Category Archives: Human Dignity

Porn research awarded $790,000 by Marsden Fund

Auckland researchers have been awarded almost $800,000 to study pornography. The $790,000 study by Auckland University staff will look at how it affects viewers and its impact on society. The research will include studies on young men and women, an art exhibition, an interactive website and a public symposium. The project is one of 88 [...]

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Abuse of alcohol at Toast Martinborough wine festival

GROSSLY intoxicated young women, some incontinent and smeared in their own blood, are a symptom of  Toast Martinborough wine festival’s “feral” drinking culture, police warn. “If their mothers could see them, they’d shut the festival down tomorrow,” the officer in charge of the event, Sergeant Kevin Basher, said. Martinborough residents have joined him in warning [...]

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Pro-life testimony – celebrating Christian tradition

World renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who has sold more than 70 million albumns worldwide, in an interview with Bryony Gordon of the Telegraph Group, told her that religion has “first place in my life. I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God”. Speaking in pidgin English,via a [...]

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Art shock ‘kills’ PM [John Key] in alley – Sunday Star Times

ARTIST SAM Mahon has painted a picture of John Key as a corpse and made it part of an interactive game on his website called, “Who killed John Key?” Mahon, who calls himself a socialist, says he hopes the image “will simply make people curious”. He wants to “put a bunch of ‘Key crtimes’ on [...]

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Promotion of the “moral welfare” of children and young persons

In 1952 the Minister of Child Welfare in the McLarty government of Western Australia, Arthur Watts, introduced amendments to the Child Welfare Act to widen the definition of “neglect” to include children “living under such conditions as to indicate that the mental, physical or moral welfare of the chid is likely to be in jeopardy” [...]

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Deregistration of Porn Teacher Appropriate – Family First

In its Media Release today, the highly respected registered charity Family First NZ has welcomed the decision by the New Zealand Teacher’s Council to deregister a female primary school teacher for her “serious misconduct”  – involving her work as a porn magazine model (See 35 page decision The Complaints Assessment Committee v Rachel Kellie Whitwell. NZTDT 2011/7).  The [...]

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Slavery at sea exposed – Sunday Star Times

Alerted to terrible conditions on foreign-crewed fishing vessels after nearly 30 people lost their lives, Michael Field began asking questions. [It appears from his research that New Zealand government officials have been turning a blind eye to moral corruption and human rights abuses in the fishing industry for years... read on]. SECRET PAPERS obtained under [...]

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The real harms of prostitution – MercatorNet

Why would we legalise what women who have experienced it call ‘paid rape’ and voluntary slavery’? What is prostitution really like for the person in it? Recently The Economist ran a debate online about legalising prostitution. Putting the case against was San Francisco psychologist Melissa Farley, who is also the founder of Prostitution Research and [...]

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John M Carr – director of Eden Digital Ltd – porn promo company that degrades and dehumanises women

Porn King’s Billboard Banned. Wiliam Mace. BusinessDay.co.nz Porn king Steve Crow’s latest affront to society – a moving billboard displaying an image of a “woman’s naked pelvic area with a halved melon” positioned in front of it – has been banned by the Advertising Standards Complaints Board.  http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/4238566/Porn-kings-billboard-banned The woman appears to be “simulating female [...]

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Steve Crow’s “Boobs on Bikes” – “puerile, dismally witless and calulatedly offensive” – Sunday NZ Herald Editorial Opinion

Writer of the Sunday NZ Herald Editorial suggests “…the [Boobs on Bikes] parade is best treated like the show-off child it so much resembles – by being ignored.” The writer is adamant that the massive billboard of a naked woman Steve, his bother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, [...]

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Suicide toll surpasses road deaths – Approval by Board of pro-suicide book slammed by Society.

In the light of the release of new coroners’ figures on suicide rates, the Society is slamming a unanimous decision by the 8-member Film and Literature Board of Review to support the public availability of a sick book that provides step-by-step methods of how to commit suicide and assist others to do so.

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Society applies a second time for Interim Restriction Order against Dr Death’s book

Copy of second application to Board President – Ms Claudia Elliott, dated 27 June 2008  

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Thank You Ken Orr & Right to Life

You Tube Video posted in appreciation by an admirer See: http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JTow-oumY Also see: Abortion – High Court decision http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=z1k8u5zDTWw The Case brought by Right to Life against the Abortion Supervisory Committee has highlighted that:

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Lindsay Perigo’s speech that ‘launched’ Dr Death’s book

Peaceful Pill Book ‘Launched’ in NZ. Perigo labels those responsible for seeking to restrict or ban The Peaceful Pill Handbook as motivated by “religious bigotry” and only fit for the trash-can of human history. Dr Philip Nitschke’s Peaceful Pill Handbook was launched in Auckland on Sunday 13th February 2007. The next day an application from [...]

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Society confident of ban on The Peaceful Pill Handbook

Media Release 13 June 2008 The Society is confident that The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New Revised International Edition) co-authored by Dr Phillip Nitschke (dubbed ‘Dr Death’ by the media) will be banned by early next week by the President of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Elliott, in response to its application [...]

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Society President Angry over Pro-Abortionists’ Crimes and Deception

Press Release 11 June 2008 Society president John Mills is very angry and says: “In the Silent Screams DVD promoted on our Society’s website (www.spcs.org) an unborn child is torn apart without anaesthetic. Someone needs to be held to account for such brutal murders carried out every day in New Zealand with taxpayers’ funding. By [...]

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Application for Interim Restriction Order Against The Peaceful Pill Handbook by ‘Dr Death’ [Nitschke]

On 5 June 2008 the Society made an application to the President of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Elliott, for an Interim Restriction Order under s. 49 of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 (“the Act”), with respect to The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New International Revised Edition), coauthored by [...]

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Gay, Giggly, Liberal Reverend who Promotes A Culture of Death (Assisted Suicide): Seeks Martyrdom

‘I make it look like they died in their sleep’ Jon Ronson The Guardian Monday 12 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/12/mentalhealth.health Summary Irish police are seeking the arrest and extradition of the Reverend George Exoo,  “a giggly, gay liberal unitarian preacher, cultured funny, [and]charming.” who is “a leading figure in the right-to-die movement.” Like fellow right-to-die propagandist Dr [...]

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Public Address: Lessons From the Life of William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833)

Public Address: Friday Evening 15 June, 2007 Delivered by Society Executive Director David Lane The Grand Hall at Parliament, Parliament Buildings, Wellington “Let us Now Praise Famous Men” Ecclesiasticus 44:1 This year marks the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain and all its colonies. 200 years ago on the 25th March [...]

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Society Disgusted by Website Attacks on NZ Teachers

Press Release 19 July 2006 The Society is disgusted that many New Zealand secondary school teachers (all named) are being subject to a range of personal attacks and abuse on a new website where New Zealand students are encouraged to rate their teacher’s ability and post anonymous comments. The Secondary Teachers Union (PPTA) has also [...]

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