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.
Headscarf and other headdress ban in all government schools and offices and drivers license photos would make a lot of sense and go a long way towards liberating the iron fisted control that the crazed mullahs have over muslim women. This is not a minor issue IMO.
Well stated and agreed.
This argument was used ad nauseum even when I was in college in the late 70's early 80's. Our college group, and as well the local community pro-life organization at the time, did all we could to dispel that lie.
Your list is excellent. Please add me to your ping list.
You idea of liberation is Orwellian.
Many women and MEN want to wear their religion headdress and you are acting like a true Communist by wanting to ban it. I am no fan of the Islamic religion but people have the right to choose to express their religion. I can redirect you to Michael Newdow and his religion hating friend if you like?
You=Your
I know countless very religious people including ministers, and NONE of them wear head wrappings. These head getups are not religous, they are political symbols of power and control. I am sure the Almighty could care less about such nonsense.
Ever saw the Pope? Ever met an Orthodox Jew?
ARe they religious nuts and oppressing women?
Both Bush's wife and mother are pro choice, they probably realize that criminalizing the whole thing would never work.
Interesting. Seems the President has not been too successful in 'changing hearts and minds'. However, he has been quite successful to persuade whenever he really wants something. Have pro-lifers been bamboozled, stay tuned.
There's nothing wrong with the above, cp. The title of this article, however, takes it too far, and I do think mischaracterizes the Presidents position.
***Yeah I saw that post. I printed to look over it in more depth. It looks impressive until one begins to get a felling of deja vu all over again. ***
***There are a few good things but it reads like a scare tactic by Planned Parenthood designed to drum up donations.***
Hmmmm...my point was not the number of items, but the content. A few good things? Huh?
A pro-lifer in charge of the nation's health.
No US tax dollars for foreign abortions, or the promotion of abortion.
None of your tax dollars pay for federal employees' birth control.
A promoter of abstinence becomes the chief advisor on AIDS.
Taking a teen to get an out of state abortion is now a federal crime.
Thompson fights the condom approach to AIDS prevention.
Partial Birth Abortion Ban.
Pro-lifer at refugee post.
UNFPA gets no US money for three years.
Embryo adoption promoted.
CEDAW is rejected.
Another pro-life/pro-abstinence AIDS advisor.
Hospitals will not be forced to give abortions.
WHO pro-abortion program gets no US tax dollars.
Pro-condom myths and pro-abortion breast cancer lies go off
the HHS website.
Embryo is considered a human by US government scientitsts.
Title X overseen by abstinence-promoter.
US ditches support for pro-abortion treaty.
Multiple pro-lifers (and specifically, anti-RU486) appointed to FDA.
No more abortions at our military facilities.
Cairo pro-abortion language is not endorsed by US.
And that's just in the Family Planning section.
Certainly, only a pro-abort would allow such things on his watch, right? Get a grip.
Prayer *is* "works".
Bush Signs Title X Funding Increase for 2005
Planned Parenthood's Abortion Funding Increased
President George W. Bush and the Republican-majority Congress Title X is one of two major federal government funding sources for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation's largest chain of abortion centers (murdering over 244,000 unborn human beings per year by surgical abortion alone).
Increased Title X to record $288.3 million in FY 2005 on 12/8/04
Title X appropriation for FY 2005 (Oct. 2004 to Sept. 2005) was signed into law as part of H.R. 4818 (see bill at http://thomas.loc.gov), the mammoth appropriations bill which contained the huge outlays for the (unconstitutional) Department of Health and Human Services.
Republican-majority U.S. House approved H.R. 4818 by a vote of 344 to 51, on November 20, 2004 (Roll Call Number: 542). [Republicans 183 Yea, 27 Nay; Democrats 160 Yea, 24 Nay; 1 Independent Yea]
Republican-majority U.S. Senate approved H.R. 4818 by a vote of 65 to 30, on November 20, 2004 (Record Vote Number: 215) [Republicans 42 Yea, 6 Nay; Democrats 23 Yea, 23 Nay; 1 Independent Nay]
Republican President signed H.R. 4818 into law, authorizing the highest ever spending level for Title X in the history of the program, on December 8, 2004. It became Public Law No. 108-447.
This FY 2005 Bush administration Title X funding level of $288 million (an estimated $50-$60 million of which will be paid to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, for population control), exceeds by over $30 million, the highest Title X level during the Clinton administration, in FY 2001, of $254 million!
______________________________________________ Note:
The Title X program includes funding for contraceptive birth control; birth control that causes chemical abortions; and birth control for unmarried adolescents, even if their parents object to the federal government giving their children hormonal drugs and devices with which to fornicate.
Information on Title X: http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp.html
The Title X program is also one of the principal federal government funding mechanisms for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (founded by Margaret Sanger), the nation's largest chain of child-murder-by-abortion centers.
Title X funding history since inception in 1971:
From the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs website: http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp-funding-history.html
______________________________________________ Pertinent text below, documenting appropriation of $288,283,000 for Title X is shown below, from:
H.R.4818 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate) - Federal HHS Appropriations Bill (FY 2005)
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H.R.4818
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)
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TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES
For carrying out titles II, III, IV, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, and XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and sections 1128E, 711, and 1820 of the Social Security Act, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, as amended, the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2000, section 712 of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, and the Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness Act, as amended, $6,856,624,000, of which $484,629,000 shall be available for construction and renovation (including equipment) of health care and other facilities and other health-related activities as specified in the statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying this Act, and of which $39,499,000 from general revenues, notwithstanding section 1820(j) of the Social Security Act, shall be available for carrying out the Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants program under section 1820 of such Act: Provided, That of the funds made available under this heading, $249,000 shall be available until expended for facilities renovations at the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center: Provided further, That in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b) of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be collected for the full disclosure of information under the Act sufficient to recover the full costs of operating the National Practitioner Data Bank, and shall remain available until expended to carry out that Act: Provided further, That fees collected for the full disclosure of information under the `Health Care Fraud and Abuse Data Collection Program', authorized by section 1128E(d)(2) of the Social Security Act, shall be sufficient to recover the full costs of operating the program, and shall remain available until expended to carry out that Act: Provided further, That $31,000,000 of the funding provided for community health centers shall be used for base grant adjustments for existing centers: Provided further, That no more than $100,000 is available until expended for carrying out the provisions of 42 U.S.C. 233(o) including associated administrative expenses: Provided further, That no more than $45,000,000 is available until expended for carrying out the provisions of Public Law 104-73: Provided further, That $9,941,000 is available until expended for the National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program as described in House Report 108-401: Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, $288,283,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects: Provided further, That amounts provided to said projects under such title shall not be expended for abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, and that such amounts shall not be expended for any activity (including the publication or distribution of literature) that in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal or candidate for public office: Provided further, That $793,872,000 shall be for State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs authorized by section 2616 of the Public Health Service Act: Provided further, That in addition to amounts provided herein, $25,000,000 shall be available from amounts available under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act to carry out Parts A, B, C, and D of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act to fund section 2691 Special Projects of National Significance: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 502(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to exceed $119,158,000 is available for carrying out special projects of regional and national significance pursuant to section 501(a)(2) of such Act: Provided further, That of the funds provided, $40,000,000 shall be provided to the Denali Commission as a direct lump payment pursuant to Public Law 106-113, of which $10,000,000 shall be for a psychiatric treatment facility in Bethel, Alaska, $10,000,000 shall be for residential and supportive housing for elders, $2,500,000 shall be for medical and dental equipment for rural clinics, and $5,000,000 shall be for upgrade and construction of shelters for victims of domestic violence and child abuse.
______________________________________________ Instructions to locate this text yourself on-line: Go to: http://thomas.loc.gov
Click on: "Search Bills and Resolutions"
Select: 108th Congress (2003-2004)
Enter Search: H.R.4818
Click on: "Search"
Click on: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)[H.R.4818.ENR]
H.R.4818 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate) - Federal HHS Appropriations Bill (FY 2005)
[ To see roll call votes in US House and US Senate, click on:
Link to the "Bill Summary & Status" file. ]
Scroll about 40% of the way down the page:
DIVISION F--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES
Continue scrolling, click on:
TITLE II--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Under:
Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Resources and Services
"Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, $288,283,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects:..."
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Heavenly Father - Help us to trust in Thee. Help Thou mine unbelief.
Do you seriously believe there are 34 pro-life Senators who would vote "nay" on Articles of Impeachment?
I don't think there are 15.
Their loyalty to process liberalism overlying moral relativism may well be stronger.
OK We'll never know. He should do it because it's the right thing to do.
More to the point, What say you about:
President George W. Bush and the Republican-majority Congress Increased Title X to record $288.3 million in FY 2005 on 12/8/04 at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1322034/posts?page=214#214
I say that the Culture of Death still repels most Americans, but that the assumptions which give rise to the Culture of Death are overwhelmingly popular.
What's a poor politician to do?
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