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Abortion is a matter between a woman and her physician. It has no business being reduced to a political football and access to it shouldn’t be up for debate.

But once again, Albertans find themselves on the cusp of an election where forces seem to want to make it an issue for the campaign trail.

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Jason Kenney says the United Conservative Party won’t debate abortion access if elected to government despite his own personal beliefs. Good on him. It’s a question that the country’s highest court settled three decades ago.

But for Albertans concerned about preserving the status quo when it comes to a woman’s right to choose, the promise might carry more weight were it not undermined by indications to the contrary by elements of the UCP.

An anti-abortion activist group has lauded Kenney’s party as having a chance to field the “most pro-life legislature in decades.”

The Wilberforce Project claims that its campaign to nominate anti-abortion UCP candidates has succeeded and those individuals can’t be allowed to backslide. Right Now, another lobby group, estimated in December that anti-abortion candidates had won 42 per cent of the party’s nominations, with more to be held.