{"id":4627,"date":"2023-10-29T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2023-10-29T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T21:54:59","slug":"another-silly-pro-life-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/10\/29\/another-silly-pro-life-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Silly &#8220;Pro-Life&#8221; Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Those-of-you-who-are-pro-choice-when-it-comes-to-abortion-Are-you-also-pro-choice-when-it-comes-to-allowing-pro-life-people-to-vote-their-conscience-at-the-ballot-box\/answer\/Alan-Cooper-5?prompt_topic_bio=1\">(1000) Alan Cooper&#8217;s answer to Those of you who are \u201cpro-choice\u201d when it comes to abortion: Are you also pro-choice when it comes to allowing pro-life people to vote their conscience at the ballot box? &#8211; Quora<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"q-box qu-pt--medium qu-px--medium qu-pb--tiny\">\n<div class=\"q-text\">\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">I was going to give a sarcastic answer about the \u201cwell known phenomenon\u201d of pro-choice goons demanding to check everyone\u2019s ballot at the voting booth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">But seriously, so long as those votes are either on constitutionally permitted items or subject to whatever process your country has for amending its constitution, then in a proper democracy I have absolutely no way of not \u201callowing\u201d people to cast their secret ballot however they wish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">On the other hand, no, I am not in favour of including measures which restrict a woman\u2019s right to terminate her own unwanted pregnancy as constitutionally permitted. So wherever such laws are permitted, I favour amendments that make them unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: (1000) Alan Cooper&#8217;s answer to Those of you who are \u201cpro-choice\u201d when it comes to abortion: Are you also pro-choice when it comes to allowing pro-life people to vote their conscience at the ballot box? &#8211; Quora I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2023\/10\/29\/another-silly-pro-life-question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}