Friday 25 January 2013

Now I'm A Belieber

This blog would not ordinarily concern itself with Justin Bieber. But no one would be saying anything against him if he or his mother had expressed the contrary view on on abortion.

Moreover, in the course of the same interview two years ago in which he expressed his strong oposition to the intentional taking of life in the womb, he also opined:

"Canada's the best country in the world, We go to the doctor and we don't need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you're broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard's baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby's premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home."

A blue-collar pro-lifer whose support for social democracy in general and for universal public healthcare in particular is the basis of his patriotic allegiance to a Commonwealth Realm. That'll do nicely.

Britain acquired universal public healthcare long before abortion. Many European or Commonwealth countries, including Canada, did so. Only in Britain has Western Europe anything like the abortion on demand up to and including partial birth that exists in the United States. But everywhere in Western Europe has universal public healthcare, and has had for so long that no one can imagine life without it, a status which, admittedly, it has attained very rapidly indeed everywhere where it has ever been introduced.

The most pro-life sections of any given European or Commonwealth society are always among the most stalwart supporters of the public healthcare system. The failings inherent in what was the Senate Bill, now ObamaCare, will lead to the enactment of what was the House Bill. Therefore, the same will be the case in America very soon, and then forever thereafter.

Such is Social Catholicism and the Evangelical tradition of, in American terms, William Jennings Bryan in action. The sort of thing that the Catholic Enclycists in the North, and the agrarian populists in the South and West, would have done, and would have united to do.

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