In our columnist section, our team member Barbara Kay writes a sobering column this week from which liberals in Canada will shield their eyes as usual, hoping the matter will magically go away.
Too bad Scott and Laci Peterson weren’t Canadian. Had they been, the Conservatives might have felt emboldened to add a review of abortion policy to their agenda, instead of sweeping fetal rights under a centrist policy rug in order to prove social conservatives aren’t running the show.
[…] And yet, according to Gallup, no more than 37% of Canadians have ever supported abortion on demand, while Environics Research (September, 2004) finds 68% of Canadians want legal protections for fetuses at some point in their development.
I’m one of those 68%. The 1988 Supreme Court demolition of our abortion law left a void that hasn’t been publicly addressed since. Nature abhors a vacuum. In 1988, in my province of Quebec, 16% of pregnancies resulted in abortion. Today, 30% do. You needn’t be a fundamentalist Christian—I am not—to be disturbed by this statistic.
In an unrelated editorial, guest columnist Carey Roberts exposes lots of feminist hidden agendas at the United Nations. It’s really quite astounding what’s going on, as you will see. He’s dubbing it “soft totalitarianism”. As Canadians we are all too familiar with the term “soft” when it comes to foreign policy.
[…] Now we face a new threat, what Italian politician Rocco Buttiglione likes to call “soft totalitarianism.” Buttiglione sees this trend unfolding at the European Union, which regulates the smallest details of life down to the permissible curve of bananas.
Soft totalitarianism has a kinder, gentler face. It pretends to advance the cause of equality. It claims to be working for a gender utopia.
But in practice, soft totalitarianism relies on government-sponsored bribery (known as the welfare state), top-down imposition of laws, rampant distortions of fact, and mass re-education.
The end result of both forms of totalitarianism is exactly the same – concentration of power in the government, economic stagnation, undermining of the family, and curtailment of individual liberties.
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