Vietnam
It doesn’t matter if it’s making babies as a commercial surrogate or a10-year-old kid stitching together basketball shoes in Vietnam, exploitation in any commercial transaction is wrong and should be punished.
But you don’t ban basketball shoes. And I don’t understand why Australians have been banned from using commercial surrogates overseas.
Last year NSW passed its Surrogacy Act which, when it comes into effect, will make pursuing commercial surrogacy overseas a criminal act.
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Bill Clinton made an official visit to Vietnam today in 2000. It was the first trip made by a US president since 1969.
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stephen says:
I think the future of Asia is in the ‘consortium’ : a group of nations - Vietnam, Thailand, Nth and Sth Korea etc, - that are able to function as an economic and social unit. Kim Jong Il should be trying for this, rather than forcing through any sort of… Read more »
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Eric says:
Thieu was the President of South Vietnam. He resigned some time after the communist North Vietnamese broke the peace treaty they had signed 1973, and successfully invaded the South. Lacking American support, the South Vietnamese government collapsed. The communist victory led to the mass murder of millions of people. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB11.2.GIF… Read more »
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The Battle of Khe Sanh began in Vietnam on this day in 1968.
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Felix says:
Khe Sanh was a purely American/vietnamese experience - 6000 marines and not one Australian. Anyone know why Cold Chisel chose that name for their song about an Australian veteran? Maybe “I left my heart to the sappers round Nui Dat” didn’t sound right. Read more »
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Jack from Perth says:
I know a great Vietnam Vet… Dr Ng Phong fixed my cat’s ear infection in no time. Read more »
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Today in 1967 Senator John McCain, a US Navy officer and later 2008 Republican presidential candidate was shot down over North Vietnam. He spent 5.5 years as a prisoner of war, two of these years were spent in solitary confinement.
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That Great American, Tom Paine, said words to the effect that each generation should have the opportunity to re-make the world as he/she sees fit. (THE definition of American optimism.) George W. Bush saw his chance and did the right thing ; whatsmore, no country could have done better. Hussein… Read more »
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stephen says:
The fact of John McCain’s incarcaration may well have turned American voters off his candidacy. Americans, like Aussies, value experience and adventure, but not at the extreme, lest it turn us anti-suburban. President Obama is waiting. He’s letting events unfold, and shifting,ever so slightly, foreign policy. With the complexity of… Read more »
It’s Wednesday @ The Punch.
Today in 1967 American folk singer Joan Baez was arrested in Oakland, California for protesting against the Vietnam War.
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