Is Funding Abortion Abroad With Public Money Right?

In the strange files: I notice Liberal blogs with the "Liberal party" button usually have the "Progressive bloggers" button under or above the Lib one.

Assumption being, of course, that liberalism is a natural byproduct of "progress."

Bullshit of course. Progress doesn't belong to any particular ideology.

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Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff (and really, his books are outstanding. I enjoy his intellectualism) is demanding the Conservative party not let "ideology" get in the way of allowing Canada to fund abortion abroad.

Of course, it is an ideological question to a certain extent I would think. The Liberals are operating on the presumption that abortion is a natural and rational activity. Whatever. This doesn't strike me as a good idea for two reasons.

One, it's none of our damn business how other nations run their lives. The notion we can offer "progressive" ideas to "improve" a nation's population issues stinks of paternalism and colonialism - and eugenics. But that's another story altogether.

Two, from my observations, discussions and limited travel, the family as it serves society in other countries outside the West operates differently than ours. The family is no longer the centrifugal force to our society anymore; the state and corporation is. Religious and family institutions have been cast aside. However, in less developed (describe this however you choose) children play a role in the economy in that they usually support their families directly especially where welfare organizations are absent.

I'll stop here lest I begin to over step my boundary of knowledge, but it seems to me we should not be using public money to fund abortions - period.

That includes here in Canada. Why? Because the bottom line is roughly half the continent is split on this issue and to ask one to pay for it is simply ludicrous. The liberals are acting, ironically, like ideological zealots.

Hey. Enlighten me.