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The premier gives an answer your scribbler doesn’t expect.

The question: Is there a place for pro-life folks in the Alberta NDP?

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It’s the right time to ask.

After all, the Notley NDP are all over the United Conservatives, banging the drum and saying the opposition party peddles extreme social conservatism and they’ll be that way if they ever get their hands on the levers of power.

And when the NDP make this claim the A-word comes up a whole lot.

Abortion.

What the United Conservatives are allegedly planning to do about abortion is never spelled out by the NDP. But it is enough to say the A-word to get some fear and loathing going in certain circles.

Let’s back up to last week for just a sec.

This talk about abortion all came out because yours truly wanted to have a word with Nicole Mooney, the NDP candidate in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake.

People there are voting Thursday to pick their new member of the legislature.