LILLEY: Trudeau shows hypocrisy in arguing for woman’s right to choose

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There was a sudden outbreak of help for bodily autonomy on Tuesday as Canadian politicians stated that medical choices had been as much as the person and authorities had no position.

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No, it wasn’t a gaggle of Canadian politicians saying that vaccine mandates on this nation had been unsuitable, it was Canadians reacting to an American court docket choice on abortion.

Really, they had been reacting to information that the U.S. Supreme Court docket may change abortion jurisprudence in the USA. All of the sudden, although, the phrase was in every single place with politicians reminding Canadians that girls have the correct to decide on.

“The suitable to decide on is a girl’s proper and a girl’s proper alone,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

“A girl’s proper to decide on is hers alone,” stated International Minister Melanie Joly.

Ontario’s NDP chief, Andrea Horwath, about to kick off the provincial election marketing campaign, went additional.

“We’ve a proper to regulate our personal our bodies, and to make our personal selections about our well being. This isn’t negotiable. Not now, not ever,” Horwath said.

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Now, it’s apparent that these politicians had been speaking about abortion but when we swap the subject to vaccine necessities, all this speak of “proper to decide on” will disappear shortly. Thousands and thousands of Canadians argued that deciding to be vaccinated, or not, was a choice they alone ought to get to make or that it ought to be between them and their physician.

That wasn’t how Trudeau, Joly, Horwath or numerous different politicians noticed issues.

These similar politicians argued towards bodily autonomy, not only for folks doing delicate jobs but additionally for folks working alone at residence. Jane from the accounting division in a federal forms who spent almost two years working from her basement was advised to turn out to be absolutely vaccinated or lose her job.

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On this occasion, Jane had no proper to decide on and there was no progressive politician standing up for her proper to have management over her personal physique.

Abortions and vaccinations are usually not the identical factor, but they’re each invasive medical procedures. To argue that one is a purely private and particular person choice however the different requires the group to become involved and power choices on folks isn’t intellectually constant.

Except your thought of being intellectually constant is selecting what works out finest for the political occasion you help.

But the identical prime minister who proudly says he’ll stand for a lady’s proper to decide on advised girls who selected to not get vaccinated that they might lose their jobs, or their capacity to journey by airplane or practice. This sudden want to help particular person selection in medical decision-making isn’t primarily based on some underlying philosophy — there is no such thing as a guideline, that is pure partisan politics.

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It’s ugly, it’s crass however it’s absolutely accepted by a lot of the chattering courses in Canada who agree with Trudeau on each counts and don’t wish to query their very own worldview lest they see the muse is constructed upon sand.

As I’ve written beforehand, Trudeau is utilizing the American abortion choice purely for political achieve.

Our political system is totally different than what they’ve in the USA, our judicial system is totally different, our tradition is totally different. That doesn’t cease politicians like Trudeau from importing American points, like abortion or weapons, into our political discourse to attempt to safe votes.

That’s all this outpouring of help for giving folks selection in medical procedures is about. If the U.S. Supreme Court docket issued a ruling that folks ought to have the selection on being vaccinated, he wouldn’t say a phrase, at the least not in help.

Take all these statements of help for what they’re — low cost political techniques, nothing extra.

blilley@postmedia.com