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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.

Kapiti Coast Nude Beaches and Council Shocker

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Media Release 24 Sept 2008

The Kapiti Coast Media Release dated 19 September, published at ratepayers’ expense in the Kapiti-Observer on Monday, is a shocker. It seeks to ‘clarify’ matters relating to its proposed Beach By-law 2008, but contains a number of false and misleading statements. Kapiti Mayor Jenny Rowan, Deputy Mayor Anne Chapman and Councillors Anne Molineux and Peter Ellis have all gone public in the media endorsing, albeit with some reservations, nudity on Kapiti beaches. [Read more…]

Abortion Supervisory Committee to appeal Abortion Judicial Review Judgment to Court of Appeal.

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Media Release – Right-to-Life (NZ) 2 August

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Crown counsel acting for the Abortion Supervisory Committee has advised that the Committee has lodged an appeal with the Court of Appeal.

This appeal is from the judgment of Justice Forrest Miller delivered on 9 June 2008 at the completion of a Judicial Review of the Abortion Supervisory Committee in the High Court in Wellington.

The judgment found that “there is reason to doubt the lawfulness of many abortions authorised by certifying consultants. Indeed the Committee itself has stated that the law is being used more liberally than Parliament intended”. [Read more…]

Family blames Dr Nitschke’s book for woman’s death

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File photo of Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke

Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke. (AAP: Dean Lewins, file photo)

A Perth woman is calling on the federal Attorney General to ban a book written by euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke.

Sally Doyle’s sister, Erin Berg, who was not terminally ill, became suicidal after the breakdown of her marriage and the birth of her fourth child.

Ms Doyle says her sister borrowed one of Mr Nitschke’s books from a public library and travelled to Mexico to purchase a drug restricted from sale within Australia. She died ten days later.

Ms Doyle says she wants the book withdrawn from sale in Australia.

“Our concern is that there actually is a significant amount of specific suicide information peppered throughout the book,” she said.

“Included in the book is information identifying and repeatedly identifying what Nitschke terms the best drug with which to suicide.”

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/12/2301934.htm

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Society Granted Leave to have classification of Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version) reviewed

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Press Release 21 July 2008

The Society was today granted leave by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, Mr Brendan Boyle, to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review to review the classification of the computer game Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version). The game was classified R18 by the Chief Censor’s Office. [Read more…]