Brad Trost equates limiting women's choice with US civil rights movement. Really.

The newest attack on progressives in the US has been to preempt liberal heroes like Martin Luther King for their own devices, to skew their point of view into attacks on women, the poor and the infirmed. It's a brilliant if somewhat limited strategy. The ridiculousness of this form of attack soon overcomes its short term effectiveness. The public may be apathetic but they're not stupid.

Looking north to Canada, we have our very own Republican wannabes in the Conservative party who have done pretty well the last few years preempting the GOP playbook for dirty tricks, as most recently evidenced by voter suppression fraud.

Brad Trost is one of those wannabes. His take on politics and abortion is to say the least eye opening. This interview with Aaron Wherry is enlightening in its long winded right-wing whine. Trost's victim posturing on abortion would be hilarious if the laughs didn't catch in one's throat. No doubt the man believes what he is saying but please Brad, leave the American civil rights movement out of it. Limiting women's choices is not what Martin Luther King stood for. Or Michail Gorbachev for the matter.

"This is not a short-term sort of issue. You look at the American civil rights movement, when they got rid of back-of-the-bus treatment in parts of the U.S. and things like that. It wasn’t just up they did it and five years later… We view this as a very long-term thing, a project that essentially never finishes. If you believe human life is of its own uniquely valuable … then of course you have to push it forward if you believe in things like human rights. It’s like Cold War politics. In the 1950s you kept going through the 60s and the 70s and then the 80s, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.  You didn’t give up because it was about fundamental principles. And, yeah, I think we’re fairly realistic. The Supreme Court would strike down, if we did pass some kind of legislation, the current composition of the Supreme Court would strike down immediately if it was from conception. They might allow something around week 20 or week 18 or 22 or whatever. Most MPs are very realistic about that. But it’s a broader cultural thing and the politics influences the culture just as the culture influences the politics."