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Old 06-24-2022, 12:16 PM   #419
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I think that Canada's population make up, beyond the Supreme Court of Canada means that Abortion laws in Canada are the third electric rail of politics where if you touch them you die.


The vast majority of Canadians are pro-choice. especially the heavy voting blocks in Toronto and Quebec. So frankly any party that lets say has a majority and tries to repeal abortion laws is smart enough to realize that in the next election, your going to be a fringe party. Its that simple.


However with the makeup of the senate, the law wouldn't be passed, and we don't have real strict constructionist judges in the Canadian Supreme Court, so any removal of abortion for example would be pretty much insta struck down.


America is honestly more split on pro-life vs pro-choice. And the states that are more heavily pro-life are pretty powerful.


Donald Trump stacked the court, and for some reason the Democrats were either stupid or lazy in responding to that in enshrining Abortion into the Constitution.


The mechanism's in the US supreme court is more able to change the living document that is their constitution. I don't think that there is the same mindset in the supreme court here.


To me, I doubt that abortion in Canada is ever going to be overturned, no matter what the party because its political suicide, and its not worth the effort to F around with it because the Canadian institutions would block that move.
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