Abortion, War and MAiD

I like Maxime Bernier. I ran as a PPC candidate in 2019 hoping he could lead Canada in a direction that aligns with my past campaigns as a Libertarian Advocate for Less Government.

REALLY MAX?

I can’t understand why Maxime Bernier is opening yet another debate on abortion. It is a no-win topic and all it does is turn up the heat on simmering feelings that never get resolved.

Government regulators and political leaders make life-and-death decisions all the time. The question is, should they be allowed to create their impersonal,  ‘one size fits all’ rules that are always applied to individual human beings who must struggle with the actual life and death decisions, and personally suffer the consequences?

Abortion is a life-and-death decision no less than when Joe Biden decides to give a billion USD in military aid to Ukraine. This money enables the killing of more Russian soldiers who would otherwise be at home with their families if political leaders were not so prone to chest-beating ego trips. Biden’s willingness to spend public money so flagrantly and generously on questionable political causes is despicable.

MAiD is another hot topic these days.

My father-in-law accepted MAiD six years ago.  It was solely his decision at end-state cancer. MAiD had only been legal in Ontatio for a couple of years when he did so. Many people consider suicide to be a desperate and cowardly way out of a horrible situation, but yet it is no longer considered so when the government approves it with a set of MAiD regulations. Go figure.

Religions also take sides.

The weight of influence by religious authorities cannot be ignored because morality, mixed with faith, apparently brings a knock-out punch to the issue in the minds of the faithful.

It has always confused me when a person of faith will declare a loss to be “God’s will”, yet that same person will vote to place life and death decisions in the hands of complete stangers - elected politicians and unelected regulators. Wasn’t prayer supposed to be the vehicle by which the faithful can seek clemency from the Final Arbitor of life and death decisions - God? And how often has that strategy worked for people in crisis given the current war in Ukraine and the millions of lives lost in past religious wars?

All of this ‘sucking and blowing’ decision-making on life and death matters by elected officials, religious authorities and public regulators belies the reality behind all such matters. The pro-life and pro-choice factions will never agree regardless of how often the topic is publicly aired and debated. The pro and con arguments have been known ‘forever’, but logic never wins when the issue is deeply emotional.

Motivated by political gain?

Political candidates usually consider the political calculus of taking on a thorny topic before doing so. Evidently Max believes that the abortion topic is one in which he can make political gains. His decision to exploit this contentious topic is not flattering to his character. Max may raise his public profile at the centre of this maelstrom-generating topic, but he will do so at the expense of the many citizens for whom discussions of abortion are like ripping a scab off a festering wound.

I expected more from Max.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/maxime-bernier-to-announce-re-opening-of-abortion-debate-in-canada-if-he-wins-june-by-election/