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.
For a barf read his "about" page.
Bears repeating. Also, a thought occurs: Did Oscar Schindler do as much to end the Holocaust as he could have? After all, to paraphrase cpforlife, "A person is anti-Holocaust only to the degree to which they are willing to actually 'do something about it.'" Maybe Schindler could have done more. Maybe the couple who sheltered Anne Frank's family could have, too.