The Conservative House Leader says plainly and unequivocally that Woodworth's bill was intended to lead to changes in Canada's abortion laws. Can those naive twits who fell for his denials and suggested there was a good faith discussion to be had about what stage in a pregnancy a woman loses her human rights admit they got suckered yet?
The Progressive Blogosphere suffered a major schism over a SoCon trolling exercise. How would this have played out if Harper hadn't just watched the Wild Rose Party get annihilated? We just had a demonstration that even in the most conservative province in Canada social conservatism is electoral poison and suddenly an incremental attack on women's rights becomes a platform for Harper's government to demonstrate his independence from the social conservative right.
But if Mondays result had been different so would this debate. Woodworth and the SoCons just got thrown under the bus but Harper would have embraced them if he thought he could get away with it.
Friday, April 27, 2012
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