Anyone who creates policy knows that by centering the most vulnerable in your approach you create stronger policy. A government who treats beneficiaries as unworthy of support is a government who will always find a reason to dismiss the humanity of others - behaviour as dangerous as it is vile.

How fuckin dogshit does your brain have to be to think Roe was overturned in response to "shout your abortion." Christ I can't believe how much of my post-college career I spent trying to get on the writing taff at a prestige publication.

Unfortunately for NZ First, if their candidate had asked audience "Don't you know who I am?" answer would have been a baffled No. NZ First forgot to introduce former National MP Alfred Ngaro to crowd. Alf's Christian party failed so NZF is his new home. #NZpol www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plent...

the re-emergence of the Christian Zionist right winger Alfred Ngaro who is now a member of NZ 1st. This scumbag is the pacifica version of the evangelical assholes who are behind Americas current shit show. We need a lot less of this person.

Both men think they know better than pregnant people in Aotearoa NZ. They also approve of children becoming mums after SA by adult males. #nzpol #NZFirst #abortion #bodilyautonomy #abortionishealthcare #prochoice #proabortion

The Christian Nationalism of Alfred Ngaro and NewZeal I wrote about the small Christian Nationalist party contesting the 2023 election, and the orgins of an ideology known as 'Seven Mountains Dominionism'

When National MP Alfred Ngaro said charities would lose their funding if they criticised the government Bill English reprimanded him and made him apologise. Christopher Luxon needs to show the same standard of leadership and reprimand Shane Jones for his intimidation. #nzpol

#NZpol So, RW ultra Christian Nationalist (be honest about it, that's what we're dealing with) Alfred Ngaro, ex National, ex Christian Party of his own, has joined NZ First? Winston's really firming up a NZ MAGA movement alright, from the antivaxxers, to conspiracists - now a leading God Squadder.

US health department investigates 13 states that require insurance plans to cover abortion | Abortion https://www.europesays.com/uk/842213/ The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Thursday that it is investigating 13 states…

The disinformation being spread, particularly by anti-trans activists (who are in lock step with the Christian Right) is wild. Abortion is still tightly regulated and gate kept and still requires two doctors to agree. The limit remains 24 weeks. 90% of abortions happen before 10 weeks.

Leonard Nimoy did erotic photography. He marched for Abortion. He got along well with William Shatner when nobody did. He was so great.

Of course they're doing this to a Black woman first. Support Democrats in Georgia, and get rid of these Republican mofos.

Apropos of nothing, if you’re publishing talking points verbatim without context, challenge or critique, especially leading up to a critical election where, as demonstrated in the US, lack of accountability for disinformation & bigotry have dire consequences, you’re doing propaganda, not journalism.

The family of pedophiles that Matt Walsh wrote an article defending can't stop abusing children

NZ's former PM Jacinda Ardern & her Finance Minister Grant Robertson's legacy will stand up to the lens of history. Their competency was in results, whether economic, social or Covid pandemic management, which two Royal Commissions in NZ confirmed as among the best in the world

A 45-minute ministerial meeting retroactively stripped pay equity claims from tens of thousands of nurses, teachers and carers. No select committee. No public debate. Just a meeting. The "world-leading" Equal Pay Act, neutered between coffees. #nzpol

Bloody marvellous! Huzzah I say! San Francisco jury finds Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during $44 billion takeover www.courthousenews.com/san-francisc...

In case anyone forgot how incoherent this administration’s policies are… we just removed sanctions on a nation we’re actively at war with. Oh well, at least the cowards in the GOP will have to spend the weekend trying to explain how this won’t fund the war for Iran (it will).

open.substack.com/pub/maganazi... This is what the SAVE act is really about.

This is a horror story. The cruelty and injustice of abortion bans is destroying so many lives.

In the UK, the House of Lords (also called Peers 🤔) voted to pardon women who had already been convicted of illegal abortion and to expunge police records of those arrested. This comes after the gov't decriminalized women in June. The anti-choice movement is furious women can't be jailed anymore.

Justice for Adriana

Georgia’s abortion ban has made pregnancy unsafe Amber Thurman died at 28 after doctors delayed care for a miscarriage Adriana Smith was brain dead & turned into an incubator because she was 9 weeks pregnant Alexia Moore has been charged with murder for using the abortion pill.

Brooke van Velden looked at the lowest-paid workers in this country and considered giving them absolutely nothing, while the cost of everything around them kept going up. Considering a 0% increase of the minimum wage is a slap in the face to workers who are already struggling to get by

Putting on my scratched record to play what should be plainly obvious to everyone now. Rocketlab are just a part of the US war machine.

The Epstein Case. Pam Bondi & Todd Blanche’s bizarre appearance in Oversight. A Voter Suppression bill. ICE and DHS funding. And War in Iran. A brief, but bizarre, week in Congress. Here’s what went down.

Good news! The House of Lords has supported decriminalisation of abortion and pardons for those convicted under the former unjust, criminal system. This step forward is long overdue. Proud that NZ got there 6 years ago. #abortion #nzpol @alranz.bsky.social

A woman in Malta has been given an 18-month sentence, suspended for 3 years, after being found guilty of accessing an abortion. Malta's abortion laws harm women and pregnant people again and again. www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_a...

My new piece for @cafedotcom: This is how reproductive rights are lost. We can't let women be relegated to second class status on the civil rights agenda, or everyone suffers. cafe.com/notes-from-c...

Midwife Martine Naigna has spent 15 years working in Chad’s toughest humanitarian settings to meet the reproductive health needs of women and girls. She's built her career in a landscape where abortion is legally restricted and where barriers and patriarchal norms have cost women their lives.

Members of Apache tribe take sacred land case to Supreme Court. "For the Apaches, Oak Flat holds a direct connection to their creator, making it a foundational part of their religious beliefs. Oak Flat is also the [location] of a large copper deposit." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Thanks to shield laws in blue states, abortion providers and helpers are protected from being prosecuted for providing care to patients in states where abortion is illegal. “It’s painfully obvious that anti-abortion extremists are targeting shield laws because they are working.”

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - @russelnorman.bsky.social LIVE on Greenpeace's Iranian war petition - Chris Hipkins talks fuel crisis messaging from Govt - Nicole McKee and Marama Davidson square off over inequality in schools #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social youtube.com/live/d-f2ql6...

'He cannot be trusted': NY Times editors decimate Trump's leadership in blistering putdown www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2...

Opening statement should be: "We note for the record that the DOW is currently BELOW 50,000 which means that Ms. Bondi should have no issues testifying>

Here's some fascinating and inspiring conversations from the recent Abortion in America conference in Louisiana, by abortion storytellers and reproductive justice leaders in the state.

NZ has rejected: - A clearer definition of a pandemic emergency - Set expectations for countries to strengthen surveillance systems/ preparedness planning This call by NZ First to reject common sense changes, motivated solely by ideology has vast public health implications. We are in deep trouble.

"Yeah nah" ~ Nicola Willis, 2026

We live in Rip Off Britain. We have to lower people's bills and tax wealth fairly. This morning I'll be starting to lay out our vision of how to do this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Abortion Law Reform in Aotearoa New Zealand! Six years ago, women no longer had to jump through hoops & ask permission to get an #abortion before 20 weeks. The fight to keep our right to bodily autonomy is never over. If re-elected, this #antichoice govt will attack abortion access. #nzpol #NZ

We need inclusion and Te Tiriti back in the curriculum. #nzpol our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

Vulnerable women in England are still being arrested and investigated over suspected illegal abortions - despite parliament backing changes to the law to decriminalise abortion. One problem is that healthcare providers are reporting women - a violation of medical ethics!

This kind of crap is why we need to get donations out of politics. Money is not speech. The rich do not merit more influence than the rest of us. #nzpol

OMG let's stay behind. Let's dump AI on the trash heap with GMOs and nuclear energy. #nzpol

Medical complexities are addressed in the requirement for informed consent to medical procedures; legal complexities are an artifact of demonising medical care that was practised for millennia; ethical complexities are weighed in the hearts and minds of pregnant people. It's nobody else's business.

📺 NZ Green Party #nzpol 📢 We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally. 👉more news/weather bots#nzpol

Parents urging their first year student kids to get vaccinated now... Like, why didn't you make sure they were vaxxed before you sent them off to a different city for uni?

Mullingar lacks a specialist bereavement midwife because the successful candidate cannot leave their current job, an Oireachtas committee heard on Wednesday, 18 February. topic.ie/not-half-as-... @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @inmoirl.bsky.social

"Russian-controlled authorities in occupied Ukraine are increasing restrictions on women's reproductive rights, effectively preventing them from accessing abortions, according to the NGO East Human Rights Group." Ukrainian (& Russian) women's bodily/repro autonomy is at great risk. Read here ⬇️