Justin Trudeau cannot condemn sex-selection abortions. Of course he can’t. When you give a blanket endorsement of “a woman’s right to choose,” then you can’t condemn gendercide. Because that would be, you know, logically inconsistent. And therefore gendercide somehow becomes an expression of a Charter right. (And no, again, there is no Charter right to abortion.) And so, it somehow seems it’s a woman’s right to have female babies killed in Canada because they are female.
Is your head spinning?
MARISSA SEMKIW: A woman comes to you. She says she’s pregnant with a girl and she wants to terminate the life of the child because it’s a girl. What would you say to her?
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: My position has been very clear. The Liberal Party is the party standing up for people’s rights. And the Liberal Party will always be the party of the Charter. So we will continue to stand up for people’s rights and not legislate them away.
MARISSA SEMKIW: So to be clear, you wouldn’t discourage her from having an abortion because it’s a girl?
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: My role as the leader of the Liberal Party is to make sure that Canadian legislation respects peoples rights and that’s what I will continue to do.
MARISSA SEMKIW: Yesterday you said you were happy with the status quo on abortion. But right now the status quo is that it’s perfectly fine to abort a child because it’s a girl. Do you have no qualms with that?
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: I will leave discussions like that between a woman and the health professionals that she encounters. I don’t think the government should be in the business of legislating away people’s rights. And that’s why the Liberal Party is steadfast in this position.
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Margaret’s child.
Whoa, Kanga, that was harsh.
I’m just wondering if he really thinks he can possibly win votes with this one. I’m getting this sinking feeling in my stomach that he actually believes he is taking a principled stand on this. I wonder if anyone has ever actually explained the reasoning behind the prolife stance to him, because, from where I stand, it really doesn’t look like he understands the prolife viewpoint at all. And not being able to understand the views of those you disagree with is not a sign of a strong leader at all.
I’ve never thought of Justin Trudeau as terribly original. In fact, he strikes me as the kind of politician who doesn’t necessarily have strong personal values, but he longs for power and popularity – the kind (rare, I know) that will go wherever the winds of public opinion take them. I know that Canadians are split on abortion, but Trudeau may not be completely crazy to issue his dictat (witness the NDP immediately scrambling to copy-cat his radicalism). The cultural war is getting more heated, and there is definitely a sizeable segment of society that Trudeau is catering to. Hopefully, not large enough to get him to the Prime Minister’s chair. If that happens, then I would almost pack my bags for another country, but there is nowhere to go anymore.