ADVOCATING FOR THE birth RIGHT TO A CORPORATE SALARY

Aotearoa Birth Rights Organisation

-for the Best Babies!

 

CONSTITUTION

 

Mission Statement

There can be no more important work than that of creating the next generation. The introduction of our democratic country's Family Benefit payments in 1926, updated in 1938, certainly improved the lives of pregnant women before and after giving birth. Not much has changed in that system over these near-90 years. However, our changing civilisation requires taking actions which guarantee, Nature apart, an appealing future for everyone. Aotearoa Birth Rights Organisation offers such action, and such a future.

 

Context

Our democracy is changing because our now-electronic world fits us into an invisible, global network of communication. And of AI.

Artificial intelligence in this context means the machines – robots - like those already in use in Japan, robots that do the work of cleaning, cooking, driving, lifting, and so on. Such robots mean a large reduction in the availability of jobs in traditional, income-generating physical labour. AI is also already in use in accountancy, business planning, town planning etc, and this use will only increase.

The rise of AI is also happening at a time of falling birthrates planet-wide. This adds urgency to our recognition that the birthing and parenting of the next generation requires some new thinking, necessary for a future of ease and prosperity. Fewer babies mean that each one needs a wraparound plan of ensuring vibrant well-being, to produce a high-functioning, productive adult.

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In Aotearoa, the Family Benefits system needs restructuring to cope with an increaasingly specialised job-market at a time of falling birthrates. Our Aotearoa Birth Rights Organisation propose that restructuring begin with the constitututional adopting of six Birth Rights:

The prime Right to financial support from the government as I create and birth a new human.

The Right to be paid for the use of my womb and breasts

The Right to optimum obstetrical health care for myself, and post birth health care for myself and my child.

The Right to choose to raise my child myself

The Right to agree that someone else parent my child

The Right to live in warm, dry, safe, comfortable places as I birth, parent and educate my child

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Aotearoa Birth Rights Organisation sees the prime Right as being the paying, to each pregnant women, a corporate salary of $150,000 in return for doing the most important work in the world, that of creating the next generation. . Payment should be for the first two children only, two being the 'replacement' figure to begin to and maintain the lifting of the birthrate. This corporate salary begins from proof of conception until the child's second birthday. We believe this will create a new generation free from the strictures and humiliations of poverty and ignorance.

 

Structure

The Aotearoa Birth Rights Organisation is non-aligned, and a non-profit. Its activities are concerned solely with the creation of successful structures around pregnancy and birthing, in order to ensure

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a strong, healthy, well-educated next generation.

The Organisation operates through a voluntary Board of

Directors, all of whom unanimously agree with the Organisation's goals.

ABRO's meetings shall be largely held via email and Zoom.

 

 

Public Meetings

Public Meetings will be well publicised, and recorded. They will be called when so indicated, to widen the reach of ABR's message, and will be held both centrally and in the suburbs of cities, and in appropriate halls in rural areas.

 

Activities

With the single goal of achieving the introduction of the above Rights to Aotearoa's Family Benefits system, the Organisation will:

a) Consistently lobby all political parties for their support

b) Consistently publicise the goal of the Organisation to achieve maximum public support.

c) Engage in media interviews both on and offline, and create a website, listing the Rights and goals. .

d) Seek support from related organisations like the Midwifery Council.