Really? A friend was saying something similar the other day, but I’m pretty sceptical. Abortion is just not the same cultural lightning rod here, and seeing Bernie Finn get dumped on by Liberals the other day for his post suggests this is a marginal position even on the right here. Even Abbott, one of the most prominent anti-abortion politicians of the last generation, got to be PM and still wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole.swoop42 wrote:I've read that polls consistently show between 60 to 70 percent of Americans support a woman's right to abortion and yet 100% of these Republicans seemingly don't.
So much for the separation between church and state.
This should be a wake up call for every Australian also who respects a women's right to choose as it's pretty obvious that organised religion in this country (just like America) is increasingly looking to infiltrate political parties (the Coalition in particular) with candidates to stay relevant and influential as their congregation numbers fall year on year.
The fact is that even in the far more religiously conservative US, there’s simply no way they could get a ban passed electorally; as you say, the majority of the population are opposed, so the only viable tactic is to sneak it through an ideologically appointed supreme court, which doesn’t exist here. If anything, Christian political lobbyists have gone steadily backwards here over the past two decades. So I don’t see any reason to be worried about it happening here.
