I think each side tends wants to have the right conversation about abortion as dictated by them. In Canada the summer jobs program required all churches and other parties wanting to participate to swear on an inclusive and diversity statement against, among other things, abortion. Churches, by law, have the right to belief whatever religious ideas they want, hate speech notwithstanding. The job programs were not largely religious in nature, either—just community outreach to give teens some summer jobs. There was a vote recently, and an MP on the Liberal party decided to vote against that and was pretty severely punished by being stripped of his chair. This wasn't a party troublemaker, btw... 3 decades of mostly towing the party line. Also note this vote wasn't about a law or anything, just the right to theoretically oppose an idea the liberal caucus had decided wasn't going to be permitted. Pretty shitty.
I realize the states isn't nearly as progressive as Canada so the conversation is much different (abortions for all, bitch)... but the Liberal party up here has been getting tighter and tighter in its authoritarian stance on these types of things since Trudeau took office. It's a step too far.
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