Roe v. Wade overturned?

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Absolutely. If you know youre going to be a dyke who starts out adult life swamping trucks with full intentions of being a childless sales manager at an adhesives distributor you may as well be voting not to mention on the conspriction list.
So much more complicated , remember when you go to San Francisco you love the one your with . We have come a long way from burn the bra . But hey those yoga pants can look nice .
 
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Justin Trudeau reached back into the Liberal bag of tricks on Saturday and warned that only he can protect access to abortion.

Not that there is any pressing move to change the legal status of abortion in Canada, but Trudeau has had some bad polling numbers of late, so he obviously wants to scare as many voters as possible.
And on the subject of piss poor polling numbers…Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have decided that they no longer need to focus on Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, they need to focus on Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives. They’ve also determined that taking a radical and extreme position on abortion is the path to electoral success.

At a news conference in Toronto on Monday, Singh said that when his party gets its next opposition day motion, it will stand up against the Conservatives on abortion. It’s nothing but pure political grandstanding, but that’s all Singh really has these days.
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First off, the Conservatives are not the party in power and won’t be for some time because Singh and the NDP have been propping up the Trudeau Liberals. Secondly, there is no opposition day scheduled for the NDP to debate their motion because the House of Commons is effectively shut down while probing alleged corruption with the Liberal government’s now-abolished “green slush fund.”

Still, Singh has his sights set on Poilievre and the Conservatives, which perhaps tells you that he also thinks Trudeau is done.

“We know with the growing worries about what’s going on in the states, attacks on the right to choose are becoming more and more prevalent,” Singh said at his news conference.

Ah, importing U.S. politics into Canada. If you thought that was just a Trudeau move, then think again.

Poilievre has been clear; he has no plans to introduce abortion legislation if elected.
That doesn’t matter to Singh, who said that a Conservative MP had spoken at a Florida church that is anti-choice and that it was worrisome. I’m not sure if Singh noticed the bald guy standing to his left and clapping during the news conference, but that man was Norm Di Pasquale, serial candidate for office and serial loser, except when he was elected as a Catholic school board trustee.

In case Singh doesn’t realize it, the Catholic Church is quite opposed to abortion and I’m willing to bet that in addition to being a Catholic school trustee, Di Pasquale has been to mass more than once. Of course, Singh’s own Sikh religion isn’t exactly pro-abortion either, but that doesn’t appear to bother him.

While attacking the Conservatives, who aren’t in power, on the issue of abortion, Singh showed another level of hypocrisy. He lamented the closing of an abortion clinic in New Brunswick due to a lack of provincial funding and promised to use the Canada Health Act to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

Of course, the clinic that closed was a private abortion clinic, which apparently is the only kind of private health care the NDP supports. If there is a private clinic giving you access to cataract surgery or a hip replacement, the NDP will be opposed. But they fully support private abortion clinics, including the one steps from Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

The NDP pointed to several bills and motions that they say show Poilievre doesn’t support the “right to choose.” The problem with that phrase is that no court in Canada has ruled there is a “right to choose,” that’s an American expression.😳

Secondly, Poilievre voted in favour of two bills that would have made assaulting a woman while she was pregnant an aggravating factor at sentencing. He also voted for a bill that would make coercing a woman into getting an abortion a crime. It came about after a Winnipeg woman was killed by her partner for refusing to get an abortion.

Supporting a bill like that seems to be a step too far for the radical NDP.

Singh and the NDP spent more than two years propping up the Liberal government. Over that time, the Liberals fell in the polls to the point that the NDP is ahead of the Liberals outside of Quebec.

That didn’t happen because the NDP gained more voter support, it happened because the Liberals fell and voters flocked to the Conservatives. So now Singh is looking to attack Poilievre on any issue he can, even one that shows his own hypocrisy.
 

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And on the subject of piss poor polling numbers…Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have decided that they no longer need to focus on Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, they need to focus on Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives. They’ve also determined that taking a radical and extreme position on abortion is the path to electoral success.

At a news conference in Toronto on Monday, Singh said that when his party gets its next opposition day motion, it will stand up against the Conservatives on abortion. It’s nothing but pure political grandstanding, but that’s all Singh really has these days.
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First off, the Conservatives are not the party in power and won’t be for some time because Singh and the NDP have been propping up the Trudeau Liberals. Secondly, there is no opposition day scheduled for the NDP to debate their motion because the House of Commons is effectively shut down while probing alleged corruption with the Liberal government’s now-abolished “green slush fund.”

Still, Singh has his sights set on Poilievre and the Conservatives, which perhaps tells you that he also thinks Trudeau is done.

“We know with the growing worries about what’s going on in the states, attacks on the right to choose are becoming more and more prevalent,” Singh said at his news conference.

Ah, importing U.S. politics into Canada. If you thought that was just a Trudeau move, then think again.

Poilievre has been clear; he has no plans to introduce abortion legislation if elected.
That doesn’t matter to Singh, who said that a Conservative MP had spoken at a Florida church that is anti-choice and that it was worrisome. I’m not sure if Singh noticed the bald guy standing to his left and clapping during the news conference, but that man was Norm Di Pasquale, serial candidate for office and serial loser, except when he was elected as a Catholic school board trustee.

In case Singh doesn’t realize it, the Catholic Church is quite opposed to abortion and I’m willing to bet that in addition to being a Catholic school trustee, Di Pasquale has been to mass more than once. Of course, Singh’s own Sikh religion isn’t exactly pro-abortion either, but that doesn’t appear to bother him.

While attacking the Conservatives, who aren’t in power, on the issue of abortion, Singh showed another level of hypocrisy. He lamented the closing of an abortion clinic in New Brunswick due to a lack of provincial funding and promised to use the Canada Health Act to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

Of course, the clinic that closed was a private abortion clinic, which apparently is the only kind of private health care the NDP supports. If there is a private clinic giving you access to cataract surgery or a hip replacement, the NDP will be opposed. But they fully support private abortion clinics, including the one steps from Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

The NDP pointed to several bills and motions that they say show Poilievre doesn’t support the “right to choose.” The problem with that phrase is that no court in Canada has ruled there is a “right to choose,” that’s an American expression.😳

Secondly, Poilievre voted in favour of two bills that would have made assaulting a woman while she was pregnant an aggravating factor at sentencing. He also voted for a bill that would make coercing a woman into getting an abortion a crime. It came about after a Winnipeg woman was killed by her partner for refusing to get an abortion.

Supporting a bill like that seems to be a step too far for the radical NDP.

Singh and the NDP spent more than two years propping up the Liberal government. Over that time, the Liberals fell in the polls to the point that the NDP is ahead of the Liberals outside of Quebec.

That didn’t happen because the NDP gained more voter support, it happened because the Liberals fell and voters flocked to the Conservatives. So now Singh is looking to attack Poilievre on any issue he can, even one that shows his own hypocrisy.
Funny that if he came out in favour of the truckers and forced an election his NDP would be the official opposition and Singh would be living in Stornaway with no concerns about his pension .
 

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Tell me again how abortion is perfectly okay and no women will ever die if they don't get one when they need it?
They had miscarriages. Read your damn articles.
 

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There are two good reasons why Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are once again accusing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives of wanting to take away abortion rights. First, the Liberals are desperate. Second, as a political ploy, it works.

The federal government announced this week that new legislation will require pregnancy counselling centres, many of which are faith-based, to tell patients up front whether they provide access to abortion and birth-control services. Those that do not provide that information could lose their charitable status.

The announcement has no real purpose other than to provide the Liberals with an opportunity to bring up the subject of abortion rights and then to bash the Conservatives.
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“Many Canadians are rightfully worried that a Conservative government would not protect” a woman’s right to choose, Liberal MP Judy Sgro declared Wednesday in the House. “It is alarming that women’s rights and freedoms are under attack by the Conservative Party.”

Mr. Trudeau emphatically agreed. “While we are protecting women’s freedom of choice, the Conservative Party is trying to roll it back.”

The accusation is false. You could call it a canard, a fabrication, even a bald-faced lie, though such language would be unparliamentary.

Instead, Mr. Poilievre denounced “the Prime Minister’s tin-foil-hat conspiracy theories and misinformation.”

He reminded the House that “It has been our 20-year-long policy in the Conservative Party that there will be no restrictions on women’s reproductive choices or on abortion.”

But the Liberals will, of course, ignore this fact, just as they have ignored it in the past.
For as long as the Conservative Party of Canada has existed, the Liberals have accused it of harbouring a hidden agenda to take away a woman’s right to choose. The Grits are particularly prone to making this accusation when they are behind in the polls.
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When Liberal prime minister Paul Martin found himself at risk of losing to Conservative leader Stephen Harper in the 2004 election campaign, the Liberals released one of the most effective, and most vicious, attack ads ever aired in this country.

As well as claiming that the Conservatives planned to buy aircraft carriers and abandon public health care, one segment showed two young women huddled in a hallway, while the female narrator declared that Mr. Harper “won’t protect a woman’s right to choose.” That ad helped turn the Liberal campaign around, securing a minority-government win.

Throughout Mr. Harper’s two minority governments, Liberals warned of a hidden agenda to limit abortion rights that Conservatives would impose if they won a majority government. In 2011, the Conservatives won a majority.
1730551097380.jpegThere was no hidden agenda.

That didn’t stop the Liberals, once back in government under Mr. Trudeau, from attacking Conservative leaders Andrew Scheer and then Erin O’Toole of having a hidden, anti-abortion agenda, even though both of them repeatedly vowed they would never permit such legislation.

The attacks contributed to Mr. Scheer losing in 2019 and Mr. O’Toole losing in 2021.

Today, the Prime Minister is deeply unpopular – way down in the polls, with many of his own MPs in revolt against him. What’s a Liberal to do at a time like this? Just what you’d expect: accuse the Tories of a hidden agenda on abortion.
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(Jagmeet Singh’s NDP also likes to jump on this mendacious bandwagon.)
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It is absolutely true that some members of the Conservative caucus oppose abortion rights. But they submit to the party’s pro-choice stand because they know that eight-in-ten Canadians support a woman’s right to choose, according to the polls.

That support is, if anything, likely to grow, in the wake of the American Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade, which protected abortion rights. Horror stories are emerging in the U.S. of women dying because doctors refused to treat them for fear of prosecution if they aborted a fetus.

This is why there is all-party support in the House for a woman’s right to choose. That is why abortion rights shouldn’t be an issue.
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But the Liberals are paying the price for public weariness with the flat economy, the housing shortage, the consequences of high inflation and interest rates. Their only hope is to invent bogeymen, and abortion is their favourite bogeyman of all.

The longer the Liberals languish in the polls, the more of this we’re likely to get.
 
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