People now slip behind rivers in order of importanceMURRAY WILSON/FAIRFAX NZ The Whanganui River now has all the rights and duties of a legal person. The Bill gives the river all the corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a legal person. That's an unborn person. An unborn person with a functioning brain and all the vital organs, fingers, toes and developing character that just needs time and love to be born and become a legal person. An unborn person with a beating heart who can be aborted, terminated, killed off almost at will it seems then thrown down the sink or incinerated.

Source: Stuff March 19, 2017 19:18 UTC