Being supported by the New Zealand version of the Free Speech Union who say
"Cath Simpson has spent more than 25 years as a registered nurse.
In August, she will appear before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal - not for anything she did caring for a patient, but for a handful of posts she wrote on her own personal account, in her own time.
Those posts were her lawful opinions on matters of public debate - Covid, abortion, gender and politics - the kind of views thousands of New Zealanders hold and share every day.
One member of the public complained, then declined to take the matter any further. That should have been the end of it.
Instead the Nursing Council pressed on, engaging a King's Counsel to argue that a nurse's private political views make her a "risk to public safety."
There is no allegation she harmed anyone. A quarter-century of care now hangs on what she posted online.
This is not what professional regulators were built to do.
Their job is to protect the public from incompetent or dishonest practice - not to police the private opinions of the people they license. Once they cross that line, no professional's voice is safe: not a nurse's, not a teacher's, not yours.
The Free Speech Union is working to end this for good.
We are backing a Regulated Professions Neutrality Bill, led by our Chair Stephen Franks, to draw a hard line these regulators cannot cross - part of our wider work defending professionals across health, law and education."
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