Credit Where It Is Due
I have been disappointed with much of the Bush presidency, including the President's failure to pursue a social conservative agenda - a disappointment I expressed here.
But I also believe that the President deserves praise for those aspects of the pro-life agenda on which he has been strong. For a list of President Bush's pro-life accomplishments, see the following comment from "Granada" posted at Mark Shea's Catholic and Enjoying It:
Bush pro-life accomplishments:Amen.
Reinstated Mexico City policy, restricted Federal medicaid funding for RU-486, appointed several pro-life judges in lower 2 branches of judiciary, overruled his SecState by appointing a pro-lifer to a U.N. committee on population and refugees, extended health care coverage to poor children by defining those in the womb as children, seeked increased abstinence funding, opposed human cloning and the destruction of embryos for stem-cell research, opposes abortion at UN conferences that attempt to force abortion on poor countries, withheld UNFPA money various times, signed born alive infant protection act, [signed] unborn victims of violence act, supported child custody protection act and abortion non-discrimination act (so that Catholic hospitals aren't forced by states to perform abortions), appointed Dr. Hager to Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, pressured Congress to keep military abortion ban, cracked down on illegally imported abortion drugs, refused to buckle when pro-abortion Senators held up aide to women in Afghanistan, threatened to veto spending bills with money for abortion in them, made a recess appointment of a judge who was filibustered because he was a pro-life Catholic, started public service announcements encouraging adoption, publically suppoted his brother and others trying to save Terri Schiavo's life, weighed the possibility of requiring warning labels on condoms, and appointed two pro-life Justices to the Supreme Court.
Lets us praise God for this!!
And don't think for one moment that the leading contenders for the Democrat nomination wouldn't follow the lead of Bill Clinton and seek to undo as much as possible of the above list of pro-life accomplishments as as one of his or her first acts in office.
Labels: Bush, Pro-Life, Social Conservatives
posted by Pro Ecclesia 12:01 AM
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3 Comments:
By the way, Bush's work on ESCR was opposed by his Sec'y HHS, Tommy Thompson.
Thompson was a promoter of ESCR while Governor or Wisconsin, and is now running for President.
hmmm - what about Bushs murderous unjust war in Iraq that has been condemmed by the Vatican?
The president and the GOP lead congress had the rare opportunity to end legalized abortion. The national platform of the GOP lists measures that the grassroots of the party expect of their elected officials. One measure is a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution. Another is legislation recognizing that the 14th Amendment includes persons in the womb.
Our problem is that we keep electing Republican politicians who don't agree with our platform, and are way out of touch with the grassroots of the party on a number of issues including abortion.
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