The show runs for 30 minutes; in this episode I appear as a panel member (last time I was an audience member). Panelists are host, Setita Millar, Family First’s Bev Adair, National Party MP Paul Hutchison, Reverend Tavale Matai’a, Ula Sangyum, Cushla McNabb and moi!

A lot of the dialogue made the editing room floor, some of which was frustrating, and the conversation did stray more onto sex education – state v home – but it was still all good.

NOTE:
In this footage I make a comment stating I used the pill as a form of contraception. I wish to make it clear that on learning of the pill’s abortifacient properties (this applies to both the mini and combined pills) I ceased using it some years ago.

As a protestant I have no issue preventing conception. However, the pill permits conception but prevents implantation (often sneakily worded on your pill packet or by your doctor as “preventing pregnancy” where pregnancy is re-defined as beginning at implantation and not conception).  I reject the common protestant argument that because plenty of conceptuses fail to implant anyway it is ok to actually cause that to happen by taking the pill – if you view life beginning at conception this is like saying it is ok to shoot children in 3rd world countries because plenty will die of hunger and disease anyway.