Bush Anti Abortion Legacy

[kantuckyII]

President Bush Will Leave Strong Pro-Life Legacy on Abortion, Bioethics Issues
by Steven Ertelt | WASHINGTON, DC | LIFENEWS.COM | 1/16/09 9:00 AM

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President Bush Will Leave Strong Pro-Life Legacy on Abortion, Bioethics Issues
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 16, 2009


Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – Americans may have their dispute with President Bush on other political issues and those disputes may have led them to support pro-abortion Barack Obama for president. But top pro-life leaders say Bush will leave behind a very strong and lasting legacy as a champion of the pro-life cause.

During his administration, President Bush saw abortions decline to historic lows and he made history himself by signing the first measure to ever ban a form of abortion.

Every pro-life leader LifeNews.com contacted showered Bush with words of praise.

"President Bush’s conviction that innocent human life deserves respect in law and culture runs deep," Concerned Women for America president Wendy Wright said.

"From signing pro-life laws, instituting pro-life regulations, to promoting pro-life international policies, he faced vicious opposition yet did not relent. Bureaucrats worked to undermine and thwart his policies, sometimes working hand-in-hand with pro-abortion groups and hostile media. But he was not deterred," she said.

Bill Donohue, the head of the Catholic League, agreed.

"George W. Bush will be remembered as doing more to build a culture of life than any president," he told LifeNews.com.

"From embryonic stem cell research and cloning to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and partial-birth abortion, George W. Bush has been the pro-life community’s best friend," he explained.

The president demonstrated his pro-life commitment on his first day in office when he reinstituted the Mexico City Policy that stops taxpayer funding of groups that promote or perform abortions in other nations. Later he extended that policy further to prevent pro-abortion funding within all State Department programs.

He also cut off funding for the UNFPA, a United Nations agency found to have been involved in supporting and working with Chinese family planning officials as the implemented the nation’s one-child policy with forced abortions.

Bush followed that up with a policy preventing taxpayers from being forced to pay for new embryonic stem cell research that destroys human life.

The president signed every piece of pro-life legislation that came to his desk, including the partial-birth abortion ban and a bill to make sure babies who survive botched abortions receive appropriate medical care.

Bush signed into law the Unborn Victims of Violence Act to offer protection and justice to pregnant women like Laci Peterson and their unborn children who are killed or injured in violent attacks.

He also signed measures to reduce abortions among disabled babies by helping provide parents of children with Down syndrome and other ailments with alternatives.

President Bush also repeatedly threatened to veto any Congressional bill that removed one of the many different protections against taxpayer funded abortions.

On the bioethics front, President Bush offered to sign a ban on all forms of human cloning, though Congress never took him up on the offer. He also pressed for a UN call for nations to ban human cloning.

Bush tried to stop the use of federally-controlled drugs in assisted suicides in Oregon, but the courts stopped him from doing so and Congress never approved a bill backing him up.

And Bush signed into law a measure designed to help the family of Terri Schiavo save her from a painful starvation and dehydration death at the hands of her former husband.

"His attempt to save Terri Schindler Schiavo from a painful death showed his compassion for one vulnerable life," Wright said.

For other pro-life leaders, the contrast between the Bush years and the Obama administration on pro-life issues will be striking.

"President Bush leaves a strong pro-life legacy that will really only be understood in his wake with the heart-breaking ascendancy of a radical pro-abortion president," pro-life nurse and blogger Jill Stanek said. "I will miss him."

Stanek points out the not-so-heralded actions Bush took and says he appointed pro-life people to the key positions that mattered when it came to policy.

Father Frank Pavone said a president can be measured not only by the impact he has during his time in office but by the future impact his actions have. That, he says, is expressed in the fact that Bush named two Supreme Court judges that pro-life advocates strongly support.

"By far, the most lasting and significant progress made under President Bush is represented by the two Supreme Court Justices he nominated and the Senate confirmed," he told LifeNews.com. "That was the motivation for so many voters who elected the president both times. And it has already paid off, as the Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion."

Pavone says he personally saw the pro-life commitment of Bush and his administration during his interaction with him.

"In ways the public usually doesn’t hear about, pro-life men and women have been shaping and implementing federal policies and doing all they can to advance a culture of life through administrative decisions and policy proposals, both domestic and international," he said.

Those actions went beyond the border of the United States.

"The reputation of the United States as an exporter of abortion was accurate under President Clinton and will again be accurate under President Obama. Not so for President Bush," he said.

CWA’s Wendy Wright concluded her thoughts on Bush this way: "In the annals of history, George W. Bush will be remembered as a president who believed and fought to protect innocent human life. While we’ll never know how many lives were saved, and rarely will a person know that his or her life was rescued because of his policies, we do know that he set a standard that others can follow."

And, as Pavone noticed, President Bush truly believed in the cause of life.

"All of us who had the opportunity to speak with President Bush were struck by his sincerity and faith," he said.

"On one occasion, he pointed to the precious feet pin that a guest was wearing and said, ‘We’re going to win this battle,’" Pavone explained. "History will prove him right."

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[kantuckyII]

I do not know why I repeatedly have to keep publishing this on this place here. The Liberals on here continue to lie about George Bush and his antiabortion record. Let their mouths be shut

[abuck76]

The truth hurts I know tuck........... :12224

[kantuckyII]

And here comes a minion of hell....abuck! A devil dog!

[Burg_Grad_77]

Why of course your truth is the only truth, right Tuck. No one can be right on anything because you are just the bastion of truth.

[LucasJackson]

Not sure what President Bush's legacy is or will be on Abortion, but the Tepublican party's will be horrible. They all campaign on the issue each year and they do nothing about the policy once elected. Blame democrats all you want, your party ultimately is to blamr

[mustang_lvr]

The Tepublicans

I like that

[kantuckyII]

Not sure what President Bush's legacy is or will be on Abortion, but the Tepublican party's will be horrible. They all campaign on the issue each year and they do nothing about the policy once elected. Blame democrats all you want, your party ultimately is to blamr

That isn't true and you know it! Stop spreading the manure, there's plenty who you'd be taking their job.

I am not a republican! I couldn't vote Demoncrat now because the party is so ant-Christian

[kantuckyII]

President George W. Bush: Seeing Unborn Baby Shaped Pro-Life Views
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 11/8/10 2:07 PM

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In a new interview to be aired tonight with NBC’s Matt Lauer to promote his new book, Decision Points, pro-life former President George W. Bush explains a startling conversation that resulted in forming and solidifying his pro-life views.

After his mother Barbara Bush suffered an emotional miscarriage, “she said to her teenage kid, ‘Here’s the fetus,’” Bush told Lauer.

During the interview, President Bush gestures as if he is holding a jar saying the former First Lady showed him the jar containing the baby and that made a tremendous impact on him.

“I never expected to see the remains of the fetus, which she had saved in a jar to bring to the hospital,” Bush says. There was a human life, a little brother or sister.”

The New York Post reports that, in the interview, Bush tells Lauer, “There’s no question that affected me, a philosophy that we should respect life.”

But he also says in the interview “the purpose of the story [in the book] wasn’t to try show the evolution of a pro-life point of view” but “was really to show how my mom and I developed a relationship.”

It indicates Bush received permission from his mother to include the anecdote in the book.

In April, Bush headlined a fundraising banquet for an Indianapolis crisis pregnancy center.

“We are honored to welcome President George W. Bush, whose strong record on life issues demonstrates his belief that every life matters,” Brian Boone, the Life Centers president, told LifeNews.com. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate life – with a keynote address from a public servant who made the sanctity of human life a priority.”

Boone credited Bush with compiling a stellar pro-life record and pointed out that he signed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, Unborn Victims of Violence Act and Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

“Bush’s pro-life policies over eight years included the appointment of two pro-life Supreme Court Justices, an executive order barring federal funds to be used for abortion-related projects abroad, and a rule protecting federally funded health employees from taking part in abortion-related activities or other practices that conflicted with their religious views,” he said.

While Bush compiled a lengthy pro-life record, Obama has promoted abortion and forced Americans to pay for abortions and embryonic stem cell research that destroys human life.

Legatus gave Bush the prestigious Cardinal John J. O’Connor Pro-Life Award at its February event and last October, a Canadian pro-life group gave Bush the first pro-life award he has received since leaving office.

[kantuckyII]

George W. Bush is an interesting man with a complicated presidency that most Americans—going into Bush’s final year of office—deemed a failure. At one point, Bush had the worst approval/disapproval rating since Gallup began measuring. His record on domestic policy and foreign policy, on the economy and Iraq, on Katrina and the War on Terror, engenders much heated debate.

That said, George W. Bush was our best pro-life president, hands down. To cite just a few examples:

Bush’s confirmed picks to the Supreme Court, from a pro-life standpoint, were superb. His actual policy changes, from bans on partial birth-abortion to stopping taxpayer funding of the deliberate destruction of human embryos, were wonderful. In his first day in office, Bush authorized a ban on U.S. taxpayer funding of international “abortion rights” groups like International Planned Parenthood, which seek abortion implementation worldwide.

In contrast, President Barack Obama immediately restored that funding his first week in office, specifically, January 23, 2009, the day after the annual March for Life. In August 2002, Bush signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which requires medical attention to a child that accidentally survives an abortion. Barack Obama, as a state senator in Illinois, repeatedly blocked or voted against such legislation.

[dazed&confused]

...and just what happened to W? Where is his legacy? Why wasn't he front and center at the Republican Convention? Could it be because he was a fool who was badly in over his head? Yea, thought so. Back to the internets......

[dazed&confused]

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NBC/WSJ poll: Majority, for first time, want abortion to be legal
By Mark Murray, NBC News Senior Political Editor
January 22, 2013, 7:24 am NBCNews.com
As the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision takes place on Tuesday, a majority of Americans – for the first time – believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
What’s more, seven in 10 respondents oppose Roe v. Wade being overturned, which is the highest percentage on this question since 1989.
“These are profound changes,” says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart and his colleagues. McInturff adds that the abortion-related events and rhetoric over the past year – which included controversial remarks on abortion and rape by two Republican Senate candidates, as well as a highly charged debate over contraception – helped shaped these changing poll numbers. “The dialogue we have had in the last year has contributed … to inform and shift attitudes.”
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy.
According to the poll, 54 percent of adults say that abortion should be legal either always or most of the time, while a combined 44 percent said it should be illegal – either with or without exceptions.
That’s the first time since this poll question was first asked in 2003 that a majority maintained that abortion should be legal. Previously (with just one exception in 2008), majorities said abortion should be illegal.
In addition, a whopping 70 percent of Americans oppose the Roe v. Wade decision being overturned, including 57 percent who feel strongly about this.
That’s up from the 58 percent who said the decision shouldn’t be overturned in 1989; the 60 percent who said this in 2002; and the 66 percent who said this in 2005.
By comparison, just 24 percent now want the Roe v. Wade decision overturned, including 21 percent who feel strongly about this position.
Much of this change, the NBC/WSJ pollsters say, is coming from African Americans, Latinos and women without college degrees -- all of whom increasingly oppose the Supreme Court decision being overturned.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Jan. 12-15 of 1,000 adults (including 300 cellphone-only respondents), and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.

[kantuckyII]

First of all that poll you're quoting is greatly flawed!

Secondly, it has no business on this thread. You have gotten off the subject, The topic of this thread is about Bush and his efforts to reduce and stop abortions! Bush done the right thing! It does not matter who or what anyone else thinks, right is right, wrong is wrong and murder is murder

[abuck76]

And I am a devil dog!!..... ...... :12224

[dazed&confused]

And I am a devil dog!!..... ...... :12224

[abuck76]

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