Posted on 05/23/2004 11:44:55 AM PDT by Coleus
Below is a list of President Bush's pro-life efforts and accomplishments in regard to protecting children in the womb and promoting the sanctity of life. I include some accomplishments in other areas but mostly focus on his pro-life record. This list is by no means comprehensive. When considering other issues much more could be added to the list of positive things that Bush has done since he has been in office.
I started to compile this list shortly after the President was reinaugurated after hearing from many, who consider themselves pro-life, that Bush was not really pro-life. I disagreed and began compiling this list. I had no idea when I started that it would be so long.
Some may ask if President Bush is so pro-life why hasn't abortion ended. President Bush has not had an opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court Justice. Also, in practically every effort to protect the unborn President Bush has been opposed mostly by pro-abortion Democrats.
Is President Bush perfect? No. Do I agree with him on everything? No. But I look at his overall record and consider the alternative. Senator Kerry is a pro-abortion extremist. He has pledged to only appoint pro-abortion judges to the Supreme Court who will uphold Roe vs. Wade.
I plan to vote for President Bush for re-election and I hope you will do the same.
Fr. Peter West
January 22, 2001 President Bush Reinstates Mexico City Policy (bans use of U.S. money for organizations that promote abortion overseas)
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/01-29-01/mexicocity.html
March 22, 2001 President Bush Helps Dedicate Pope John Paul II Cultural Center http://www.nrlc.org/news/2001/NRL04/
"The Pope reminds us that while freedom defines our nation, responsibility must define our lives," the President said. "He challenges us to live up to our aspirations, to be a fair and just society where all are welcomed, all
are valued, and all are protected. And he is never more eloquent than when he speaks for a culture of life. The culture of life is a welcoming culture, never excluding, never dividing, never despairing and always affirming the
goodness of life in all its seasons."
March 28, 2001 Reuters reports "Bush issues abortion rule order, outflanks Senate"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/bush_abortionrights010122.html
April 17, 2001 President Bush Restricts RU-86 Funding and Close White House Feminist Office
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/apr/01040303.html
April 24, 2001 Bush Bans Sex Films from Air Force One
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_270918.html
April 25, 2001 President Bush appoints Fatherhood proponent
http://www.familiesnorthwest.org/dynpage.cfm?DPID=65
April 30, 2001 Proclamation - National Day of Prayer
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010430-2.html
May 16, 2001 U.S. House Backs President Bush in Denying Funds to Overseas Groups That Promote Abortion Legalization
http://www.consistentlife.org/US%20House%20Upholds%20Pro-life%20Mexico%20City%20Policy.htm
May 17, 2001 Bush Administration Begins Effort to Put Pro-Life Advocates on International Panels Source: Washington Post
May 21, 2001 Further Analysis Shows Bush's First Judicial Picks Promising Source: Pro-Life Infonet
May 26 Bush Overrules Powell on Nominee Appoints Pro-lifer to Important State Department Post
http://tennesseerighttolife.org/news_center/archives/05262001-03.htm
June 1, 2001 Bush Won't Issue Gay Proclamation, Opts Out of Gay Pride Day Source: Associated Press
June 21, 2001 Bush Supports Strongest Pro-Life Ban on Human Cloning Source: Associated Press
July 6, 2001 Bush Administration Awards Abstinence Grants to CPCs, Pro-Life Groups
August 13, 2001 Bush Would Veto Any Funding of Additional ESCR
August 16, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft recently warned that less than 10 % of judges nominated by Bush have even had a hearing before the Democratically led Senate Judiciary Committee
August 28, 2001 Bush Won't Back Down to the United Nations on Abortion Source: Reuters
October 15, 2001 Bush Administration Awards Adoption Awareness Grants- HHS Press Release
November 7, 2001 White House and Lawmakers Fight Pro-Abortion Amendments
November 7, 2001 Democratically Led Senate Attempts to Weaken Pro-Life Policies Are Blocked by Veto Threats and Pro-Life Lawmakers
December 5, 2001 Bush Selects Pro-Life Ex-Gov to Head Republican Party
December 10, 2002 Changes in the White House (from the Patriot's Herald)
http://www.patriotsherald.com/content/changed.php
January 31, 2002 Bush Administration Proposes Coverage of Unborn Children in Health Insurance http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/jan/02013106.html
February 26, 2002 President Bush's Remarks at St. Luke's Catholic Church
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/images/20020226-11.html
September 27, 2002 Bush Administration Finalizes Coverage of Unborn Child in Health Insurance http://www.vshl.org/press/2002/nrlc_20020927.shtml
January 18, 2002 Bush Declares Sanctity of Life Day January 20, 2002
http://www.priestsforlife.org/government/02-01-18bush.htm
January 22, 2002 Remarks By President Bush in Phone Call to March For Life Participants http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/jan/020122a.html
January 20, 2002 President Bush Seeks Increased Abstinence Funding Source: Associated Press
January 31, 2002 Bush Administration Classifies Developing Fetus as Unborn Child Source: Associated Press
States may classify a developing fetus as an "unborn child" eligible for government health care, the Bush administration said Thursday, giving low-income women access to prenatal care and bolstering the arguments of
abortion opponents.
February 1, 2002 President Bush has chosen an advocate for the aging who once worked with Mother Teresa to head his revamped effort to provide federal funds to religious charities. See the interview with Jim Towey in Crisis Magazine http://www.crisismagazine.com/june2002/feature6.htm
February 2, 2002 President Bush's Sincere Appreciation For Prayers Said For Him http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/bushprayerreq.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/624592/posts
February 26, 2002 The President's Welfare Reform focuses on families, abstinence and work http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0019805.html
March 6, 2002 Bush's National Institute of Health Nominee Supports Complete Ban on Human Cloning Source: Washington Post, Baltimore Sun
March 14, 2002 Democratically led Senate quashes Nomination of Pro-Life Judge Charles Pickering
http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/NEWS/newspage.asp?story=918
April 8, 2002 President Bush Will Speak to Pro-Life Leaders Wednesday Source: National Right to Life News
April 10, 2002 President Bush's Remarks in Opposition to Human Cloning
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html
April 11, 2002 President Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban http://www.nrlc.org/nv041102.html
April 11, 2002 UN Decides Against Cairo+10, Fears Bush Administration Source: Friday Fax
May 2, 2002 Proclamation National Day of Prayer http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/media/president.cfm
May 2, 2002 Bush Administration Opposing Abortion at UN Child Conference Source: Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
May 23, 2002 Pro-Life Judge D. Brook Smith confirmed for Third Circuit Court of Appeals http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/SHAKE/shakeHome.asp
May 26, 2002 Atheist loses bid to halt Bush's faith references
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/2882530p-3704157c.html
May 31, 2002 Crisis Magazine Editor Evaluates Bush's Relations With U.S.
Catholics http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200206/0009.html
July 9, 2002 Pro-Abortion Groups Attack Bush Judicial Nominee- Priscilla Owen
Source: Reported by Associated Press
July 22, 2002 Bush Administration Withholds UNFPA Money Source: Associated Press
July 24, 2002 Bush Announces Initiavtive to Encourage Adoptoin of Children in Foster Care http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/07/20020723.html
July 29, 2002 Bush Inherited a Weak Economy: By January 2001 when Bush took office Nasdaq tumbled 46% off its peak and the GDP had decelerated to 1.9% in the quarter just ended from 5.7% just six months earlier.
Source: Editorial in Investors Business Daily
August 5, 2002 Bush Signs Born-Alive Infants Protection Act Source: National Right to Life Committee
http://www.nrlc.org/Federal/Born_Alive_Infants/
September 17, 2002 NARAL Opposes Michael McConnell's Nomination to the Tenth Circuit Court Of Appeals
Statement of NARAL President Kate Michelman
http://www.naral.org/mediaresources/press/2002/pr091702_mcconnell.html
October 3, 2002 Democrat-Controlled U.S. Senate Kills Pro-Life Bills Favored by President Bush and Passed by U.S. House
http://www.nrlc.org/Federal/LegUpdates/Congressionalwrapup100302.html
* The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965), passed by the House on July 24, 2002, 274-151.
* The Weldon-Stupak-Brownback legislation to ban all human cloning, including the cloning of human embryos (H.R. 2505, S. 1899), passed by the House on July 31, 2001, 265-162.
* The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 503), a bill to recognize as a legal victim any unborn child who is injured or killed during commission of a federal crime, passed by the House on April 26, 2001, 252-172.
* The Child Custody Protection Act (H.R. 476), to make it a crime to take a minor across state lines for a secret abortion, if this abridges her parents ' right to be involved under their home-state law, passed by the House on
April 17, 2002, 260-161.
* The Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 4691), to prohibit state and local governments from discriminating against hospitals and other health care providers for refusing to participate in abortions, passed by the House
on September 25, 2002, 229-189.
October 6, 2002 President Bush Building Strong Pro-Life Record
Source: Boston Globe
October 14, 2002 White House staffers gather for Voluntary Bible Study Voluntary Meetings
Source: USA Today
October 17, 2002 Germany Attacks Bush Administration Position Against All Human Cloning
Source: Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
October 29, 2002 Pro-Abortion Group and Senator Daschle jointly appeal for pro-abortion Senate- Reported by National Right to Life Source: Email Sent From NARAL
October 29, 2002 Pro-Abortion Group opposes nomination of Dr. W. David Hager to chair the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. Hager is a member groups like Christian Medical Association and Physicians
Resource Council for Focus on the Family Source: California Abortion Rights Action League http://www.caral.org/alert_current.html
October 30, 2002 Bush Directs Advisory Committee to Protect Human Embryos
Source: Associated Press,Washington Post
October 31, 2002 Pro-Life Groups Applaud Bush Decision on Human Embryos
Source:Cybercast News Service
November 1, 2002 Bush backs away from reproductive health pact
Source: Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4424134.htm
November 8, 2002 Bush Administration Fights for UN to Oppose All Human Cloning
Source: Reuters
November 8, 2002 Bush Right to Oppose Abortion at International Meetings
Source: Population Resource Institute
November 14, 2002 White House Pressures Congress to Keep Military Abortion Ban
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
Novermber 18, 2002 Pro-Abortion Senators May Filibuster Pro-Life Judicial Nominee
Source: NY Times, National Review
November 19, 2002 Senate Approves Pro-Life Judicial Nominee
Source:Associated Press
November 19, 2002 Bush Administration Opposition Continues to Derail Fake UN Cloning Ban
Source: Associated Press
November 21, 2002 Bush Nominee for FDA Panel Says RU 486 Unsafe
Source: Cybercast News Service
November 25, 2002 Abortion Advocates Bash Bush's Pro-Life Foreign Policy
Source: Cybercast News Service
November 26, 2002 Don't Believe the Media Portrayal of Bush as Not Pro-Life
Source: by Paul Weyrich Cybercast News Service
November 27, 2002 Radicals Attack Bush Because of UN Pro-life Stance
Source: Austin Ruse of Friday Fax
December 3, 2002 Ralph Neas of the Pro-Abortion Group People For The American Way President Bush for Nominating Pro-Life Judges
Source: People For the American Way
December 9, 2002 Bush Administration Cracks Down on Illegally Imported Abortion Drugs
Source: Associated Press
December 10, 2002 Bush May Nominate Pro-Life Supreme Court, Appeals Court Justices
Source: New York Times, U.S. News and World Report
December 12, 2002 Bush Srongly Condemns Racism While Promoting Faith Based Initiatives
See the President's Remarks at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20021212-3.html
December 12, 2002 Congressional Letter Supports Bush Opposition to International Abortion Advocacy
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
December 15, 2002 UN Population Summit Begins, Bush Administration Battles Abortion Advocates
Source: Associated Press, Knight Ridder Newspapers
December 17, 2002 Bush Admin. Called 'Heroic' For Opposing Abortion At Population Summit
Source: Cybercast News Service
December 20, 2002 The chairman of President Bush's bioethics council , Dr.
Leon R. Kass of the University of Chicago, accused Stanford University
today of trying to conceal the true nature of its stem cell research plan.
Source: Associated Press:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15872-2002Dec20?language=printer
December 26, 2002 Bush Admin Appoints Pro-Life Doc to FDA Panel
Source: Associated Press
December 27, 2002 US Attacked for Pro-life Stance at UN Conference in
Bangkok
Source: Friday Fax
December 31, 2002 Abortion Opponent Is Named to Panel On Women's Health
Source: Associated Press
January 3, 2003 Pro-Abortion Groups Hope Bush Won't Renominate Owens
Source: Associated Press
Lt Col. Rick Jones HQ USAF/ILMY speaks about meeting Bush at the Pentagon:
http://www.ahherald.com/window_redbank/wrb011101_close.htm
January 7, 2003 Bush Renominates Pro-Life Judicial Candidates
Source: Associated Press
Planned Parenthood Attacks Bush on Pro-Life Record
Source: Planned Parenthodd's Website:
http://www.saveroe.com/wow/chronology/wow_chronology_dec00.asp
January 14, 2003 President Bush Declares Sanctity of Human Life Day
Source: Associated Press Also see:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030114-13.html
January 22, 2003 Bush Addresses Pro-Lifers Assembled For March For Life
http://www.righttoliferoch.org/nmfl2003bush.htm
January 22, 2003 Bush Admin Diverts UNFPA Funds to Maternal Health Programs
Source: Reuters
January 25, 2003 Abortion Advocates Attack Another Bush Pro-Life Judicial
Nominee
Source: Los Angeles Times
January 27, 2003 Pro-Abortion Feminist Majority Opposes Bush's Latest
Pro-Life Woman Judicial Nominee
Source: Feminist Daily News Wire:
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7465
January 28, 2003 President Bush Calls for Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion and Human Cloning in His State of the Union Address Source: Pro-Life Infonet See also: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html
"By caring for children who need mentors, and for addicted men and women who need treatment, we are building a more welcoming society - a culture that values every life. And in this work we must not overlook the weakest among us. I ask you to protect infants at the very hour of birth, and end the practice of partial-birth abortion. And because no human life should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I ask you to set a high standard for humanity and pass a law against all human cloning."
January 28, 2003 NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE APPLAUDS BUSH STATEMENTS ON PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION, HUMAN CLONING, AND HEALTH CARE RATIONING
Source: Press Release from the National Right to Life Committee
January 30, 2003 Pro-Abortion Democrats Block Aid to Women in Afghanistan
Source: Friday Fax
January 30, 2003 PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCES NEW $300 MILLION MENTORING PROGRAM FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
Source: Press release from the U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/01-2003/01302003a.html
February 1, 2003 Pro-Abortion Groups Urge Filibuster of Bush Judicial Nomination
Source: National Right to Life
February 6, 2003 Bush Will Veto Spending Bill That Doesn't Ban Abortion Funding
Source: Washington Times, Washington Post
February 11, 2003 Senate Democrats Say They Can Block Bush Judicial Nominee
Source: Associated Press
February 12, 2003 The new guidelines, part of President Bush's No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001, will affect schools across the country.
The guidelines state:Students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of their submissions.
Source: Courier Post Online
http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/february/m022303d.htm
Max Lucado with President Bush (Bush says he feels stronger than ever because of all the people praying for him:
http://www.stjohnsmarysville.org/notes-n-news.htm
February 17, 2003 Bush may tap California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a conservative judge who ruled against affirmative action and abortion rights, if a spot opens on the U.S. Supreme Court
Source: Newsweek
February 17, 2003 President Bush May Deny AIDS Funding to Pro-Abortion Groups
Source: Associated Press
Why and How the Military Salutes President Bush Source: The Patriot's Herald http://www.patriotsherald.com/content/salute.php
February 26, 2003 White House condemns "human embryo farms" amendment
Source: National Right to Life
February 26, 2003 President Bush Urges Congress to Vote for Pro-Life Cloning Ban
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
February 27, 2003 California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Urges Senators to Oppose Bush's Pro-Life Nominees to U.S. Court of appeals: Miguel Estrada and Jeffrey Sutton Source: email from California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
March 4, 2003 Paige lauds Stanford school-reform plan
Education Secretary Rod Paige yesterday applauded a report by a Stanford University think thank that calls on federal and state governments to "explore additional forms of school choice, pushing far beyond the boundaries of within-district public school choice."
Source: Washington Times
March 5, 2003 Newsweek Profiles Bush as Most Religious President of Recent Times
Source: Newsweek
March 11, 2003 Bush Administration Issues Statement Supporting Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
March 13, 2003 Senate G.O.P. Holds Firm as Vote on Abortion Nears
Source: New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A10FA385A0C708DDDAA0894DB4
04482
March 13, 2003 Senate Passes Partial-Birth Abortion Ban by Wide Margin
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
March 13, 2003 Bush Pro-Life Judicial Nominee Texas Supreme Court Judge
Priscilla Owen May Receive Vote Soon
Source: Associated Press
March 24, 2003 Bush Administration Provides Record Funding for Abstinence
Education
Source: Washington Times
March 20, 2003 Another Bush Pro-Life Judicial Nominee - Carolyn Will Be
Smeared By Liberals
Source: Traditional Values Coalition
http://traditionalvalues.org/print.php?sid=818
March 27, 2003 Senate Judiciary Committee Confirms Bush Pro-Life Judicial
Nomineee - Priscilla Owen
Source: Associated Press
March 31, 2003 California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
Urges Senator Feinstein to Oppose Bush's Pro-Life Nominee to the Court of
the Appeals - Judge Carolyn Kuhl
Source: email from California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
April 8, 2003 California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
Urges Senators to Oppose Bush Pro-Life Judicial Nomineee - Priscilla Owen
Source: email from California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
April 12, 2003Touching Story About Bush Praying For Wounded Troops on Visit
to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Source:
http://www.heinvites.org/fullStory.php3/0615.html and
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/injured.asp
April 10, 2003 Senate Committee Will Vote This Month on Next Bush Pro-Life
Judicial Nominee - Carolyn Kuhl Source: Pro-Life Infonet
April 10, 2003 President Bush Nominates Another Pro-Lifer for Judicial Spot - Alabama's Pro-Life Attorney General Bill Pryor
Source: Mobile Register
April 15, 2003 God-Free School Zones U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige is under fire for defending religious freedom OpinionJournal.Com
April 15, 2003 President Cites the "Power of Prayer" in POW Safety Returning from Camp David on Sunday, President Bush was asked after gettingoff the helicopter what role faith and prayer had in the rescue of the POWs and in comforting their families. He said, "A lot of them told me they had been sustained by prayer, been comforted by the Almighty during what had to have been very difficult times. They told me that they felt their prayers had been answered. Prayer is powerful
Source: Presidential Prayer Team [PrayerTeam@PresidentialPrayerTeam.org]
April 17, 2003 Schumer: Catholics Need Not Apply: Ken Connor President of Family Research Council Criticizes New York Senator Chuck Schumer for Opposing Bush's Catholic Pro-Life Judicial Nominees
April 17, 2003 President's Easter Message
For Christians, the life and death of Jesus are the ultimate expressions of love, and the supreme demonstrations of God's mercy, faithfulness, and redemption. Since Christ's miraculous Resurrection on Easter, more than 2,000 years ago, Christians have expressed joy and gratitude for this wondrous sacrifice and for God's promise of freedom for the oppressed, healing for the brokenhearted, and salvation. For the full message see:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030417-3.html
April 18, 2003 Another Judge Comes Under Attack Summary: Pro-abortion Democrats now have another Bush judicial target to smear: Leon Holmes. Source: A Note From Traditional Value Coalition's Executive Director Andrea Lafferty
April 19, 2003 Bush Admin Allows States to Insure Unborn Children Through CHIP
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
April 22, 2003 The Constitution Be Damned: Democrats try to impose a religious test on judges.
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
April 24, 2003 Bush's Pro-Life Judicial Appointments Need Your Help
Source: Pro-Life Infonet
Over the last few months, the Pro-Life Infonet has reported on several pro-life nominees President Bush has appointed to various judicial positions.
Some of these nominees have track records of upholding pro-life legislation or publicizing their view that Roe v. Wade is bad law. Others have pledged to uphold the rule of law and not legislatie from the bench -- attributes
that call for respecting the right of state legislatures to pass laws that limit abortion.
Below is an overview of eight judicial nominees that deserve your support and backgrounds on them and their nominations:
Miguel Estrada -- Nominated for the Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington D.C., the second highest court unde the Supreme Court and a stepping stone to a later Supreme Court appointed, Estrada was brought to the Senate floor earlier this year. He does not believe that the Constitution guarantees a right to abortion. Some senators are blocking Estrada's confirmation vote by engaging in a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) failed in four attempts to cut off debate (known as cloture), garnering only 55 of the 60 votes needed. It is unclear whether he whether he will try again. Tell your Senators to stop the filibuster.
Jeffrey Sutton -- Sutton was nominated for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. The full Senate began consideration of the Sutton nomination before the Easter
recess, but did not vote. They will resume debate on Tuesday, April 29th and probably vote that same day. The pro-abortion Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice joined other organizations in a letter which says, in
part, "Jeffrey Sutton's ... confirmation to a lifetime position on the federal bench threatens to dismantle the important gains that have been critical to women's success and we urge you to reject his nomination."
Priscilla Owen -- Nominated for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Owen was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in March in a straight party-line vote. As a Texas Supreme Court justice, Owen frequently voted to uphold Texas' parental notification statute and refused to allow teen girls to have abortions without their parents' knowledge. Unable to get opponents to agree not to filibuster Owen, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has been indefinite about when he will seek a confirmation vote, but it may be in early May.
John Roberts -- Roberts was nominated for the Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington D.C., and was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. As a Justice Department official in the 1990s, he argued that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and actively promoted efforts to get that decision overturned. In one brief he argued that pro-life protesters outside abortion businesses did not discriminate against women. He
supported a pro-life measure prohibiting federally-funded family planning facilities from referring for abortions. The Roberts nomination has not yet come to the Senate floor, but could come up in May.
Deborah Cook -- Cook was nominated by President Bush for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. As an elected justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, Cook's candidacy was endorsed by Ohio Right to Life. Her nomination is expected to come to the Senate floor in May.
Carolyn Kuhl -- Nominated for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate Judiciary Committee has not yet to act on her nomination, but is expected to do so in May. As a Justice Department official in the 1980s Kuhl aggressively argued for the outright reversal of Roe v. Wade. As an attorney in private practice in the early 1990s she represented a pro-life physicians group and argued in support of limiting abortion referrals at
federally-funded family planning facilities.
Charles Pickering -- He has been nominated for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate Judiciary Committee has not yet brought him in for a hearing, but is expected to do so in May. He once chaired a national
Republican initiative that approved a plank for the party platform decrying the Roe v. Wade decision "as an intrusion into the family structure," and calling for a right-to-life amendment to the constitution. His son Chip
Pickering is a pro-life Congressman from Mississippi.
J. Leon Holmes - Holmes has been nominated for the Federal District Court in Arkansas. The Senate Judiciary Committee has not yet acted on his nomination, but could do so in May. He is a strong pro-life advocate and
the former president of Arkansas Right to Life.
April 25, 2003 WHITE HOUSE CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF THE UNBORN
VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT "THIS YEAR"-- PRESIDENT BUSH BELIEVES THAT WHEN AN
UNBORN CHILD IS INJURED OR KILLED IN A CRIME OF VIOLENCE, "SUCH A CRIME HAS
TWO VICTIMS"
Source: National Right to Life Committee
April 28, 2003 Pro-Abortion Feminists criticize female court picks
Source: Washington Times:
http://www.WashTimes.com/national/20030428-81797318.htm
April 30, 2003 Bush Selects Another Pro-Life Appeals Court Nominee
Extending his streak of picking pro-life advocates, or those willing to uphold pro-life legislation, for important U.S. Appeals Court positions, President Bush on Monday nominated Claude Allen to the Richmond-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.
Source: Washington Post, Richmond Times Dispatch
(Allen helped draft Virginia's parental notification law and supported a pro-life law requiring abortion facilities to give women information about abortion's risks and alternatives 24 hours prior to performing an abortion.
Similar laws in other states have significantly reduced the number of abortions.)
May 1, 2003 Democrat Senators Block Bush's Pro-Life Judicial Picks Source:
Associated Press
May 5, 2003 Senate Approves Pro-Life Judicial Nominee, Continues Filibuster
Judicial nominee Deborah Cook, denied even a hearing let alone a vote by the previous Democratic-led Senate, won confirmation on Monday from the Republican-controlled Senate.
Cook was nominated by President Bush for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. As an elected justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, Cook's candidacy was
endorsed by Ohio Right to Life, and she cast a pro-life vote in one case that reached the state's top court.
On a largely party-line vote of 66-25, the Senate approved Cook's nearly two-year-old bid to elevate the Ohio Supreme Court justice to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The court would handle appeals of
legislation, including pro-life bills, from Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Michigan.
Also on Monday, Republicans tried and failed for a fifth time to stop a Democratic filibuster of another long-stalled judicial nominee, Miguel Estrada.
Source: Reuters, CBS News
May 19, 2003 Pro-Abortion National Organization of Women Opposes Pro-Life Bush Judicial Nominee Judge Leon Holmes Source: NOW's
website http://www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/holmes.html
May 5, 2003 Bush Administration Deserves Credit for Abstinence Victory
The White House got personally involved in last week's passage of pro-abstinence amendments to a global AIDS bill and the result was good news for pro-life advocates.
Pro-family groups were delighted last week when two abstinence-friendly amendments were attached to an otherwise disappointing Global AIDS bill. Now they're finding out what turned the tide: The White House did some heavy-duty lobbying.
Source: Focus on the Family
May 16, 2003 Senate Will Reconsider Another Pro-Life Judicial Nominee Soon
Republicans plan in coming weeks to take up the nomination of pro-life U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pickering of Mississippi, who likely faces a filibuster on the Senate floor by Democrats.
Judge Pickering's nomination to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals was spiked last year on a party-line vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was controlled by Democrats at the time. President Bush renominated
him in January.
Pickering once chaired a national Republican initiative that approved a plank for the party platform decrying the Roe v. Wade decision "as an intrusion into the family structure," and calling for a right-to-life amendment to the constitution. His son Chip Pickering is a pro-life Congressman from Mississippi.
Source: Washington Times
June 12, 2003 Bush Judicial Nominee Pryor Condemns Abortion in Senate
Hearing
President Bush's latest Appeals Court nominee Bill Pryor told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that abortion is "murder" and that the court case legalizing it is "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law."
Source: Washington Times
June 12, 2003 The Judicial Nominee Who Wouldn't Back Down - Bill Pryor
Source: Byron York columnist for National Review Online
June 12, 2003 Catholic Bishops' Spokesman Testifies at Presidential
Commission
Today the President's Council on Bioethics heard testimony on the values and principles that ought to govern policy on human embryo research. Richard Doerflinger, Deputy Director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, was among the expert witnesses for the meeting.
Source: Pro-life Infonet
June 12, 2003 Pro-Abortion Groups Create Coalition to Oppose Pro-Life Nominees
Nine pro-abortion groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, have formed a joint not-for-profit organization aimed specifically at opposing a potential Supreme Court nominee who does not support abortion.
Source: Roll Call, Wall St. Journal
July 20, 2003 Foes Halt Vote on School Vouchers; Democrats Reject Senate's
D.C. Bill
Source: Washington Post
July 21, 2003 Pro-Abortion Democrat Senators Stall Partial-Birth Abortion
Ban http://www.lifenews.com/nat49.html Source: LifeNews.Com
July 22,2003 Bush Administration Renews Support for Zero UNFPA Funding
Source: LifeNews.Com
July 22, 2003 Bush Administration Signals Zero for UNFPA
Source: Population Research Institute Weekly Briefing
July 23, 2003 Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Pryor Nomination,
Filibuster Likely http://www.lifenews.com/nat53.html Source: LifeNews.Com
July 27, 2003 Bush Nominates Pro-Life Black Woman to Nation's Second Highest
http://www.lifenews.com/nat57.html Source: LifeNews.Com
July 29, 2003 Senate Rejects Vote on Owen for Third Time
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- For the third time, members of the Senate rejected an attempt to close off debate and take a vote on one of President Bush's pro-life judicial nominees.Pro-abortion Senators were able to deny the 60 votes needed to stop debate on the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals. The 53-43 vote proved, once again, that a majority would back Owen's confirmation if debate could be stopped. All Republicans were in favor of the vote to end debate and were joined by Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) and pro-life Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE). Presidential candidates John Edwards (D-NC), Bob Graham (D-FL), John Kerry (D-MA), and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) were not present for the vote. Owen is opposed by abortion advocates because she voted to uphold a Texas parental notification law that prohibited teenage girls from having
abortions without the involvement of their parents.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat59.html
July 30, 2003 Senate Votes Against Cloture on Estrada Nomination
http://www.lifenews.com/nat61.html Source: LifeNews.Com
July 31, 2003 Bill Pryor Becomes Latest Victim of Senate Filibuster
http://www.lifenews.com/nat62.html Source: LifeNews.Com
July 31, 2003 ADF Special News Alert: Thank You Mr. President for Supporting
Marriage!
Source: Alliance Defense Fund
August 6, 2003 Knights of Columbus Condemns Treatment of Catholic Judicial Nominees http://www.lifenews.com/nat68.html Source: LifeNews.Com
August 6, 2003 Minnesota Plan to Cover Unborn Children Receives Bush
Administration Approval http://www.lifenews.com/state75.html Source:
LifeNews. Com
August 10, 2003 Group Will Spend $75M to Defeat Bush, Elect Pro-Aborts in
2004 http://www.lifenews.com/nat72.html Source: LifeNews.Com
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new political group, funded by billionaire George Soros and run by a former employee of a leading pro-abortion organization, plans to spend $75 million in grassroots activism
to target pro-life President George W. Bush for defeat in 2004.
August 10, 2003 Civil Rights Leader Quits NAACP Over Bush Judicial Nominees
http://www.lifenews.com/nat73.html Source: LifeNews.Com
August 13, 2003 Presidential Commission Discusses Regulation of In Vitro Fertilization http://www.lifenews.com/oped10.html Source: Austin Ruse, President of the Culture of Life Foundation
August 14, 2003 Catholic Theologian Michael Novak Praises President Bush
http://nationalreview.com/novak/novak081403.asp Source: National Review Online
August 27, 2003 Bush Administration Defunds AIDS Program Over Abortion Group's Participation http://www.lifenews.com/nat88.html Source: LifeNews.Com
August 27, 2003 State Department Defunds British Abortion Provider
Source: New York Times
August 29, 2003 State Department Defunds Large Abortion Provider
Source: Friday Fax
August 29, 2003 Bush Orders United States Agency for International Development to Stop Funding Organizations That Promote Abortion
Source: Copy of Memo From the White House
September 1, 2003 Bush Administration Expands Pro-Life Mexico City Policy
http://www.lifenews.com/nat93.html Source: LifeNews.Com
September 5, 2003 Bush Orders State Department To Stop Funding Foreign
Abortion Groups
Source: Friday Fax
September 5, 2003 Miguel Estrada Withdraws Name From Consideration http://www.lifenews.com/nat99.html Source: LifeNews.Com (This shows the importance of electing pro-life Senators who will vote to end the Democrats filibuster of President Bush's pro-life judicial nominees.)
September 6, 2003 Pro-Abortion Democratic Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) introduces measure to overturn the Mexico City Policy Reinstituted By President Bush (The Mexico City Policy prevents our federal tax dollars from
being used to promote abortion overseas.) Source: LifeNews.Com
September 18, 2003 Bush Administration Pursues Total Human Cloning Ban at U.N.
Source: LifeNews.Com
September 28, 2003 Department of Health and Housing Services Gives $100 million in Bonuses to States for Reducing Abortions HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced the award of $100 million
in bonuses to four states (Maryland, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas), the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands for achieving the nation's largest decreases in out-of-wedlock births between 1998 and 2001. Source:
LifeNews.Com
October 1, 2003 Bush Administration Denies UNFPA Funding Again
http://www.lifenews.com/intl21.html Source: LifeNews.Com
October 2, 2003 Pickering Nomination Approved by Committee, Moves to Full
Senate http://www.lifenews.com/nat148.html Source: LifeNews.Com
October 3, 2003 Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry (D-MA) Says
Bush Judicial Appointments Would Hurt Abortion Rights
Source: LifeNews.Com
October 3, 2003 President Bush Proclaims Oct. 12-18 Marriage Protection Week
President Bush said:
"Marriage is a sacred institution, and its protection is essential to the continued strength of our society.Marriage is a union between a man and a woman, and my Administration is working to support the institution of marriage by helping couples build successful marriages and be good parents.Research has shown that, on average, children raised in households headed by married parents fare much better than children who grow up in other family structures.We must support the institution of marriage and help parents build stronger families."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031003-12.html
Source: White House
Weapons of Mass Destruction for People with Short Memories!!
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line?" - President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." - President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face." - Madeline Albright, Feb. 18, 1998 "He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten
times since 1983." - Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb., 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weaponsof mass destruction programs." - Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." - Rep. Nancy
Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." - Madeline Albright, Clinton
Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has invigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition,Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." - Letter to President
Bush, Signed by Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL,) and others, Dec, 5, 2001
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them." - Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to
build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons..." - Sen. Robert Byrd (D, WV), Oct. 3, 2002
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a
real and grave threat to our security." - Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction." - Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct. 10, 2002
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do" Rep. - Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members .. It is clear, however, that if
left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct. 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." -
Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to Miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real - Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 SO NOW THE DEMOCRATS SAY PRESIDENT BUSH LIED, THAT THERE NEVER WERE ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND HE TOOK US TO WAR FOR HIS OIL BUDDIES???
October 6, 2003 FDA Investigating Holly Patterson's RU 486 Abortion Death
http://www.lifenews.com/nat152.html Source: LifeNews.Com
October 26, 2003 President Bush's Bioethics Commission Warns of
Human-Animal Babies http://www.lifenews.com/bio112.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 7, 2003 President Bush Proclaims November National Adoption Month
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031107-12.html Source: White House
July 23, 2002 President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush announced a new initiative to increase public awareness and encourage Americans to consider adoption of children in foster care.
Helping Children and Building Families Through Adoption
President Bush announced a new public service advertising campaign, featuring First Lady Laura Bush and actor Bruce Willis, to encourage Americans to adopt children in foster care. The President also tapped Bruce
Willis to serve as a national spokesperson for children in foster care.
The President also announced the creation of the first federal and only national web site that focuses on waiting children - www.AdoptUSKids.org - that will reduce the geographic barriers and waiting time needed to connect
children from across the country with adoptive families. In its first year, it will feature pictures and profiles of over 6,500 children from 46 states who are available for adoption, as well as a database of approved adoptive
families. Background on Today's Presidential Action
More than 130,000 of the 565,000 American children in foster care, ranging in age from toddlers to teenagers, are waiting to be adopted. On average, these children have been in foster care for almost four years. Most of these children have special needs that limit their ability to be adopted, such as being part of a sibling group that wishes to stay together, belonging to a particular ethnic group, or having physical or emotional challenges. These
children are adoptable; in fact, in 2000, over 50,000 children in foster care were adopted. But recruiting a family that can meet the special needs of a particular child can be challenging, especially when the right family may live in a different state or county.
President Bush believes that every child in America deserves to live in a safe, permanent and loving family. Today, the President announced:
Adoption Public Service Advertisement (PSA): The adoption PSA will feature the First Lady and actor Bruce Willis. It will also highlight a new website and toll-free number for interested families to receive adoption information and be referred to their State adoption specialist. Additionally, President Bush has asked Bruce Willis to serve as a national spokesperson for children
in foster care.
First Federal Adoption Web Site and Internet Photolisting: www.AdoptUSKids.org, an Internet adoption photolisting service, will help connect waiting children from across the country with loving adoptive families. The site provides prospective adoptive parents with a private, secure place to communicate interactively with other families and adoption experts - especially useful for families living in rural areas. Social workers will be able to follow inquiries from families approved to adopt and respond to them instantly through the site. AdoptUSKids is an initiative of the Children's Bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services, and it is currently operated by the National Adoption Center. President Bush's Commitment to Promoting Adoption
Promoting adoption and supporting families who adopt: On January 17, 2002, the President signed the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Amendment Act to help States provide services to promote adoption for children in foster care and provide post-adoption support to families so that they can stay strong and their children reach their potential. The President's FY 03 budget strongly supports the Promoting Safe and Stable Families program with an increase of more than $130 million over FY 02 levels.
Adoption Tax Credit: The tax relief bill that the President signed last year permanently extends and increases the adoption tax credit from $5,000 per child to $10,000 per child for qualified adoption expenses. For special needs adoptions, it increases the credit from $6,000, for qualified adoption expenses, to $10,000, regardless of expenses.
October 25, 2003 President Bush Proclaims Protection From Pornography Week
Source: White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031025-1.html
October 28, 2003 President Bush Says Restoring Terri's Feeding Tube Was
Right Decision http://www.lifenews.com/bio116.html Source: LifeNews.Com
October 31, 2003 Pro-Abortion [Democratic] Lawmakers Filibuster Pickering
Nomination http://www.lifenews.com/nat178.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 3, 2003 Bush Administration Still Pushing for UN Cloning Ban,
VoteThursday http://www.lifenews.com/intl25.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 5, 2003 President Bush Signs Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of
2003 Source: LifeSite News lsn@lifesite.net also see
http://www.lifenews.com/nat189.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031105-1.html
Priests for Life on Partial-birth Abortion: 'We Have Turned A Corner'
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=108-11052003
November 5, 2003 Pro-Abortion Groups Start Ad Campaigns Blasting President Bush http://www.lifenews.com/nat188.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 6, 2003 Democrats Filibuster Pryor Nomination, Judiciary Approves Brown http://www.lifenews.com/nat194.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 7, 2003 President Bush Shows Strong Pro-Life Beliefs in Private Meetings http://www.lifenews.com/nat197.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 7, 2003 Pro-Abortion Democratic Senators Again Filibuster Judicial Nominees. Sen. Majority Leader Frist Announces All Night Session Next Week to Force Pro-Abortion Democratic Senators to defend
their filibuster. Source: Marie Tasy, Legislative Director of New Jersey Right to Life
November 7, 2003 President Bush targeted for defeat by one of the richest men in world George Soros Targets President Bush Source: Marie Tasy, Legislative Director of New Jersey Right to Life
See also: [Pro-Abortion] Billionaire Soros Overthrows Georgian Gov't - Sets Sights on Bush & Croatia Source: LifeNews.com
See also the Zenit report and the Globe coverage:
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=45785
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031126.wxsoros1126/BNStory/Front/
Billionaire De-Populationist George Soros Donates $10 Million to Defeat Bush
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/aug/03081109.html
November 7, 2003 President Bush Proclaims National Adoption Month Source:
White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/11/20031107-12.html
November 11, 2003 Bush Administration Seeks to Speed Up Partial-Birth
Abortion Lawsuits Source: LifeNews.Com
November 12, 2003 Senate Will Hold Marathon Debate on Pro-Life Judicial
Nominees http://www.lifenews.com/nat205.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 13, 2003 Senate Debates Pro-Life Judicial Nominees, Bush Demands
Vote http://www.lifenews.com/nat207.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 14, 2003 Millionaire Plans to Spend $12 Million to Defeat Bush in
2004 Source: LifeNews.Com
November 17, 2003 [Colin] Powell reveals he teaches sexual abstinence to
girls http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=464467
November 18, 2003 Pro-Abortion Groups at UN Criticize Bush Resolution
Promoting Women http://www.lifenews.com/intl29.html Source: LifeNews.Com
November 19, 2003 First Lady Laura Bush Backs Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Source: LifeNews.com
November 25, 2003 The new Health Savings Accounts (HSA) provision included in the Medicare bill just passed the Senate 54-44 and soon will be signed by the President. The new law will go into effect January 1, 2004. All 250 million non-elderly Americans will now have access to a Medical Savings Account, and one that is far more attractive than the Archer MSAs that were enacted in 1996. Source: Mike O'Dea of CHRISTUS MEDICUS FOUNDATION
November 25, 2003 Discovery of Internal Memos Details Opposition to Pro-Life Judges
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat227.html
The memo asks senators to oppose former Bush judicial nominee Miguel Estrada because "he has a minimal paper trail [meaning that nothing has been unearthed that can be used to question his character], he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment."
November 25, 2003 U.S. economic growth revised up GDP grew at a blistering 8.2 percent pace in the third quartrer, faster than originally thought. Source: CNN Money
December 5, 2003 THE GROWING IRAQI SUCCESS STORY by Rod D. Martin,
Vanguard of the Revolution http://www.theVanguard.org
One example from the story: "So, too with health care. The Coalition has delivered more than 22 million vaccination for Iraq's children, while pharmaceutical distribution has risen from 700 tons in May to 12,000 by
October. All of Iraq's 240 hospitals and more than 1200 clinics are open, and doctors' salaries are more than eight times higher than under Saddam's Ba'athist regime."
December 5, 2003 Bush Administration Pushes UN to Reconsider Human Cloning
Ban Delay
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/bio169.html
December 08, 2003 Bush Signs Sweeping Medicare Bill
WASHINGTON - Recognizing the efforts by seniors groups in helping him deliver a three-year-old campaign promise, President Bush signed a comprehensive bill Monday that marks the first major overhaul of the nearly
40-year-old federal Medicare program. "With the Medicare Act of 2003 (search), our government is finally bringing prescription drug coverage to the seniors of America," Bush said before signing the 10-year, $395 billion legislation. "With this law, we're giving older Americans better choices and more control over their health care so
they can receive the modern medical care they deserve."
December 20, 2003 Libya agrees to halt arms programs US, Britain secure pledge for inspections Libya agrees to halt arms programs Source: Boston Globe
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/digest/story/3258358p-2913271c.html
January 2, 2004 NGO Calls on Pro-abortion Europe to Counter "Christian"
White House Source: Friday Fax
January 7, 2004 Pro-Abortion Group Criticizes Bush's Pro-Life "Christian" Foreign Policy
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/intl41.html
January 9, 2004 President Unveils School Choice Incentive Fund At a meeting this afternoon with leaders of Catholic education, President Bush said he will call on Congress to establish a $50 million national choice incentive fund "to help more parents to send their children to the school that is best for them, no matter what kind of school it is."
The White House transcript of the president's remarks is available at Source: Council for American Private Education (CAPE) http://www.capenet.org
January 9, 2004 President Bush Celebrates Catholic Education Source: Martin Gillespie Director of Catholic Outreach Republican National Committee
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040109-10.html
January 13, 2004 Bush Plans $1.5 Billion Drive for Promotion of Marriage
Source: New York Times
January 16, 2004 President Bush Declares Sunday, January 18, 2004 Sanctity
of Human Life Day Source: New Jersey Right to Life
http://capwiz.com/njrtl/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=4749646
January 16, 2004 President Bush nominates [pro-life] Charles Pickering to
Federal Bench President Sidesteps Obstructionst U.S. Senators including N.J.
Senators Corzine and Lautenberg Source Associated Press:
Bush installs controversial judge on court (from New Jersey Right to Life
http://capwiz.com/njrtl/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=4752501 )
January 16, 2004 President Bush Uses Recess Appointment to Confirm
Pickering
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat282.html
See also: FRC [Family Research Council] Praises Recess Appointment of
Charles Pickering to Federal Bench http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR04A05
January 20, 2004 President Bush Supports the Federal Marriage Amendment in
his State of the Union address
Source: New Jersey Coalition to Defend Marriage
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040120-7.html
January 21, 2004 Housing Starts Increase Residential construction activity picked up in December, helping to make all of 2003 the best year for home builders in a quarter-century and underscoring the critical role
the sector played in the economy's resurgence.
The Commerce Department reported today that housing construction increased by 1.7 percent last month from November _ ending 2003 on a high note. For all of last year, the number of housing units that builders broke ground on totaled 1.85 million, up from 1.70 million in 2002.
The total for 2003 marked the strongest performance since 1978, when housing construction came to 2.02 million. Source: Associated Press
January 21, 2004 George Bush Stands Up for Marriage
Source: Alliance Defense Fund alansears@alliancedefensefund.org
January 21, 2004 President Bush Wants Abstinence Program Funding Tripled
by 2005 Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat291.html
January 22, 2004 President Bush Calls March for Life Participants "Above all, we must continue with civility and respect to remind our fellow citizens that all life is sacred and worthy of protection. I know as you return to your communities you will redouble your efforts to change hearts and minds, one person at a time. And this is the way we will build a lasting culture of life, a compassionate society in which every child is born into a loving family and protected by law." Source: White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040122-3.html
January 29, 2004 UNFPA Permanently Loses $59 Million ..... For the past two years, the Bush administration has, in fact, determined that UNFPA supports forced abortions in China, and is therefore ineligible for US funding. A high ranking congressional staff member told the Friday Fax that the current bill follows this same procedure, and "since Kemp-Kasten has not changed, and since UNFPA's actions in China have
not changed, we fully expect the administration to take the same action it has taken for the past two years regarding UNFPA." Source: Friday Fax
January 29, 2004 Pro-Life Groups Say President Bush's Record Strong, Deserves Re-Election
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat312.html
February 2, 2004 NRL PAC announces endorsement of President Bush Source: Press Release issued by the National Right to Life Political Action Committee For further information, call Laura Echevarria, 202-626-8825,
send e-mail to mediarelations@nrlc.org, or visit the NRLC website at www.nrlc.org.
February 3, 2004 Congress Reallocates UNFPA Money, Abortion Funding Battle Continues Citing the UN Population Fund's (UNFPA) failure to convincingly show that it is not participating or condoning coercive family planning and abortion programs in China, Congress has permanently reallocated the $56 million earmarked for the UNFPA over the past two years to other programs.
The money will now go to programs to improve maternal health and combat sex trafficking.
We commend the Bush Administration for its continued strong enforcement of the Kemp-Kasten Anti-Coercion law -- a law that was completely disregarded during the Clinton Administration, Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director for National Right to Life Committee, told LifeNews.com. Any agency that collaborates in China's brutal compulsory abortion program should not receive U.S. taxpayer funds.
Source: LifeNews.com: http://www.lifenews.com/nat323.html
February 4, 2004 Statement by President Bush Regarding the Deplorable Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ruling Today's ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is deeply troubling. Marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman. If activist judges insist on re-defining marriage by court order, the only
alternative will be the constitutional process. We must do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage. Source: White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040204-9.html
February 9, 2004 Abortion Advocates Ready to Defeat Bush, Support John Kerry
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat329.html
February 10, 2004 Bush's Pro-Life View on Abortion Gives 4% Advantage Over John Kerry
A new national poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that President Bush gains a four-point advantage over likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry because of his pro-life views on abortion.
Source: LifeNews.com: http://www.lifenews.com/nat331.html
February 10, 2004 NARAL Launches 25M Fundraising Campaign to Elect Abortion Advocates
The pro-abortion group NARAL has launched a campaign to raise $25 million to defeat pro-life
President George W. Bush and elect pro-abortion candidates to Congress.
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat333.html
February 11, 2004 President Bush Plans to Back Federal Marriage Amendment
Source: Washington
February 11, 2004 Bush Administration Seeks Partial-Birth Abortion Records to Defend Ban
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat335.html
February 12, 2004 UNESCO Pledges End to Support and Promotion of Abortion UNESCO's Director-General has just issued a memo directing all UNESCO offices in the world no longer to support or promote abortion in any way, insisting that abortion is outside the scope of UNESCO's mission.
This dramatic policy change started with a report in the Friday Fax last October 31. That report initiated an internal UNESCO investigation and the eventual admonishment from the Bush Administration.
Source: Friday Fax
February 13, 2004 Bush repeats support for school vouchers Source:
Associated Press
February 17, 2004 CONGRESS TO VOTE ON UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT
Source: National Right to Life
(FEDERAL FETAL HOMICIDE BILL) -- PRESIDENT BUSH SUPPORTS BILL -- SENATOR KERRY OPPOSES IT
February 20, 2004 President Bush Selects Another Pro-Life Judge [William Pryor] Through Recess Appointment Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat345.html
February 24, 2004 President Bush Backs Gay Marriage Ban Amendment Source:
Associated Press
President Bush will back a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in an attempt to halt same-sex unions like the thousands that have been allowed this month in San Francisco, his spokesman said Tuesday.
"He has always strongly believed that marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
February 27,2004 Bush administration criticizes China on religious rights record
Source: Catholic News Service
February 27, 2004 Bush Administration Subpoenas More Partial-Birth Abortion Records
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat355.html
February 2004 Encounter With President Bush at Church
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_bush_in_church.htm
March 1, 2004 Bush Appoints More Pro-Life Bioethics Council Members, Kerry
Criticizes
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/bio222.html
March 11, 2004 Bush Administration Considering Warning Labels On Condoms
Source: Associated Press
The Bush administration is considering requiring warning labels on condom packages noting that the contraceptive devices do not protect users from all sexually transmitted diseases.
March 8, 2004 President Bush's Encounter With Woman at Church
Source: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/stjohns.htm
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/stjohns.asp
March 11, 2004 Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, a devout Catholic, spoke via satellite to a crowd of over 500 people at the Franciscan University of Steubenville
http://www.gopteamleader.com/myissues/view_issue.asp?id=1651
March 13, 2004 Religious, Anti-Abortion Groups Among the Winners as
Abstinence-Only Funding Increases Source: Associated Press
March 19, 2004 Bush Administration Calls Strong Families Key for Development The Bush Administration continues to break new ground at the UN on defending life, faith, family and national sovereignty. They deserve our thanks, praise and support, even from those good European pro-lifers who do not support the American effort in Iraq.
We report today on the public face and voice of the Bush Administration on family issues at the UN, Ambassador Ellen Sauerbrey. She and her team, including Ann Corkery, are amazing. Source: Friday Fax
March 23, 2004 Women's Abortion Signs Get Better Reception at President Bush's Rally
Orlando, FL -- After campaign staffers for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry destroyed their signs saying their abortions hurt them, Rebecca Porter and her friend Cindy decided to try their luck with the signs
at a rally for President George W. Bush. The difference was amazing.
Source: LifeNews http://www.lifenews.com/nat395.html
March 26, 2004 Bush, the World Beater: The president's economy is the best
out there.
Source: National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/mitchell200403260821.asp
April 1, 2004 President Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violence Bill That
Kerry Opposed
Source: National Right to Life
April 2, 2004 What Has Gone Right in Iraq
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/jj20040402.shtml
April 2, 2004 Abortion Advocates Complain at UN that Universal Right to Abortion is Stalled
Abortion advocates met last week to complain that the global advance for abortion on demand has been stalled because of ongoing opposition from the Bush Administration and the Catholic Church.
Source: Friday Fax
April 2, 2004 President Bush's Bioethics Council Releases Assisted Fertility Report
A landmark report issued by the President's Bioethics Council has raised new questions about the regulation of potentially life-threatening reproductive technology.
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/bio258.html
April 5, 2004 President Bush Criticized for Abstinence Funding Commitment
Source: LifeNews.com http://www.lifenews.com/nat423.html
April 5, 2004 Unborn Victims Bill Only a Frist Step In Protecting All
Pregnant Women
http://www.lifenews.com/nat425.html Source: LifeNews.com
April 9, 2004 President's Easter Message Source: White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/print/20040409.html
April 23, 2004 (Pro-Abortion) Magazine Mocks President Bush as Pawn of
(Pro-Life) Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute
Source: FRIDAY FAX
April 21, 2004 Vice President Cheney Defends President's Strong Pro-Life at
National Right to Life Awards Dinner
Source: http://www.lifenews.com/nat458.html
April 26, 2004 Bush Administration Scraps Agency's Plans to Back
Pro-Abortion Conference
http://www.lifenews.com/nat477.html
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Just one day after a few hundred thousand abortion advocates gathered in the nation's capital, the Bush administration is pulling the plug on a federal agency's plan to support an international
conference that is backing abortion.
April 27, 2004 Karen Hughes(Bush's Adviser)Comments About Pro-Abortion
March:
"I think after September 11, the American people are valuing life more and I think those are the kind of policies the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy, and really, the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life."
Source: http://www.lifenews.com/nat484.html
April 29, 2004 Strong Economic Growth Continues in the First Quarter of 2004
March's increase in employment was the largest in almost four years. 308,000 new jobs were created in March - the largest monthly increase since April 2000 - and 759,000 jobs have been added over the last 7 months. Additionally, there was a cumulative upward revision of 87,000 jobs for the previous two months, showing that more jobs were created in January and February than initially thought.
The household survey puts the increase in employment even higher at 978,000 over the last 7 months. The national unemployment rate was 5.7% in March - far below its peak of 6.3% in June 2003, and below the average of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Over the past year, the unemployment rate has fallen in 44 of the 50 states. Initial unemployment claims have remained at levels consistent with strong job growth.
Source: http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4147
May 3, 2004 Photograph shows President Bush jogging with a serviceman who lost a leg in Afghanistan.
See photograph at: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/jogging.asp
May 6, 2004 Concerned Women For America Praises FDA for Rejecting Morning-After Pill Bid
Source: http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=5625&department=MEDIA&categoryid=life
May 17, 2004 NIH Letter Affirms Bush Position Against Funding Destructive
Research
Source: http://www.lifenews.com/bio303.html
May 17, 2004 Bush renews call for same-sex marriage ban
Source:CNN http://us.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/17/bush.gay/
May 17, 2004 President Bush Hits Pro-Life Themes in Commencement Address
http://www.lifenews.com/nat512.html
May 18, 2004 Nerve gas sarin is found in Iraq bomb
Source: Washington Post
http://www.detnews.com/2004/nation/0405/19/a04-156174.htm
(Bush was right about weapons of mass destruction)
I will continue to update this list.
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list longer than expected
I am not familiar with Fr Peter West. do you know what state he is in, and is he a member of 'priests for life'?
Amazing list.
Bump To The Top!
Any conservative wanting to with hold their vote from Bush should read this list.
and is he a member of 'priests for life'? >>>
Yes, click on where it says "private e-mail..." on top of the post, there is a link. Fr. Peter grew up in NJ where he is registered to vote and is a priest from the archdiocese of Newark, NJ "on loan" to PFL until his Bishop calles him back.
FYI and bookmarking if you feel it's worthwhile
BTTT
BUMP
WOW!! .. now there is a nice list
Thanks for the ping
Thanks, deport! I am also pinging ohioWfan and Southack, because I think they will be interested.
Teresa on the Stump, Teresa Heinz Kerry, from Mozambique, PRO-ABORTION Catholic, UN Employee, etc.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, Drummond Pike and the Communist TIDES FOUNDATIONSin to vote for pro-abortion politicians?
By Father Matthew Habiger, OSB
Kerry Will Hold Pro-Abortion Rally Prior to Sunday's Abortion March
Separation of church and state becomes political issue in N.J.
NJ politicians: Catholic Church is seeking too big a role, Senate leader leaves Church
NJN Video: State Senator Bernard Kenny Leaves the Catholic Church
Church, State and Dinner (Barf!)McGreevey: Church wrong to dictate to Catholic politicians
Kerry, Candidate and Catholic, Creates Uneasiness for Church
A Primer on Canon 915 Can. 915 Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
DOCTRINAL NOTE
on some questions regarding
The Participation of Catholics in Political Life
Living the Gospel of Life:
A Challenge to American Catholics
A Statement by the Catholic Bishops of the United States
Faithful Citizenship:
Civic Responsibility for a New Millennium
Canon Law and Abortion
Sign Petition: To Excommunicate Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians
The Gospel of Life--Evangelium Vitae
Herod's Heroes, Sign Petition
The Bible and homosexuality [Kerry thinks the bible is for homosexuality]
Kerry’s Dirty Deeds (How, pray tell, do they comport with religious belief
Kerry and Kenned, etc., Catholic Pro-Abortion, Pro-Homosexual
Catholic and 100% Pro Abortion
KERRY TAKES COMMUNION AMID CONTROVERSY
Kerry Ignores Reproaches of Some Bishops
Pro-Life Group Protests Pro-Abortion Kerry's Speech at Georgetown
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Court Transcripts (Please read & Forward to EVERYONE) Kerry and many Catholic Politicians support this!!
Some are never satisfied... but that's reality
I am also pinging ohioWfan and Southack, because I think they will be interested.
Politics trumped Life. >>
It seemed that Santorum was looking out more for HIS political career than anything else, I think he's going to be #3 in terms of power in the Senate?
President Bush also appointed 6 Pro-abortion Judges to the 3rd circuit, federal bench, in NJ. The reasons listed above in the post should sway most to vote for Bush because of his pro-life record, I would hate to see Kerry in as president, many more lives would be lost as a result of abortion. And forget about any pro-life SC Justices being appointed.
You are quite right. I see that the people who usually tell us he is not pro-life are noticeably absent from this thread. I will ping a few more people...and I have bookmarked this for future use as well.
A list of accomplishments in defending the unborn would indeed be helpful. This is a list of mostly pronouncements, which, helpful as they are, do not translate into a lasting pro-life legacy.
Why the author needed to inflate his list with the Iraq policy stuff is a complete mystery.
There is no question that the President is personally pro-life and it shows in his speeches. There is no question that Kerry would be far worse. No list is required to convince us of that.
Like most snooks and frequent losers you want to win the battle that will cost the war. Bush has managed to get the Republican Supreme Court Justices to not retire until the next term. Had Rhenquist or some of the others retired there is no way Bush could have prevented a liberal from being put on the court.... so they are holding off.
To keep abortion from being approved by the supreme court for at least the next 30 years, Bush must have 55 Republican seats in the senate.
Even some one with a snooks understanding should be able to figure out that in state with many more Democrats than Republicans a conservative nominee for the senate can not win in a high turn out Presidential year. There is a chance in a non presidential low turn out year. But that is not this year.
Bush knew it, Santorum knew it.. everyone with a political brain knew it. Everyone knew it except someone as dumb as Toomey. He certainly did not know it. Toomey is so stupid that he thinks 35 percent of the voters can cast 51 percent of the votes. Toomey could not even get half the Republican votes against the RINOs, RINO. That is loserville with a capital L.
Yes Snookie baby... in a presidential year for a Republican to win in P.A. the candidate has to get a hunk of Democrat Votes. Does any one really think that a conservative who can't even get half the Republican primary votes, could get centrist and Democrat votes?
How ignorant of politics does one have to be to not know that there are at least 15 battleground states where neither Conservatives nor Liberals can win. If the Republicans were to only run Conservatives they would have about 35 Senate Seats and the Deomcrats and DINOs would have 65.
There is never a time that there are not 30 DINOs and RINOs in the Senate. If the Liberals have 25 or so DINO's in the Senate they can rule this nation. Yes a few of them like Zell Miller often go off the reservation. But there are always a RINO or two to make up for that.
That is why the LEFT NEVER TRASHES DINOs. Liberals are smart enough to know it takes DINOs to rule. They did it for most of the last century.
Both parties extremes always think their problem is the message is not getting out. The left is in that mode right now. If Kerry just can get his message out.. he will do fine. But the public does not like him and he will not win. It is not ignorance of the message, it is only a minority of voters buy the message.
People like you think that if the people just heard the conservative messsage they would vote for conservatives. The people have heard the conservative message. The problem in P.A., is they don't buy it. That leaves only one path to victory of the consrvative cause. It is a path that works. It is the path that requires the nomination and active support of RINOs in battleground states.
Conservatives just never figure it out. The world is not the way they want it. Nearly 65 percent of the voters do not agree with them. They may not like it... but that is the situation. The only way to get abortion ended forever is to nominate and support as many RINOs in the battle ground states as possible.
The best way to keep abortion forever legal is for Republicans to nominate as many conservatives in the battle ground states as possible.
Every candidate knows he can't do anything unless he wins. To win takes a majority of the votes. Candidates know that if they move far enough right in order to win the snookums votes, they lose all the center. The solution is simple. Move more to the left. Move farther to the left than you would if you had the snookems support.
Sookems need to understant that in politics as in baseball there are fans (voters) and Players(candidates). That is the real world. Here is a clue. Players(Candidates) want to play. Fans are team fans. Yankee fans don't root for the Indians. But an Indian player that gets traded to the Yankees well play his heart out for the Yankees.
Candidates are players. That is the real world. Get used to it. They are never just fans.
I don't know if it was the design, but it is certainly true. Failure to support the party nearest to a voters positions results in a voters worst nightmare. Teaching Geo Bush Sr. a lesson about raising taxes by suporting a Ross Perot, only got the nation Bill Clinton.
Your attempts to teach Dubya a lesson about Toomey would have only gotten you John Kerry and a DINO senator from PA. Toomey surely must have known that even in a very low turnout primary where only the true believers vote, that he could only cause problems and not win. But Perhaps Toomey is just stupid. Could be.
Toomey like many ambitious men, took his shot and destroyed his own career. That is also true in both sports and politics. Players that put their own ambitions ahead of the teams get sent to the minors.
BTW in Pennsylvania, once fully pro-life Santorum got elected because he was able to pull votes with pro-life Democrats [Gov Casey types]. As a Pennsylvania voter if you think Specter will help Bush more than Toomey would, you are mistaken. Specter won't be able to help himself.
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