If you're a politician in Canada and you believe that every Canadian girl/woman should have access to publicly funded abortion services then you need to speak up. You have the privilege of a voice. Use it. And please, adding in the belief that you're personally opposed to abortion is not only irrelevant, but you're fooling yourself and betraying all those girls and women who have made the choice to terminate an unwanted pregnancy by pretending to have superior morals to them.
You don't. Having religious beliefs does not make you morally superior. Oh boy does it not make you morally superior. In fact, having religious beliefs seems to mean defending the right of religious organizations to discriminate against female and LGBTQ citizens, which is objectively morally wrong.
There's only one reasonable position to have on the right of every Canadian girl/woman to terminate an unwanted pregnancy via a publicly funded healthcare provider, which is that you support it. As long as boys and men can impregnate women but not be impregnated themselves, anything less than ensuring the right of girls and women to terminate that pregnancy is discrimination based on sex and a violation of a person's right to not reproduce on behalf of the state.
Well you're the state, sisters and brothers. Stop letting anti-choice politicians and pundits terrorize Canadian girls and women with the threat of abortion re-criminalization.
Speak up, dammit!
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