Harper Alienates Pro-Lifers

Stephen Harper recently announced that a Harper CPC government would not seek to implement a law restricting abortion. As a SoCon member of his Calgary SW riding, he just lost the opportunity to have a lawn-sign on my lawn. If I had a credible, pro-life candidate in my riding, he would also have just lost my vote. I'll have to check out the local candidates more closely.

I understand the lack of a CPC policy (and yes, the LPC is basically the same at the party level, in not seeking a law, despite many pro-life MP's). Unless I'm mistaken, there is a possibility of a private member introducing a pro-life bill, which (at least in the CPC) would receive a free vote. Maybe Harper sees it as his role to consistently make sure people understand the distinction between private members' bills and government bills, but as a constituent of the man himself, I cannot support him as a non-pro-life member of Parliament.

Give me a call when you're ready to discuss it, Mr. Harper.

UPDATE: Much of my consternation comes from something I read awhile back - Harper apparently wrote something several years ago about how he believes 'conservatism' is necessarily linked to social conservatism (which I'm willing to believe). Why, then, would he back down on this much-needed-to-be-debated issue? I've really got to do the blog-thing properly and find the links to include in my posts, hey?