How the Left Plan to Weaponise Abortion

The Australian left are hardly the world’s most original thinkers. Just look at the odious Senator Lidia Thorpe: no sooner did Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke tear up some papers and do her silly song and dance in parliament than the Lidiot was slavishly copying her.

Even more hypocritical, despite professing to disdain all things American, the Australian left fall over themselves to ape every silly leftist nostrum from the US: BLM, Antifa, you name it.

And now, abortion.

In this country, the left has long tried to use the availability of “reproductive services”, elaborate code for abortion, to push for it to be available in public hospitals and, by extension, to attack Catholic public hospitals.

The problem for the left, though, is that they’ve long been tilting at windmills. Abortion has rarely been a hot-button issue in Australia. That’s because, rather than imposing it by dodgy judicial fiat, as with Roe v Wade in the US, Australia came to mostly agreement through the normal democratic process.

But the left tried to make abortion the issue of the 2024 presidential election, even though it is no longer a federal matter. Still, the scare campaign made some inroads with the sort of young, elite, left-wing women for whom killing unborn children trumps every other consideration. ‘Us too!’ screech the Australian left.

There is a move among the left to split the Coalition using abortion, with a several-pronged tactic. First, it is being insinuated into the public consciousness as a “public health” issue; second, following on from that, over the next months it will be pushed as a political issue.

The argument is that the Liberals are in the Donald Trump aggressive mould and the Coalition is going to use abortion as an election issue.

Which is stunningly hypocritical, given that almost the only people banging on about it here are the left.

However, that has not stopped the ever-cynical Greens from baiting the Coalition and Peter Dutton using abortion. Recently, they have ramped up the attack on the public health front, announcing that they want a billion dollars spent on providing abortion services in all public hospitals, particularly in regional and rural areas.

But there’s a perfectly valid reason why public hospitals don’t provide abortions.

This is not about sick people. Elective abortion takes beds and public-health facilities from sick people.

What’s more important? Your grandma’s hip replacement or Greens-voter Hermione Hyphenated-Surname being able to continually avoid the consequences of her own disdain for contraception?

Besides, it gives the left another chance to bash their favourite whipping-boy, the ‘Christian right’ boogeyman.

Niki Savva in The Sydney Morning Herald […] blames the “Christian Right”, which she claims is more prominent than it was. She seems to have forgotten the prominence of the evangelical Australian Christian Lobby during the Howard era. What she really seems to be saying is that it is a Catholic LNP preoccupation.

Which is yet another case of the left projecting harder than the local drive-in. They’re obsessed with abortion. Mostly, it seems, as a cynical brickbat to bash the Coalition. Peter Dutton, however, is playing it smarter than that.

Dutton, however, doesn’t want to revisit the issue in an election campaign. He is right. As he knows, for Australians it is not the burning issue it is in the US, but it is a very uncomfortable issue for most people. Politically, it provides a distraction from the everyday issues of cost of living and energy that is the opposition’s strength and Dutton wants to campaign on. What is more, aside from hospital funding, it has no application to federal law. As Dutton said this week, “to use abortion is the most cynical thing you could do because federal laws have nothing to do with abortion”.

Which is exactly why the left will weaponise an issue most Australians assume was settled long ago.