Thread by @GodlessNZ

@genaughton57 1) I appreciate your points, but want to clarify the Charlie Gard case. It's different; Using child welfare laws very similar to US law, the Court withheld treatment bc it was likely hurting him, with no chance of success. Whereas here, they are harming a woman & killing a child.

@genaughton57 2) This Court is likely claiming it *knows* the woman's welfare is better served by forcing "treatment" on her, but it disregards her actual state. Whether or not the child is likely to suffer from a disability, it will be using the woman's welfare as the rationale.

@genaughton57 3) On one hand, the woman's mother's decision to let the case go through the Courts (instead of fleeing the country together) serves the public interest by forcing the complacent majority to face the fact their longstanding laws allow such crimes against the person. But...

@genaughton57 4) OTOH, the woman's and the baby's interests would have been better served by fleeing abroad, to the Vatican or even better, the USA, where the environment is more conducive to keeping the state out of the decision-making.

@genaughton57 5) In the USA, funds would have been raised within hours to provide for the woman and her mother to survive and thrive, while allowing the baby to live and receive whatever care he or she needed. Treatment costs would be separated from welfare questions.

@genaughton57 6) See, in a country with socialized medicine / single payer, it doesn't matter how much private money you show the state, it will always default to the assumption that it will be left with the financial liability. A good example of this is:

@genaughton57 7) In a recent NZ case, an eminent mathematics professor was filling a spot at a top college during a severe labor shortage in his field. His wife and children were living happily with him. IIRC they came from the UK and intended to settle here permanently. But they were denied.

@genaughton57 8) His son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) which, as the term "spectrum implies," can be anything from mild to severe. Regardless, the "free" health & education services on offer here for people with ASD are pretty rudimentary & cost little per annum,

@genaughton57 9) It was batshit insane to deny citizenship to this highly productive family of 4 or 5, on the basis of nothing more than about $6k p/a cost for just a few years of schooling.

"Single payer" (which isn't even that) has so many negative outcomes.

@genaughton57 10) Personally, recognizing that elective abortion is murder, I oppose the legalization of it. The so-called medical consensus that an intellectually impaired woman's interests are better served by doing this against her & her legal rep's express wishes, is of course flawed.

@genaughton57 11) The root cause of the problem is the way medicine & psychology are dominated by "progressive" ideology (which of course is regressive.)

Courts defer to the "professional consensus" du jour, as if it is objective truth. A faith based approach, at best.

@genaughton57 12) Courts, and the legislative branches that are supposed to regulate their activities, have surrendered their moral and ethical responsibilities to the unelected technocracy of regressive medical and psychology college faculties. The deep state in action.

@genaughton57 13) The only peaceful, lawful remedy is to use our voting power to fill our legislatures and executives with sane, normal people, who still have a working moral compass and can distinguish right from wrong.

@genaughton57 14) We must also resist the drive to demonize people of faith, which is the most successful political method they use to keep sanity out of these policy are judicial decisions.

I, an agnostic, relish the opportunity to counter the discrimination thrown at people of faith.

@genaughton57 15) I may be stuck in Godless New Zealand for a few more years, but I will keep using the power of teh intertubes to confront people with the facts, context, and nuances denied to them by media and other societal influences.

We are taking back our power.

@genaughton57 16) A British baby, mother, and grandmother are paying a steep price for living in a once free country that is on a path to fulfilling the prophecies of it's accomplished literary son, Eric Arthur Blair.

I sense that the tide is turning in the mothership. Keep the faith.

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