Canada has no law limiting abortion – none at all. It is legal to murder a full-term baby while it is still in the womb and illegal to murder it five minutes later when it is outside of the womb. Jason Kenney, conservative immigration minister, is supporting a motion that would require parliament to study scientific evidence that could help us decide when human life begins.
The NDP, the party that would have us believe it defends the weakest in society, instead, champions a woman’s right to choose – to kill the weakest of the weak: her baby. Moreover, the NDP wants to suppress any discussion on the issue.
Evidently the NDP is not so sure of its position that it is willing to subject it to scrutiny. The reason is that, in their heart of hearts, everyone – even NDP politicians – knows that abortion is murder and the only reason for it being legal is that we are a society so given over to self-absorption, so immersed in narcissism, so solipsistic, we are willing to sacrifice our own children on the altar of hedonistic self-interest: much as ancient pagans burned their offspring as a propitiation to Moloch.
In fairness to the NDP – not that they would reciprocate – Harper and the entire liberal party are just as bad.
From here:
OTTAWA — The NDP hammered Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Tuesday after the cabinet minister said he will support a motion calling for a discussion about “when life begins.”
NDP status of women critic MP Niki Ashton says Kenney’s motives for supporting Tory MP Stephen Woodworth’s motion are dubious.
“The question here is why he is choosing to stand up in opposition to his government’s wishes on a motion that is so fundamental to women’s rights,” Ashton said
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However, Ashton and her caucus colleague Francoise Boivin say the motion should have been smacked down before it reached the Commons because it challenges a woman’s right to choose.
The other day my wife asked me what I would do if our teenage daughter got pregnant as a result of rape. I replied that I would encourage her to allow the baby to live, and if it were her decision to than raise the child that we should do all that we could to support that decision, and that if it were her decision to hand the child over to adoption that we should support that decision also. My wife then enquired about abortion. To which I replied that I could not condone the execution of a child because of something that its father did. The child did nothing wrong and thus would not deserve a death sentence. Punish the rapist. I have no problem with locking away a rapist in an oubliette, and I have no problem with surgical castration (a man who cannot keep control of it does not deserve to have it). But for the Love of God, and for the sake of justice, do not harm the child.
Like you, I have never understood the position of those who say that they support abortion – “Of course!” – if the preganancy was due to rape. I even hear those who consider themselves orthodox Catholics mouthing this ridiculous sentiment (some say it was originally circulated by the dissenting Jesuits).
Was the so-conceived child guilty of this crime? Even otherwise sensible people seem quite willing to execute an entirely innocent unborn child for the sin and crime of its father. I have always found that stance to be the height of lunancy.
Is it so terribly unreasonable to expect that any woman who becomes pregnant, whether through rape or consent or her own carelessness, would give that child a safe and cared-for nine months in her womb, and then turn the child over to one of the many adoptive couples anxiously waiting for such a child in our society? None of these women can spare just nine months to nurture a human life? I find this issue the most pressing “homeless” problem of them all, though the majority of the supposed social-justice advocates these days are vehemently in favour of turning unborn babies out of wombs.
Kind of an ironic position for a party that takes so many “proggressive” social justice positions don’t you think?
Given their penchant for defending the disadvantaged you would think an unborn child would be an easy fit for their paradigm.
Odd party. They will never get my support.
Let’s bring back the CCF.
Maybe we can find a cloning machine to bring back Tommy Douglas while we’re at it.