...The politicians vote differently. It was just a week ago when Philadelphia city council passed a resolution declaring abortion as "final but critical option for women". The resolution, drafted by the "planned parenthood" and introduced by a pro-abortion Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, pledged to defend the above mentioned "critical option" and called on other cities to follow suit. It was passed in a 9 to 8 vote on June 7th.
Obviously, this was a politically correct resolution. Most of the Councilmen who supported it apparently believed that the resolution strikes a cord with most of the people in the city and that those who think otherwise are nothing but tiny minority that could just be ignored. They were wrong.
The resolution sparkled an angry response from the pro-lifers. Thousands of people expressed their outrage over the City Council's decision. The councilmen found out that a city can not just be classified as a city of poor choice when there are hundreds of thousands of people in this city who are pro-life. So the Councilmen have backed down. The vote, which slid by at 9 to 8 just a week ago, was overturned by a 13 to 4 vote yesterday. Philadelphia is no longer a city of poor choice.
Let it be a lesson for all of us, here in Canada. Politicians are vote hunters. Just before the last election Stephen Harper promised to block any debate on abortion in his attempt to lure some "centrist" voters. It was clear for him, just as it's clear for many other politicians in Ottawa - there's no political cost of ignoring pro-lifers. But if hundreds of thousands make it clear that fetal rights can no longer be ignored in Canada, we may eventually see not only the Conservatives but even some high-ranked Liberals voting for the right to life.
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