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Recognition is in order for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, who have succeeded in taking an important but slumbering national issue and bringing it to the fore.

Problem is, they didn’t mean to. At least, I don’t think they meant to, since nowhere in their long and varied list of election promises did they pledge to divert the country into a debate over abortion.

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Far from it. The Liberals’ usual approach to abortion is to use it as a cudgel against any and all Conservatives they feel are in line for a smearing. Stephen Harper was a regular target. Remember how he was going to put troops in the streets and take away “a woman’s right to choose?” The “hidden agenda” was a regular feature of Liberal attacks, for all nine years that it remained hidden (and remains hidden to this day, now that you mention it).

The Liberals’ usual approach to abortion is to use it as a cudgel against any and all Conservatives they feel are in line for a smearing

Ontario’s Liberals are even now attempting to convince voters that Doug Ford is scheming to rob women of control of their bodies, all because he suggested it might be an idea for parents to be informed if their underaged daughter was planning on ending a pregnancy. Hysteria has become a vital Liberal campaign tool.