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.
Well, the citizens elect their congressmen.
Almost all the democrats are pro abortion.
Get a realistic grip on things.
President Bush has already had Barbara Walters and every newspaper in the country on his back over the SC Justice picks. I think the people are to blame.
Apparently, the majority are pro choice.
That's my point.
Unless the citizenry holds DC accountable, nothing is going to change. I don't care how many marches they have, how many letters they write, or how many speeches are given from the pulpit.
Unless we demand it, Washington will NEVER act.
I'd have a lot more respect for pro-lifers if you demonstrated that you cared about babies after they're born.
"Yawn..."
Yeah, your response is pretty boring too. Maybe an aborted baby will perk you up?
The L/MSM is controlled by idiots [in my opinion] -- who have a left wing agenda.
It is also who: Jennifer O'Neill will be at the Convention signing her book. There is the Silent No More gathering at the Supreme Court.
But in Georgia, there is a major change in the works -- the Democrats have lost the House & Senate -- mirroring the US Congress. The wheels are greased in Georgia for some new laws to be passed and be signed by a Republican Governor.
I think Georgia will have 20,000 folks on Friday. Then some of them may travel to DC over the weekend -- since DC has the march on Monday.
Oh, and before I get flamed to death, yes, I'm pro-choice, no, I don't think that abortion is a good thing or should be encouraged.
Whats that suppose to mean?
You must be advocating social welfare right?
After all it is the governments resposibility to provide us with everything right?
Sorry but before government welfare people had kids and took care of them and we dont need a nanny state, but we do need a state that protects innocent life.
I think the guy posted the same stuff a month ago, and that opened the cage doors to the zoo then, and it probably will now. The guy wants Bush to try stuff that would cause me to favor his removal from office, eo instante.
Wake up and smell the coffee. This issue is going to bury the GOP.
And here I thought it was illegal immigration. So many issues fatal to the GOP - it is a veritable death watch.
In your dreams.
In World War II, the people of Germany turned up the organs in the Churches so as to not hear the screaming Jewish people on trains -- on their way to death camps.
My challenge is simple -- see what Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of NARAL, and former abortionist who performed 70,000 abortions. Just view Silent Scream once.
Besides the dead babies, there alot of women hurting out there -- from the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr to Jennifer O'Neill. Many woman regret their abortions. Many abortions are sterile because of their abortions.
Anyone who is an advocate of Women's Rights knows that it is in the best interest of MEN, not WOMEN, for abortion to continue to be legal.
Just look at the recent Baseball Bat abortions.
I'm a registered Democrat, I've voted Democrat in every election since I was old enough to vote
"You target his natural constituencies, for example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion." - Moby
I'm not going to rehash the eternal abortion debate here.
What I'm saying is that if you claim to love babies so much and feel that every fetus should be brought to term regardless of whether or not their parents want them or can afford to care for them, then you'd better have a plan in place for taking care of those babies if and when their parents either neglect to do so or are unable to do so.
And yes, that plan is inevitably going to involve gobs of money being sucked up by a social welfare system.
That doesn't sound appealing? Then stop trying to force a bunch of women who are unwilling or unable to care for their children to have them.
It's common sense. Somebody is going to end up having to take care of these kids, and that somebody is going to be you and me, in the form of our tax dollars.
It's perfectly true that the president doesn't have to do anything he thinks is unconstitutional. Abraham Lincoln took that position, and succeeded. But Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to do it at the height of his power and failed.
Politics is the art of the possible. It can't be said to often. If Bush had simply refused to follow the direction of SCOTUS, he would have been vilified, he would have lost the support of the cowards in his own party, and he would now be on the beach looking for employment. Meantime nothing would have been done toward ending the abortion holocaust.
Bush has taken more positive measures in a pro-life direction than any other president, including Ronald Reagan. Give him some credit. Now I think he has positioned himself to do more, in the way of judicial appointments. God willing, he will start cleansing our judiciary of death-dealing activists and start us on the road to ending court-mandated abortions.
He has also accomplished something else that may be more important than such actions as restoring Reagan's Mexico City policy. He has shown the politicians and the media spinners that abortion may be a losing game. Psychologically, that's a huge step forward toward turning the momentum around.
It's the perfectionists and the all-or-nothing people who have caused much of the trouble we are in now.
Re: "...read it all, get so tired and have to post a yawn. Way to add to the discussion of the slaughter of millions of babies."
What do you expect? Perhaps some people have the moral awareness of a junk yard dog, or a crack addict. I'm not naming names mind you but maybe if you included some porn some people might stay awake. Let just face it 50 million dead babies just doesn't do it for some folks.
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