What the Greens should learn from Barnaby Joyce
When it comes to NSW’s controversial abortion bill, common sense and basic principles seems to play no part in the decision-making process for the Greens, no matter the cost to human life, writes Miranda Devine.
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While it has cost Barnaby Joyce a lot, he displays the courage of his convictions when it comes to abortion.
He’s now copping flak for his involvement in a pro-life rally in Martin Place, including from at least one of his daughters with ex-wife Natalie.
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But you can’t say he isn’t consistent. Cherishing the life of his unborn son with Vikki Campion is what destroyed his marriage, so he’s paid the price for his beliefs.
He is no hypocrite on abortion. But you can’t say the same for the Greens.
Turns out they hate social conservatives so much that they are planning to vote against their own policy to defend intersex foetuses — those who, for chromosomal or other reasons, don’t fit the traditional definition of male or female. They’re the only unborn babies they care about, but it’s a start.
An amendment to the abortion bill before the NSW parliament, to be moved by finance minister Damien Tudehope, would prevent sex-selection abortions of male, female and intersex foetuses.
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This aligns with Greens policy calling for an end to in-utero testing and termination of foetuses with intersex characteristics, as Danielle Le Messurier has reported in this newspaper.
But the Greens say they’ll vote against Tudehope’s amendment, because, well, it’s obvious. He’s conservative so they automatically are against everything he is for.
In other words, they are prepared to eugenicise the “I” out of LGBTI, just to spite an ideological foe.
That’s hypocrisy for you.