Nearly all intellectual Canadians know of Mark Steyn—one of Canada’s great columnists who writes in leading publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K.
I greatly admire his writing and thinking.
His latest column appears today in the London (U.K.) Daily Telegraph online. It happens to largely echo a part of what I said in my Sunday column following the Conservative Party’s wrong-headed move to the left over the past weekend, and its refusal to address abortion head on like conservatives should.
Here’s a snippet but do yourself a favor and read the whole thing (4 minutes).
I am, as Tony Blair might say, deeply passionately personally deeply personally opposed to abortion. But, unlike him, I think it ought to be an election issue.
Not because of my personal beliefs: I happen to believe a lot of what we call “late-term abortion” is in reality early-term infanticide, but, if you don’t accept that that’s a human life that’s being destroyed, my deeply personal passionate beliefs aren’t likely to sway you one way or another. That’s where so-called progressive politicians such as Blair and John Kerry have it all backwards: the point about abortion is not that it’s a “matter of conscience” for individuals to “wrestle with”, but that it’s a crucial part of the central political challenge of our time.
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