Via "Pregnant Minister Cycles to Hospital to Give Birth" (NYT), which includes this info:
[Julie Anne] Genter, who was born in Minnesota and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, joined the left-leaning Green Party as a volunteer shortly after migrating to New Zealand in 2006, and she has represented the party in Parliament since 2011....ADDED: That's an e-bike.
On its Twitter account, the Green Party declared Ms. Genter’s bicycle journey to the hospital “the most #onbrand thing ever.”
CORRECTION: She's not the prime minister (as I originally had in the post title). She's the minister for women and associate minister for health and transport. (The first paragraph of the article is about the prime minister, a bit confusingly.)
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On its Twitter account, the Green Party declared Ms. Genter’s bicycle journey to the hospital “the most #onbrand thing ever.
Agreed. Having a car that is too small to meet your needs is definitely #onbrand for the Green Party.
New Zealand is very green. Also not much car/truck traffic so a dailating woman would be safe pedaling to the birthing suite. Assuming she was dailated.
If she pedaled to the hospital 9 months prior to giving birth that’s some other New Zealand thing entirely.
Not enough room in the car for the support crew. This prompts the question: How Many New Zealanders does it take to deliver a pregnant woman to the hospital? One to pedal the bike and a dozen to signal her virtue.
Pregnant minister cycles to hospital to give birth
Welcome to universal healthcare!
Wait - the Prime Minister of New Zealand is from BERKELEY?
I am staying far, far away from that country....
Seriously. Isn't the support supposed to be waiting for you at the hospital? You don't pick them up on the way. I'm imagining a very funny Monty Python skit.
Some crazy Berkeley chick made it big in New Zealand politics?
I just hope she doesn't make soup out of the placenta.
And we think Trump is unusual?
Try doing that in muslim Tajikistan.......
Julie Anne Genter is a Love Dumpling.
Didn't realize how backwater New Zealand was until now.
What a beautiful baby - what's Xis or Xer's name?
"Minister for Women, Associate Minister for Health and Associate Minister for Transport"
Congratulations to her, her partner, and their unPlanned baby. The first three trimesters is a period of Choice that is a first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic child care.
Ripe, but not Prime.
She’s a government minister but not the prime minister. Julie Anne Genter is the Minister for Women, Associate Minister for Health, and Associate Minister for Transport. So this may be her perfect PR stunt.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand is Jacinda Ardern.
Too bad New Zealand under her leadership is such a poor country they don't even have taxis (or Uber!) in their major cities.
I’m sure this lady did exactly what appealed to her and didn’t happen because of a conscious decision for political gain. Her history shows that it’s a 100% true event. She hasn’t just drink the Koolaid, she drank the Koolaid store dry. I bet the idea popped into her and she couldn’t resist. “Here, hold this.” It would have taken a heart of stone not to laugh at all the bases touched in her lifetime. Have some pity for the baby. The indoctrination will start soon.
“...partner...”
That word doesn’t sit well with me.
I like wife or husband better.
If this made her happy, great for her.
The “left-leaning Green Party”?
What does it take to be called leftist? This Berkeley-educated Minnesotan is probably their right-winger.
When my wife was in labor (three times) it would have been unsmart to do something like that. Some virtues are worth signaling I guess.
Some crazy Berkeley chick made it big in New Zealand politics?
I just hope she doesn't make soup out of the placenta.
I went to grad school in a Canadian prairie town in the 70s with a guy from northern California. His girlfriend kept her placenta in their freezer. They also painted their VW Minibus with paint brushes.
(As a side note, after knowing the guy for over a year, we discovered that we had gone to the same high school in a suburb of Los Angeles but not at the same time.)
“The Prime Minister of New Zealand is Jacinda Ardem.”
Well that fact spoils the whole “having it all” narrative. It must remain hidden.
Whatever.
She had a baby, a good thing in itself, no matter how silly she was about it.
If you can get her lot to make this fashionable, pedaling to the hospital in labor, followed by a retinue, every couple of years, that would go a long way to solving your demographic problems.
Think about it, if you can make it a status symbol they will try to do this as often as they can.
Nice try with the bike but having a baby increases carbon dioxide emissions. That little carbon emitter is her fault now.
"Ms. Ardern was driven there in June by her partner, Clarke Gayford" So both ministers (women?) have partners. the Ardern-Gayford offspring is named Neve."
This is what liberalism has spawned. Isn't it all sweet?
"[Julie Anne] Genter, who was born in Minnesota and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, joined the left-leaning Green Party"
Phew, lucky for us
Can't we start an emigration program for lefties from racist Amerikkka? I mean, they must eager to leave anyway, so it shouldn't cost much.
Or fund a new program at UC Berkeley, "Study Abroad, Stay Abroad"?
The prime minister, Jacinda Ardem, had a baby in June. She also has a "partner" rather than a husband. But she didn't bike to the hospital.
In another part of the forest, the New Zealand government has just prohibited non-citizens from buying into the country's red-hot real-estate market.
Which of her selves peddled?
Time for the Maoris to rise up and take back the islands before more hippies emigrate there.
She rode a bike to have her delivery induced? I just spent all afternoon reading about how inhumane and monstrous it was for ICE to make a woman drive herself to the hospital to get induced because they arrested her husband for being an illegal immigrant (and, oh, by the way, a murderer).
I guess they should have impounded the car and given her a bike.
Unh... ok. Need I have an opinion about this?
-sw
”In another part of the forest, the New Zealand government has just prohibited non-citizens from buying into the country's red-hot real-estate market.”
They were talking about prohibitions on the purchase of existing homes. You sure the law was actually passed?
Doesn't look 42 weeks pregnant. Dates are wrong or the baby has IUGR.
Here you go, Mike.
Read it and weep.
The minister of transportation and she couldn't wrangle a ride to the hospital? Either that is a lie to justify the PR stunt, or New Zealand is a poor, underdeveloped country.
New Zealand made a hard ;eft turn a few years ago after a nice market economic boom. I don't know enough about their politics to know why but Australia has also gone left the past 3o years which is a disappointment.
I like Australia a lot but Queensland seems to be the only conservative spot left.
Induced? That's like a planned event. I'm now officially unimpressed.
as numerous folk have mentioned, she's just an mp (minister of Parliament), not a PM (prime minister)
Much MORE Troubling. Her partner's name is: Peter Nunns
WHAT SORT OF A FREAK goes out with a woman named Peter Nunns?
WHAT SORT OF A FREAK is an mp for The GREEN Party, and HAS A MALE PARTNER?
I'm sorry, that's just weird (unless, Peter's name used to be Tabitha, i guess that'd be okay)
Buying a home in New Zealand just got a lot tougher for most people.
The country's parliament on Wednesday passed a law banning foreigners from buying into most parts of its residential property market as the government seeks to cool red-hot house prices.
Asset inflation blew up our mortgage market. Thanks Freddie and Fannie for redistributing the change. Obamacare was an attempt to suppress visibility of a similar phenomenon in the "health care" sector.
Thanks, tcrosse.
Her partner's name is: Peter Nunns... I'm sorry, that's just weird (unless, Peter's name used to be Tabitha, i guess that'd be okay)
I think we have to assume that the pregnancy was a natural conception, and that "partner" implies an unconventional relationship between a woman and a man, that still meets the psychological standards for the so-called "cis" label (i.e. feminine female and masculine male, respectively). Perhaps a cismarriage, but they have elected to forego the traditional appellations.
Who is the minister for men?
She could probably sell her bicycle seat on eBay for a fortune.
a baby increases carbon dioxide emissions. That little carbon emitter is her fault now
Yes. Hopefully, she Planned... I mean, planned, ahead and purchased her carbon credits for the happy occasion. Also, there is evidence, Chelsea Clinton: ‘Roe’ Helped Add ‘Three and a Half Trillion Dollars to Our Economy’, that GDP progress followed when women were labeled "barefoot and pregnant" and motherhood was denigrated.
New Zealand does not approve open border in its domestic politics,
They advocate it for all others.
It's not as though she was in labor. She was going to the hospital to have labor induced. So, BFD, IMO.
Apparently all the men were doing the Haka before the rugby match, so, you know, gals have to fend for themselves.
Proving the old adage that a woman needs a man like a ditz needs a bicycle.........
Sounds uncomfortable.
She wasn’t in labor, she was going to the hospital so they could induce her.
That's one way to keep the little bastard in there till you're ready.
Wake me up when they post video of her peddling back home with the baby.
Minister for Women sounds a little retrograde, reminiscent of when newspapers had a women's page with sewing, cooking and God knows what else, presumably to keep their pretty little heads occupied. Enough with the microaggessions, New Zealand. They should all be ministries for women.
/golf clap
Just about everyone says partner instead of husband or wife in NZ. Not surprised they passed the law foreigners can't buy homes. It seems pretty easy to pass totally new policies just cuz they see a problem.
Yawn. She wasn't in labor, so the actual story is "pregnant woman rides bike."
And that's before getting to the "Added: that's an e-bike."
So she didn't even do that.
Does New Zealand have a minister for men?
by becoming only the second sitting world leader to give birth,
Only if you exclude a zillion queens throughout history, some of them Rulers...
PS: the PM is a republican, which there means she rejects Elizabeth II as Queen in connection to NZ.
Andrew Sullivan will be all over this story.
The article serving as the source for footnote #2 says she has dual citizenship. It also says she left the U.S. in 2002 on account of the reelection of George W. Bush.
If she was quoted on that, we know she is pretty fucking libtarded, and she should know (or could do a quick search to see) that 2002 was not a U.S. Presidential election year.
That is footnote 2 to her wikipedia reference.
How is she getting the bike home?
I wouldn't characterize the minister for women of New Zealand as a "world leader." No disrespect, but she's not a world leader.
Good thing ICE wasn't involved in this!
"no- THIS one I ride to the hospital to give birth--
...THAT one is my menstrual cycle."
"no- THIS one I ride to the hospital to give birth--
...THAT one is my menstrual cycle."}}}}
LOL now I'm trying to picture what a great Menstrual Cycle would look like. Recumbant---pink, of course---with a ginormous heated gel-cushioned seat and a large hands-free Pez-type dispenser that lobs chocolate bits into your mouth at regular intervals.
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