Big Blue Wave's Comments
Harper's Conservative party has realized that doing something about abortion, or even being perceived as doing something, is a POLITICAL LIABILITY. It's a liability because there are so few 'so-cons' out there. You can't win an election based on so-con voters. Look at what happens to every candidate of the Family Coalition Party (or whatever they are called now).
Pro-lifers have to face reality and stop acting as if Conservatives owe them something.
Conservatives win because of so-con votes.
There are quite a few so-cons out there. They number in the millions in Canada. That's a not a marginal number of votes. 1/3 of Canadians believe abortion should be either banned or allowed only in cases of rape and incest. That's 10 million Canadians.
"Pro-lifers have to face reality and stop acting as if Conservatives owe them something."
Yeah, they're OWED our votes. *roll eyes*.
When you vote for a politician, you are owed something. It's called tending to your base.
I know my own Conservative MP supports this bill.
I think the problem in Canada is that the church--Protestant and Catholic--is too afraid of being labelled American. So we'd rather be irrelevant than seen to be something that can be ridiculed, the way the Religious Right is in The States.
So the church ignores the Human Rights Commissions, even though they're prosecuting our own. And we don't support socially conservative agendas, because we don't want to be seen to mix politics and religion.
So we'd rather have politics where people don't vote according to their consciences. How are we supposed to vote, then? That makes no sense, if you actually thought about it.
It's just sad. And the apathy is pathetic.
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I question this notion that there are "millions" of so-cons in Canada.
Answering a one sentence question in a poll does not make someone a social conservative.
Look at the attendance at events like Lifechain.
In Toronto, you are looking at, using a generous estimate, a few thousand people, probably under 4000.
Look at how many people are involved in direct pro-life work in Toronto, whether its writing, sidewalk counselling, etc. The number is well, probably about a dozen.
In a city of 3-4 million people, a politician can't rely on this tiny number of people to get elected.
Pro-life work is something that must be done. But we also have to be realistic.
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