When The Going Gets Tough.....

.....The Cons Get Running

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Hmmmmmm......

Despite what KLR-Vu has been spewing, it looks like the focus groups told 'em the Canuckistanian people are not quite ready to abandon a woman's right to choose, especially if push-comes-to-shove during the rough and tumble of a supposed upcoming election campaign.

How else to explain the following, as reported by Brodie Fenlon of the Globe and (nolongerEmpire)Mail?

The Harper government cut loose a contentious private member's bill that would have made it a crime to take the life of a fetus just as election speculation hits fever pitch.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced Monday that the government will draft a new bill to replace Bill C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act, so that it closes the debate about fetal rights and focuses instead on penalizing criminals who harm pregnant women.

The act, which was introduced last year by Tory MP Ken Epp of Edmonton and passed second reading in the spring, would make it a separate offence for killing an unborn child when a pregnant woman is slain.

Pro-abortion advocates have denounced it for giving the fetus some human rights. Last week, the Canadian Medical Association voted to oppose the bill, and Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion spoke out against it, challenging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to clarify his own views on abortion......

Of course, there's also a second point to consider.

Which is that if you give the base all they want, when they (think they) want it, they just might lose their appetite for the fight (see: Marriage, Same Sex).

OK?


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