{"id":10804,"date":"2015-04-15T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10804"},"modified":"2015-04-15T21:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:32:17","slug":"the-right-to-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10804","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could not believe my ears tonight at dinner. We were watching the news (I know, I shouldn&#8217;t do it but sometimes it&#8217;s good intelligence gathering) when our Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, was being quoted talking about the budget.<br \/>\nI listened to what he said then raced to the kitchen to write down what after the vaccination blackmail I could not believe came out of his mouth.<br \/>\n&#8220;The whole point of our plan is to give people the best chance to lead the lives they choose; it\u2019s to give you the best opportunity to live the life you want.&#8221;<br \/>\nNow, he was talking about the budget, about money, but I think he is spot on the money with health too. Especially about health and our right to choose what we deem best for our own and our children&#8217;s bodies.<br \/>\nSo I plan to get this word out to as many people as possible to hold the rest of the government accountable to what Tony Abbott believes is the best plan &#8211; &#8220;To give people the best chance to lead the lives they choose.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou are welcome to share this. In fact, please do. I want every Australian citizen to be aware of what Tony Abbott thinks is the best plan.<br \/>\nI want the government at all levels, every single bureaucrat, every authoritarian know-best, no matter their attire, business suit or white coat, no matter their vocation &#8211; teacher, doctor, politician or public servant &#8211; to sit up and take notice.<br \/>\nI want every single person in this land to be fully aware of perhaps the greatest words ever to usher from Tony Abbott&#8217;s or any other Australian Prime Minister&#8217;s mouth.<br \/>\n&#8220;The whole point of our plan is to give people the best chance to lead the lives they choose; it\u2019s to give you the best opportunity to live the life you want.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis statement is philosophically opposed to being financially forced into accepting a potentially deadly cocktail of vaccinations for your child.<br \/>\nHere is the link to the statement: https:\/\/www.liberal.org.au\/latest-news\/2015\/04\/15\/prime-minister-address-australian-chamber-commerce-and-industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could not believe my ears tonight at dinner. We were watching the news (I know, I shouldn&#8217;t do it but sometimes it&#8217;s good intelligence gathering) when our Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, was being quoted talking about the budget. I listened to what he said then raced to the kitchen to write down what after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=10804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Right to Choose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}