People have praised this answer of PM on social media.
A conversation on the issue of abortion between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a supporter of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) has gone viral on social media. According to Independent, Mr. Trudeau’s confrontation with a supporter was captured during a visit to the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.
The video, shared on Reddit by user @NoahFromCanada, shows Mr Trudeau pausing to speak with a young man who supports the PPC, before telling the PM: “They’re mostly Christians and I I am against the vaccine mandate” also against abortion
“Okay, okay, do you think women have the right to choose what happens to their own bodies?” Mr Trudeau asks her. “Personally, no,” the young man replies. When asked by the PM whether he should personally choose what happens to a woman’s body, the man says that women who “sleep around shouldn’t be allowed to have abortions”.
Watch the video here:
A PPC supporter tries to debate with Trudeau at the UofM compound this morning.
By u/noahfromcanada In winnipeg
Mr. Trudeau then asks the man whether women who have been raped should be allowed to have abortions.
“Of course, this is where it gets complicated,” the man replies to which Mr. Trudeau says, “No, it doesn’t get complicated. It’s a yes or a no. It’s an all-too-common example.” Women get raped all the time and this is something we have to take seriously… Should a rape victim be able to get an abortion?’ an abortion.
Trudeau ends the conversation by saying, “Looks like you need to think a little more, and pray a little more.”
The PM’s response has been praised by people on social media with many applauding him for standing up for women’s rights. One user wrote, ‘Trudeau really does this job well. Here he is firm, forthright and dignified as he challenges this young man who wants a debate on abortion rights.”
Another wrote, ‘This kind of conversation between the government and the youth should happen all the time. Nice to see.” A third said, “The way Trudeau responded was excellent. Furthermore, it is very sad that the young man accepts assumptions that he really could not give a coherent or reasoned answer to Mr. Trudeau. Trudeau says ‘you need to do some more thinking and prayer.’
Last year, the Prime Minister of Canada condemned the US Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate abortion rights in the United States. “The news coming out of the United States is appalling,” he said in a Twitter message. “No government, politician or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body.”
Notably, abortions in Canada are legal at all stages of pregnancy and funded by the government health care system.