Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on Abortion

The Hour's George Stroumboulopoulos sits down with Liberal Leader Michael Igantieff and discusses reproductive rights, abortion, and how the Liberals recently lost their own motion on the Harper governments maternal health initiative.

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[3510211]

Who's "rights" are you protecting by not allowing a woman to have an abortion?

[metyzermanfan19]

@countzero1972 So is the CPC.

[3510211]

@venomousspiderwookie LOL if you actually think that fetuses are human beings

[venomousspiderwookie]

@3510211 The right of the most innocent and defenseless not to be murdered, perhaps?

[LasagnaIsGood]

LOL, terminate pregnancy?! If you support it, say it as it is - ABORTION

[cutegirliegirla]

@3510211 simple none at all , all it does is reduce woman rights

[ammarios]

@ammarios Unite the left and next election there could very well be an NDP/Liberal/Green landslide majority government for the next number of decades and elections..And those who "fear that the more conservative faction of the Liberals will bleed to the Tories"..LET THEM..they were right-wingers all along AND the same was said about the Progressive Conservative-Reform merger and yes, the less-conservative Tories bled to the Liberals but they still won elections(proof: look at who's our govt now)

[ammarios]

@ammarios The same applies to your left-wing voters..the have rightfully moved to the NDP (why vote for a "left-wing-light" party when you can just vote for the ACTUAL left-wing party? ... The Liberals right now either need to stick to their "centrist-with-a-slight-social­-left-leaning' voter base and principles OR unite with the NDP and the Greens to bring the left-of-centre together .... Otherwise, the LPC will have outlived its usefulness ...

[ammarios]

@ammarios And now that you've moved so far to the right, you've lost your entire left-wing supporters (like myself) to the NDP , and didn't get the support you were hoping for from more conservative voters (because they just decided to vote for the ACTUAL right-wing party...not "right-wing-light") ...

As a result, those who have tried to move the Liberal Party more to the right (Turner, Martin) LOST elections AND tore the party apart...

[ammarios]

@ammarios My advice to the Liberals is: Notice that EVERY TIME you elected a more right-wing/conservative leader, you LOST the election (John Turner and his ideological heir PauL Martin)..WHY? Because in your attempt to appeal to conservative voters, you don't realize that conservatives would rather vote for the REAL conservatives...However when you had leaders like Trudeau (and his ideological heir Jean Chretien) you won HUGE majorities because you stuck to your centre-to-centre-left voter base

[ammarios]

@ammarios And I WILL say, as much as I detest Paul Martin (if you read up on the Liberal Party, you will see that he has been the cause of SO MUCH internal fighting and divisiveness), I will give him credit for being an excellent Finance Minister who set the stage for Canada's relative economic well-being during the recession by banning bank-mergers that Harper OPPOSED when he was in opposition but is now actually TAKING CREDIT for ...