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Cowardice breeds stupidity: Abortion and Alberta politics
LifeSiteNews.com – April 16, 2012
Doing damage to the pro-life cause
By David Krayden
Make no mistake, if I were living in Alberta I would be voting Wildrose this election and supporting an old friend, Danielle Smith, for premier. Make no mistake again, Smith has done tremendous damage to the pro-life movement through her recent comments that essentially aim to elevate abortion to the sanctified level of sacrosanct human right. This is vitally ironic, as Smith leads a socially conservative party base in the most socially conservative province in Canada.
But let us examine what she said.
“When our members elected me they knew they were electing a candidate that was pro-choice and pro-gay marriage,” Smith was quoted this week at an all-candidates forum in her riding in Okotoks. “The only way we’re going to be able to become a mainstream, big-tent conservative party capable of forming government is to focus on the issues that matter to Albertans. If I am elected premier, a Wildrose government will not be legislating in areas of morality.”
OK, Smith has every right to declare her personal views on abortion and same-sex marriage. She might even be applauded for her honesty. But she merits no congratulations for declaring that a “mainstream party” must be pro-abortion or that this issue doesn’t matter to Albertans, or most Canadians for that matter. Then she makes an even more grievous error by declaring that her potential government will not legislate in “areas of morality.”
Really? You will lead a government that refuses to make moral decisions? Shouldn’t morality be the basis of every government decision in one form or another? Should politicians, premiers or prime ministers be promulgating policy in a moral vacuum? To rule in favour of abortion is just as much a moral decision as to rule in favour of life. We would argue that the morally preferable choice is to support life.
Read the complete article here.