Posted on 01/16/2005 1:54:25 PM PST by cpforlife.org
A person is Pro-Life only to the degree to which they are willing to actually “do something about it”. I’ve been Pro-Life my entire life but until 7 or so years ago I did not do a thing about it. I still am not doing everything possible that I can do, but I am trying and getting better with time.
President Bush, whom I spent much time, effort, and resources for on both his bids for the White House is Pro-Life with such exceptions and compromises as to make the claim an insult to the 6 million babies that have been dismembered since he took office. Yes I believe President Bush is personally against abortion, but the actions he has taken thus far have saved very few, if any lives.
The president can, under his Constitutional authority refuse to enforce an unconstitutional opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court and all inferior federal courts. [1] “Pro-Life” Bush on any given day over the last 4 years could have broken the tyrannical holocaust of the Roe v Wade OPINION, which would then let the States' decide, as was the situation prior to Roe. 30 states have laws on the books banning or restricting abortion, and President Bush could have signed a piece of paper allowing those laws to be enforced. Since his party is in control of both houses of Congress there is virtually no chance that he would have been impeached let alone removed for such a brave and just act as this. If Bush were a true committed Pro-Lifer he would have used this authority, which has been used at least 3 times in history on FAR LESS SERIOUS MATTERS AS 4,000 murders a day every day for 32 years.
Bush signed The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2004. I’m sure he knew that other than the tremendous educational and public awareness impact (which is very good) the law was meaningless because all the serial killer abortionist had to do to stay “within the law” was give a lethal injection to the child prior to partial delivery and sucking his brains out.
President Bush has also had the opportunity for no less than two years to champion legislation that would have ended the holocaust precipitated by Roe [2]. His silence on this life saving legislation is at the same deafening level as everyone else, as only 2 or 3 Congressmen joined to co sponsor the different legislation, so I’m not singling Dubya out.
The only way the holocaust will end is with real and courageous leadership from Capitol Hill and the White House, from Pro-Lifers who are willing to do real battle for the babies, and for the Constitution.
President Bush is a hero on the war on terror, and I believe still can be a FAR GREATER hero, if he would do all that he can do to stop the murderous terror of American waiting to be born.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]Executive dissent with unconstitutional majority opinion
The President takes an oath of office Article 6, Clause 3 "to support this Constitution" and not the penumbras emanating from deviant dicta and unconstitutional opinion. The President can present his case of dissent to the public in a public address, executive orders, through members of his cabinet and through members of his party. He can act on his opinion, by not enforcing Roe v Wade and progeny against the States. States could legislate as they did prior to the 1973 unconstitutional opinion.
The following quote from Andrew Jackson is a concise statement of Constitutional principal that has been ignored, or forgotten for many decades. The prevailing myth seems to be that the Constitution is what the federal judiciary says it is, regardless of the extent of deviation from text or intent, and that all others who are bound by an oath of Office in Article 6, Clause 3 are forbidden to act on their understanding of the text they are sworn to uphold.
Article 6, Clause 3 contains no Oath or Affirmation to support any federal judicial opinion. The plain text of the Constitution reveals separation of powers, checks & balances and coordinate functioning of three branches that are not coequal in power. Power of impeachment, funding, regulation of lower federal court jurisdiction and the U.S. Supreme appelate jurisdiction resides in Congress. The President has the power of enforcement and isn't Constitutionally, legally, or ethically required to blindly enforce blatantly unconstitutional opinions. The Supreme Court has only the power of opinion, which has become far more biased in its increasing disregard of plain text than the mainstream media has been in its disregard of plain fact.
The Avalon Project : President Jackson's Veto Message Regarding ...
If the opinion of the Supreme Court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the coordinate authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision. The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
[2] We the People Act (HR 3893)- Prohibits the Supreme Court and each Federal court from adjudicating any claim or relying on judicial decisions involving: (1) State or local laws, regulations, or policies concerning the free exercise or establishment of religion; (2) the right of privacy, including issues of sexual practices, orientation, or reproduction; or (3) the right to marry without regard to sex or sexual orientation where based upon equal protection of the laws.
Pro-Life and Pro-Family groups and individuals must learn about this incredible piece of life saving legislation and call write fax e-mail their Representatives to demand that they co-sponsor and champion this legislation.
Read his "about" page.
No law will stop one single abortion. Anyone who wants one will always go where it is available.
For a barf read his "about" page.
The GOP is no longer pro-life. Look at the leaders presented at the last convention and the roster of GOP Governors. What you saw is what you are going to get. The National pro-life stance has been a 4 year election year cicada. I fear it's gone.
Do you think your policy preference should be law by judicial fiat ala Roe v Wade and its progeny, or by the legislatures legalizing it?
By the way, I am in favor of legalized gay marriage, but only via the latter approach, not the former. The former way is the road to making the judiciary, and the judicial selection process in Congress, and the power of a society to decide democratically these divisive moral issues, a toxic waste dump. Think about it - hard.
And there you have it.
I believe that Laura Bush said a year or two ago that she does not favor the revocation of "Roe v. Wade" too.
Yawners here refuse to admit Bush is pro-Bush. All else is secondary.
Are you not aware that there are more parents wanting to adopt, then there are babies available to adopt? That talking point really has no air left in it.
Jennifer O'Neill will be at the Convention signing her book.
Who is she? Is this an actress?
What will "push" the reversal of Roe is whom Bush selects as SCOTUS nominees, and whether they are confirmed. Nothing else. I wonder why the perfervid types are blasting away at Bush even before he gets a chance to nominate someone?
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First off, I am as adamantly pro-life as anyone you are ever to encounter...
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Yeah, sure you did. Let's see the canceled checks.
In the 2000 primaries all the other Republican candidates (Keyes, Buaer, Buchanan, Forbes...)were competing against each other to see who could be the most pro-life by saying such stupid things as "I will outlaw all abortions by executive order within one minute of being sworn in", and "I will only appoint judges who promise to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade", and "I will made abortion a capital offense", etc....
President Bush was being honest with the voters. He said that the abortion laws would never be changed until the hearts of the American people are changed. He refused to promise that he would appoint judges that would overturn Roe; instead saying only that he would nominate strict constructionists.
President Bush has done more to advance the pro-life thinking in America than any other person. He set out to change hearts. His first prime time speech was about embryonic stem cell research, a topic very few Americans had ever heard of.
He created a national dialog, not on whether it was moral to kill a new born baby, or a partially born baby, or a baby in the third trimester; but rather he started a debate on whether it was moral to use an embryo that was already destined to be flushed down the commode.
He moved the football 99 yards in a single play. After months of people arguing the morality of destroying stem cells, it was easy to get a bill passed outlawing partial birth abortion.
Polls show a remarkable shift in the opinion of Americans about abortion since Bush took office.
If Roe is overturned and the states are free to set their own laws, most if not all will outlaw abortion now, thanks to President Bush.
And we have no idea how many millions of abortions did not occur because of the minds that Bush has changed.
Your post is an insult to a fine President and I resent it.
Please please take me off your pinglist!!!...Now!
Huff and a puff, geeezzzz.
The troll formerly known as "rommy" is dead.
Zotted I tell you!
Sad. I think the powers that be might wish me to be the lone "moderate" on this forum. :) Ok, this guy was a few degress more to the left perhaps, but then the poor guy didn't get a chance to revise and extend his remarks.
We already have laws against abortion: Murder. Get a murder conviction for abortion and the game's over.
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