Abortion: The Debate Politicians Are Afraid To Reopen

What are they so afraid of? Asks Kevin Libin in his National Post article.

Opposition MPs denounced as "extreme" International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda's announcement that the government would promote its plan to get the G8 behind maternal - and child-health initiatives in the developing world, but would not include abortion funding. It was imposing an "ideological pro-life agenda" on the world, Liberal critic Glen Pearson said. The Tories were, according to a Montreal columnist, "reigniting the abortion debate," as if that were, by definition, a bad thing.

In reality, for 20 years, there has been no meaningful debate over abortion law in this country, and this tempest over the Tories' decision not to add new funding for foreign abortions seems unlikely to change that. Canada is the only democratic country on Earth with nothing to say, legislatively, about abortion, and all major federal parties have vowed to leave it that way.

In a country with no rules, and a political class evidently terrified of even considering any, the status quo silence seems bound to persist, even if a large number of voters preferred it didn't. If Canadians, at least publicly, are incapable of even tolerating an edifying discussion about something like Mr. Harper's maternal health initiative, so loosely connected to Canadian abortion rights, without falling into predictably paralyzing positions and rhetoric, there seems little hope of us ever seriously confronting it at all.
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Perhaps a more instructive poll, however, was Angus Reid's last year, which found 92% of Canadians unaware that the country had no laws at all regulating the roughly 90,000 abortions that occur annually. With only paralysis and ignorance to go by, it's impossible to know how certain policies might resonate were our governments to consider them.

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H/t Run With Life

Opponents of the abortion debate claim that abortion is a "woman's right", a right which they believe is absolute and therefore - should not be debatable. But what about the baby's right to life?

They don't just dismiss the unborn child and its rights, they pretend that the children who are the victims of abortions don’t exist at all. Like some kind of fairy tale dream world where women have "procedures" but let's not talk about what the "procedure" is doing, or how it is done. And please, please, whatever you do, don't show us any pictures of the "procedure".

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That's why the pro-aborts are so afraid of the debate. The debate will make it clear that there are two people involved - the mother and the baby. Once fetal rights are brought into the spotlight, how can they maintain their position that the baby's life is not valuable enough, that the personal convenience of the mother should prevail? They know that their ideology has no chance against scientific facts, which make it clear that the unborn is not a "blob of tissue", but a living human being, just like any of us.

They know that once those who are unaware of the status-quo start finding out the ugly truth about what abortion really is - their cause is lost. So they do their best to keep the politicians afraid of reopening the debate. But even that strategy of theirs can't really last for much longer.