense.
I have recently moved to Cromwell but Southland will always be in my heart.
It’s where I was born, bred and educated, as were my two children and two of my four granddaughters.
Stewart Island was part of our existence, as were all the beaches and bays round the Southland coastline, the extensive forests and rivers, all so easily accessible.
Tourists worldwide would die for this type of existence at their very back door. People, the incentive is there. An old saying comes to mind. ‘‘Use it or lose it’’.
Spread the word people. You are all sitting on a goldmine down there in the far south.
With a little effort from everyone, Invercargill and Southland could be brought back to its former glory. ratepayers. They are hell bent on destroying our health systems and hospitals down here in the south. All our hospitals are getting funding cuts.
If Barclay or Dowie have to go to our hospitals for treatment I hope they turn them away, saying ‘‘sorry no funds to treat you’’.
National Party supporters must have a guilty conscience about what’s going on.
Not a single word from Barclay or Dowie – silence is defining.
Bill English comes down here and greases them all with smiles and handshakes then says to himself ‘‘I’ve got these suckers where I want them. I’ve got them eating out of the palm of my hand’’. Right to Life is opposed to the new 0800 telephone ‘‘service’’ that Dr Simon Snook a Wairarapa abortionist, has established to enable women considering an abortion to have the killing of their child authorised over the phone without the need for a doctor to interview the woman.
How can a doctor claim to diagnose serious mental ill health in a woman he has never met, whom he does not know, whose medical history he does not have, whom he cannot examine and whom he may never see again. How can a doctor with a conscience sign a certificate authorising the killing of an innocent and defenceless child on the basis of a brief telephone conversation?
Who will protect women and their precious unborn from this cruel charade?
This ‘‘service’’ is unprofessional, unethical, shameful and a trivialisation of a serious legal process, it is questionably unlawful.
This deplorable development is demeaning to women and is an insult to the dignity of women; if today we may authorise the killing of the unborn over the phone, will we tomorrow with euthanasia be able to arrange with a doctor for the killing of the disabled, the elderly and the seriously ill over the phone for convenience?