With just two days left to his presidency, George W. Bush has declared January 18th ‘National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2009′. The pro-life movement has had no greater friend in the White House and the president’s strong stand for life is indeed part of his legacy. Read more about it, see photos and watch a compelling video.
President Bush with mischievious-looking Friend during T-Ball
Some pro-life Americans have had their disagreements with President Bush on issues other then life resulting, sadly, in their support of pro-abortion Barack Obama for president. But top pro-life leaders say President Bush will leave behind a very strong and lasting legacy as a champion of the pro-life cause. In one of his final proclamations from the Oval Office, he said this:
“All human life is a gift from our Creator that is sacred, unique, and worthy of protection. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, our country recognizes that each person, including every person waiting to be born, has a special place and purpose in this world. We also underscore our dedication to heeding this message of conscience by speaking up for the weak and voiceless among us.”
President Bush has demonstrated his pro-life commitment time and time again over the past eight years. During his first week in office 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.
Here are other significant commitments the president made for the cause of life:
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. President 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. President 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. He 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.
With a the new administration, the next months and years are uncertain times for the pro-life movement. In fact, I expect the contrast between the Bush years and the Obama administration on pro-life issues will be striking — and heartbreaking.
Right Pundits has well documented Obama’s extremist pro-abortion position here, here, and here. Obama’s promise to Planned Parenthood to get the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) passed, as his first presidential act, is more then slightly disturbing.
I stand with President Bush on the Sanctity of Life. It is indeed written in the hearts of all men and women. Should we not all aspire to build a society in which every child is welcome in life and protected in law?
You can read President George W. Bush’s full proclamation on National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2009 by going here.
George W. Bush Life Legacy Photos
George W. Bush Life Legacy Video
January 17th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Obama is not pro-abortion, he is pro-choice. He has said over and over again that, while he supports a woman’s right to choose, he is interested in doing anything possible that might result in limiting the number of abortions.
But of course, you do not mention this, because you want to spin everything a certain way.
You feel that you have good arguments. Why don’t you be honest and present your arguments without the lies? If they have merit, then this should not be necessary.
January 17th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Yea Edward.
I’m dont think people should be allowed to kill babys either.
But by all means they should most definitely have the choice.
Its not a lie.
Hes pro abortion.
And hes pro life.
I guess you could spin that depending on how inconvenient the baby will be ?
January 17th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Edward, you need to get your own facts straight and accept the fact that your guy could not care less about our children…born or murdered.
January 17th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
As far as arguments go.
It would really be nice if you tried one just once instead of acting like some dung beetle running from one thread to another dropping his currancy everywhere.
January 17th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
why be so derisive on Edward? A lot of women feel their bodies are their own and they have a right to choose regarding abortion since they have concious minds through the whole process. We all know the problems involved, but do you sentence a women to pregnancy under threat of jail? There is more in education and values thinking we can do as a nation, but it seems to me if your in your own body you are its boss, not the state. Also bush launched a war of opportunity which cost many lives, and wounds, ours and those over there so I find it somewhat disturbing looking at this photo. I don’t think we should mix up the iraqi war with the osama war and then say we are all for life. Its complicated, and so is what a women does with her body frankly.
January 17th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Because I dont like him Brian.
I can tolerate liberals, democrats, progressive liberals and all the other breeds that have whatever micro leanings one way or the other.
But I cant stand definitive ignorance attached to a mouth quicker than its owner.
And I’m sure as hell not going to debate it with someone who overstates to the point its almost a lie by saying women would be setenced to jail.
An infant/embryo cant make a decision for itself as an adult on the battle field or at the OBGYN.
Those men volunteered to risk their lives more than likely for their own kids or someone elses.
Wise up.
And then theres the God thing.
If I’m wrong, the worst thing that could happen to me according to an athiest would be nothing.
If he is wrong and I’m right.
He/she is going to hell.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
ed simply using the kinder, gentler word ‘choice’ as opposed to ‘pro-abortion’ doesn’t mean you aren’t killing babies. and frankly ed there are no arguments on your side about this. period.
it is a value not an argument. it is if you consider a pre born child a person or not. your side says it is NOT a person — um that is unless you actually want a child, then miraculously it becomes a person! our side says it is a child with value and purpose and meaning — whether in the womb or not.
your buddy, obama? is pro abortion. by his own words and his own actions. documented.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Christ said we ought to be more concerned with the specs in our own eyes than in others which would be a pretty direct message from God too. While there is the ten commandments there is also a lot of dilemma in real life on how to follow them best, a dilemma God put there. Its part of our natural world to be in spiritural dilemmas. Catholics are big on the hell and purgatory stuff, but modern Protestants are pretty light on it. Who is right? The Pope or the gay protestant Archbishop? Obviously, our natural experience is God is great at creating options and dilemmas that you have to sort out for yourself. I think each person has a sacred trust with their own body that should be immune from the statel This won’t sound good to some people but I cannot tell you or her how you are going to manage your bodies functions. The state use to incarcerate women for abortions, so it could again. Did it ever occur to you that God thinks in Quantum fashion, where there can be assorted varied outcomes, or solutions to life’s problems and that is the natural world at its best. We tend to think in too rigid a linear fashion as mammals as we are wired and taught that way. But in the natural world quantum rules prevail and there are many experiments that prove this beyond a doubt. Read up on the “double slit experiment” with electrons and you will find there are multi-solutions to problems. I challenge people to try and think outside their mammalian box and see the natural “real” world for what it is. With time, practice, and reflection, you might be surprised how different the world begins to look from what you always thought. p.s. the Jesuits believed in developing their intellect through scientific observation and experimental interference with natural processes, yet they were also Catholics!!! I had a Jesuit trained teacher in High School who was just fantastic.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Brian.
God said alot of things that we could throw back and forth at each other all day we’re blue in your face.
Basic morality, christian or not says to go on the side of life.
The argument for abortions purpose is just so liberals can practice promiscuity.
Thats it ! Genital freedom !
It has nothing to do with “Its my body” and i’ll do what I want with it.
That argument goes out the window when another life is piggybacking on yours.
And it goes right back to the fetus not being able to speak on its own behalf where it would probably tell its mother the same thing.
When there are so many unknowns such as whether or not the fetus can feel the pain, or if there is a God or not, who says when life begins and ends, common moral logic says to aire on the side of life where there are more options besides death, which is final.
A mother can give the child up for adoption, make other araingments of many kinds.
I’m willing to bet that theres less lingering guilt in knowing that you gave that child a chance even though you may never see it, that to have to deal with a moral awakening years down the road iin your life.
I know, I’ve had a couple of women on my life who have aborted our children. One was dicussed between the both of us, the other was done behind my back.
Its hurts bro ! And it doesnt go away. Especially while you’re in the process of raising two right now as it is.
And dont let anyone bullsh*t you otherwise !
January 17th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I am not a religous fundamentalist as all has been passed through the lens of man. The reformed church has some good things going for it. Just can’t see shackling a women to her body under the guise of the State. Whom controls reproductive rights has a very powerful position indeed.
January 17th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Its not reproductive rights.
No one stopped her from the act of reproducing.
But she cannot fail to complete the process out of convenience at the cost of another life.
January 17th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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January 18th, 2009 at 6:21 am
George Bush’s legacy and it’s a good one.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Response to Brian -
God does not create dilemma’s – it is our own free will that creates them – the same free will given to us by God through His unconditional love for, and trust in, us that we will return that love through our actions.
For Catholics, while we believe in respecting the faith of others, we believe our faith is the one true faith. Nothing anyone says will change a faithful person’s heart. Further we do not judge the faiths of others because only God knows what is in the heart.
But, personally, it is hard for me to comprehend how anyone can choose (of their own free will) such a barbaric method as abortion to negate the act (once again, of their own free will) which led to their pregnancy.
So you can spin it anyway you want, but the truth can’t be spinned. And just let it be known that no one is beyond becoming “confused” by earthly beliefs – our intellect, without a doubt, is no match for God’s.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Am not spinning, but at least you can see there is a difference betweens God’s will and an individual’s will, so you are not a hard core fundamentalist. God gave us free will to do more than parrot some imagined need he has for this constant adulation our preachers tell us, almost universally couched in the words of fear. Christ said accept him and you are with him and if you reread his wanderings here on earth and his talks with people walking around with him you will see God is much more complex than most of our preachers would have us believe. It still comes down to a woman has a right over me, to control her own body. She will have to make her own peace with God, but without interference of the state. God gave us the natural life as well,, unfortunately not much thought has been given to the role of nature in our God. Nature is, as we are, his vessel. God does create dilemmas, such as us.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:28 am
obama is poised to become the most pro-active, pro-abortion president this country has ever had. it reminds me of when Clinton swept into office, and pro-lifers beat back many of his pro-abortion policies, including the failed Clinton health care plan. we can do it again.
January 18th, 2009 at 9:31 am
kate, why would your generous nature be against a health care plan? It doesn’t mean socializing where you buy your aspirin, and the only ones our current plan really serves are corporate profit making interests such as Pharm companys, hmo’s where almost half of the insurance premiums go to the owners profits, and insurance company’s who are only interested in maximizing profits. Meanwhile half of Americans cannot get affordable if any health care. You think your being a loyal ideologue but actually your just being a shill for the profit interests who really don’t care about the people at all. Pharma’s once were more pro people and reasonable, but they have been completely taken over by profit interests, high powered mba’s, and they have no interest in our health care beyond its a business they make money in. To not change is to exclude half our people a basic right(yes this isn’t Zimbawbe yet) and highly wasteful of our resources and future productivitiy, plus it will bankrupt medicare and medicaid which will be the ultimate bad government. The “we can do it again” is the ultimate irresponsible posture and you do a disservice to the health of our nation to win your little ego pennant.
January 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Brian, so far your responses to Kate and Dol have been off track and evasive to put it nicely.
People are only dilemas to paranoid anarchists like you.
And where do you get off comparing the purchase of a pill to how universal medicine could well be the entrance port that socialism needs to take root in our country ?
Do you actually think that no one should profit in health care ?
Whats the point in entering a profession such as medicine where the suppliers and practioners who study and pay for sometimes decades to become qualified should settle for government regulated pay ?
Yea right. let the government pay the doctors and suppliers next to nothing to bring down the costs so that we end up with a bunch of “B” rated people working on our sick.
Medicine needs to remain a free enterprise market system or we will quickly see the quality and research advancements we are used to disappear over night.
Really man, come back down.
January 18th, 2009 at 10:48 am
you get carried away with all this “lying” stuff, now its “evasive”, when to me they are just not thinking through the issue and taking a mere “ideological” or nonthinking, be loyal to your team approach? Health care should be a mixture of doing it for the good of people while making some “reasonable” money at it, a blend that overall benifits everyone involved.
There are otherways to make things “reasonable” like helping medical and nursing students get out of school basically debt free, in return for providing some care a while to underserved folks. Free enterprise doesn’t have to be a predatory system on our “free” people. Even people with good health insurance are virtual prisoners of their jobs for fear of losing the insurance. We have been so manipulated by the profit interests to even make available the portability of health insurance impossible. Plus our current system allows way too many people to opt out of paying into a large insurance pool which doesn’t help either. A restauant is free enterprise where they provide a food experience you can pay to go to or simply not. If its a good place you go, pay, they make some profits and everyone is happy. If its a bad place it goes out of business. In health care, most of the patients are prisoners already of hmo’s and insurance programs, their jobs, etc and contracted out to places that may be good or bad with no real say. An illness or injury may put someone’s entire life savings down the hopper and that just isn’t right. We don’t have to socialize everything, but we do need to do something. If you think health care is simply adam smith free enterprise you are just wrong. Get everyone contributing to an insurance pool, homogenous medical records and claims payments, make presecriptions affordable to cash payers, get students through school with low or no debt, do more governmental r&d in our universities and enlarge our training schools as public service providers as well, and get all these mba’s out of the health businesses and put in social science and liberal arts majors and honest accountants, and offer a group of portable basic care insurance programs. Give emergency rooms city, state, and federal tax breaks, and increase hmo’s medical accountability so real sercies are provided. This would still be free enterprise but with a system for a change that engages all Americans to get health care. It would also provide jobs and tax revenues. I really don’t see the downside for our government to govern for a change. You guys have got to realize often you are coopted to being puppets for the corporate interests talking points to keep their power over you and me. If we don’t one day you will find when you are older you will have to choose between paying for your blood pressure medicine or your utility bill.
January 18th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
brian you said:
‘The “we can do it again” is the ultimate irresponsible posture and you do a disservice to the health of our nation to win your little ego pennant.’
actually may i say what is irresponsible is the systematic slaughter of 30 million people – who should be here with us today mind you – and blaming it on a sick healthcare system.
i have no ‘ego pennant.’ i simply value life from conception to natural death. something you, an unaborted former fetus, do not understand.
January 18th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
well you want to keep our women’s bodies in chains apparently, but I just don’t agree. The health care problem is real, and fairly fixable with some effort which is what good government should do, and we all ought to be involved. Your painting an angelic picture of yourself while condemning nearly half the nation to substandard health care, that is my point. Be consistent at least. You seem to forget Nature one of the hands of God has always had an influence on our population size through natural controls that we occasionaly get around with our technology. Oh, now you want to make it personal like your one of those lets hang around the family planning clinic types and boo the patients as they enter and exit. I guess you are more a meddler in people’s personal freedom and decisions, and I am a meddler in advocating sane government to improve our overall health care AND ITS AFFORDABILITY. So now you’rr going to say you’re more moral because….well go watch Moral Orel on time warner cartoon network and pick a fight with them. The fact is we have some poorly performing people living in our midst, per the will of God who are willy nilly producing pregnancys, even more future felons, like popping fresh buns and then going the most convenient route. Obviously we have failed in reaching them, and in raising their children? Are our prisons to be their fathers?(charles manson). I defer to a womens own body choices as I think its part of her natural freedom. We are supposed to be in a free America you know. Don’t blame me for the choices others make, as I have kept my slate in this life clean, which probably makes me more moral than many others. Anways, go watch Moral Orel and you will see its a complex world we live in.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
where to start brian….
‘well you want to keep our women’s bodies in chains apparently’
how you got that from what i said is simply odd. no chains. nope. chains bad.
‘Your painting an angelic picture of yourself while condemning nearly half the nation to substandard health care, that is my point. Be consistent at least.’
no i don’t think i am angelic or even trying to be so but i am unashamedly pro-life. i am not going to allow you to simply couch the entire life argument as a substandard health care issue. that was not my argument — it seems to be yours however.
‘I guess you are more a meddler in people’s personal freedom and decisions, and I am a meddler in advocating sane government to improve our overall health care AND ITS AFFORDABILITY.’
lol… not a cogent argument about the sanctity of life in context of my post but it is a rather nice slam on me. frankly i could write a book on the left’s meddling in personal freedoms and decisions but alas another day another post.
‘I defer to a womens own body choices as I think its part of her natural freedom.’
and there my friend brian is the crux of the issue. do we choose life as the scriptures say? or do we ignore that and choose our own way and call it ‘natural freedom’? a moral dilemma for certain.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
“bodies in chains” ?
Yup, why argue with some paranoid overly poetic anarchist.
They did it to themselves you dingaling.
Having a child is a body in chains ?
HUH ?
Like Obama when he said that it punishment to have an unwanted child ?
You make me sick.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Brian;
“you get carried away with all this “lyingâ€? stuff, now its “evasiveâ€?, when to me they are just not thinking through the issue and taking a mere “ideologicalâ€? or nonthinking, be loyal to your team approach?”
Lets put it this way, and I know I get on the moderators nerves, but I have to say it short and sweet.
You’re full of sh*t
You’re a proven liar.
You have already blamed Bush for things that no fact supports and then lied again by denying it when it was written in front of the whole worlds face to see.
There are people that can think things thru in greater length than you.
As a matter of fact your posts more resemble someone whos thoughts go straight from his head to the keyboard without ever stopping to think.
You’re in such a freaking hurry you cant even stop for any kind of punctuation, a sentence or paragraph break.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
You sure come from a different briefing book, but I do make the effort to read a good selection of news sources and punditry and do background reading on a number of issues as well. That isn’t lying in my book. You guys sure attack the messenger in a most personal manner also, but I just don’t care much about that as my information is researched and considered carefully. Kate should realize I hope I am advocating women’s rights issues and am also pro-life despite her name calling. I just don’t believe in chaining people up to make them do it my way. I think God has reasons for us being different in ways and its okay not to all be in lockstep. Right and wrong are very important issues, but I have no interest in enforcing a police state. Also I think we evolve as fetus’s into human beings and slowly take on personalities and souls that can for some become sentient, and for others just be boyz in the hood till their not. God does this for a reason. Accepting Christ means you accept this also and as I tried to explain before our mammalian minds limit our conciousness of God. Using a quantum reality based lens gets you an inside look at this but it does require work to get there. Fundamentalism is a great social organizing tool and you can build armys and empires from it but its mammalian. yes, mammalian. God is something else. yes and he’s been telling us this millenia after millenia. We should listen.