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Milli Hill's avatar

Thanks for this and for your work. Obviously my main link to New Zealand is unfortunately via being deplatformed from the NZ college of midwives conference and a petition calling me a hateful person with which NZCoM decided to capitulate. This formed part of one of the darkest and most unpleasant couple of years of my life. So I'm very glad to see amazing NZ women like you pushing back against this ideology that doesn't care about women.

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Robin's avatar

The other point to make about this dog's breakfast is that when they did ask midwives prior to launching this onto an unsuspecting public, over 90% were opposed to the chosen wording and only about 3% thought it was a Great Leap Forward. Makes you wonder why they even bothered to ask for opinions as they clearly didn't listen to anyone, which is I suppose what happens when you join a cult that brooks no deviation from the party line.

It's bad enough the number of women-founded organisations that have abandoned women (in the name of "inclusivity" I guess us biology believing fossils can be safely excluded), but even babies are erased from midwifery care here. And what's with the adoption of a local form of Singlish (which is defined as a variety of English spoken in Singapore, incorporating elements of Chinese and Malay)? I'm all for incorporating Te Reo into daily life, but surely this is not the best way to do this. When I have shared this (and other government policies) with friends overseas, they often cannot understand any of it because there's not enough English to make it comprehensible, but of course for Maori speakers there's not enough Maori either.

It is astonishing to me that a Scope of Practice document can be so vague, obtuse and confusing that you can't even discern what the job it's describing is! What do midwives actually do when they're at work? Good luck figuring this out by reading this diktat from the gender woo Stasi.

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