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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Judging by the polls, economic issues matter more to Canadians than social issues. Go back in these threads even a year or two and you can see posters claiming the CPC have no future because the only people who vote for them are old. And yet here we are with Conservatives leading in all age groups, with their lead among 30-44 year olds wider than their lead among voters 60+.
Canadians parties didn’t have ‘witch hunts’ around abortion until recently. Ten year ago, anti-abortion MPs were allowed to sit in the Liberal caucus. Canadians had ready access to reproductive services and that access was not threatened by a few members in parliament. So what exactly is the problem to be solved by witch hunts, besides indulging in American-style culture warring and purity policing?
80 per cent of Canadians support access to abortion. 11 per cent are opposed. Even among Conservative supporters, fewer than a quarter wants abortion access restricted. This isn’t the U.S. - there’s no chance of legislation restricting abortion passing. Raising it as a political issue in this country is nothing but cynical wedge politics.
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This is the boogey man argument in a nut shell. Every political party knows that reproductive rights are the third rail and if you touch it you lose the next election.
Same with going backwards on LGBTQ rights, the quickest way to be a one party government is to attack those social rights, and we know it would be impossible to get the legislation through without the courts striking it down.
My biggest argument is that the Liberals have had the numbers and probably the will of the nation enough to enshrine abortion rights permanently, but refuse to do it.
Its too juicy of a wedge item not to keep it under pretend threat.