Posted on 08/19/2004 1:48:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- First Lady Laura Bush has possibly changed her position on abortion. When her husband George W. Bush was running for president in 2000, Laura Bush indicated she was pro-choice on the issue of abortion and did not favor overturning Roe v. Wade.
Last week, the First Lady came to the defense of her husband's policy on embryonic stem cell research.
In August 2001, President Bush put forward an executive order preventing taxpayer funding of any new embryonic stem cell research.
In response to critics who contend the decision stalls important scientific research, Laura Bush promoted the use of adult stem cells and sided with numerous doctors who say such cures, if they happen, are likely many years away.
Her actions prompted a Washington Times reporter to ask Laura Bush whether she has changed her mind on the issue of abortion.
Asked on Thursday whether she is now pro-life, the First Lady responded, "Yes, I think abortion should be rare."
Laura Bush also told Times reporter Bill Sammon that she agreed with President Bush that human life begins at conception.
No one was available in Laura Bush's press office to provide further details on the quote.
Elizabeth Graham, associate director of Texas Right to Life, told LifeNews.com she wasn't sure if the brief comment indicates Laura Bush has changed her mind on abortion and overturning Roe v. Wade.
"Hopefully [she] is realizing that abortion harms and exploits women, which may be motivating her to speak out a little more forcefully than usual on a controversial issue," Graham said.
Previously, the Fist Lady has said that she didn't think the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion should be reversed.
"No, I don't think it should be overturned," Mrs. Bush told NBC's "Today Show" in January 2001.
In a followup interview, she told CNN that she believes more could be done to reduce the number of abortions, but that Roe should not be overturned.
She did not respond to a question in that interview about whether women have a "right" to an abortion, but said, "[we should do] what we can to limit the number of abortions, to try to reduce the number of abortions in a lot of ways, and that is, by talking about responsibility with girls and boys, by teaching abstinence, having abstinence classes everywhere in schools and in churches and in Sunday school."
"I agree with my husband that we should try to reduce the number of abortions in our country by doing all those things," Bush said.
In July, 2001 Laura Bush told CNN's Judy Woodruff in an interview that, though she disagreed with her husband on overturning Roe v. Wade, they agreed on issues such as promoting adoption and abstinence.
That does not sound right at all.
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Too cute by half. Depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Laura Bush also told Times reporter Bill Sammon that she agreed with President Bush that human life begins at conception.
So does John Kerry.
I saw the interview in which she said she supported Roe vs. Wade on TV. I was shocked.
It is a tenable position to hold that government restriction of abortion is an unacceptable invasion of privacy without accepting utilitarian arguments in favor of abortion.
Roe vs. Wade is primarily a privacy argument.
Support for embryonic stem cell research requires a utilitarian conclusion that the value of the research outweighs the value of the life sacrificed.
Support for Roe vs. Wade is a "Pro-Choice" position. Support for embryonic stem cell research is a "Pro-Abortion" position. There is a difference.
This is why I VOTE REPUBLICAN!
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Aborted baby's head left inside woman
Couple horrified to find face of child after returning home
The position that "abortion" should be rare is a centrist pro-life stance. Essentially, it avoids the pro-abortionist stance, and favors preventive social measures to reduce the number of women who request abortions.
The primary measures for this is education, parental involvement, and community discussions with the youth about responsible sexual behavior.
If you can't stop children from having sex, you engage them in the discussion about responsibility sex engenders. Centrists want the families with children, with the support of community programs, to begin these discussions. Strangers from Planned Parenthood have no place in such a discussion, except in the extreme where there are no reliable or trust worthy adults.
I think kids are growing up to fast these days. I may only be 25, but when I was between 13-18, only the bad kids engaged in sexual type behavior and they were maybe one in twenty. Today, the same age group seems to have a ratio of 1 out of 2, or 50%, and possibly higher.
The increase in the ratio seems to be directly related to the parental involvement and community involvement... that is, the less involved the community and the parents, the more sexually active the students become after the age of 13.
===== In August 2001, President Bush put forward an executive order **preventing taxpayer funding of any new embryonic stem cell research.**
(**read**: granting his own a monopoly on the NIH budget he'd doubled while rendering moot any use of "human research" given the brand-new definition of non-person predicated by his ESCR decision)
==== Last week, the First Lady came to the defense of her husband's policy on embryonic stem cell research.
==== Laura Bush also told Times reporter Bill Sammon that she agreed with President Bush that human life begins at conception.
Brrroooiiinnngggg ....
This makes perfect sense, no? THANK GOODNESS the liberal media -- once again -- is helping to give the impression our leadership is "pro-life" and their initiatives somehow respect the right to life from the moment of conception to natural death.
In response to critics who contend the decision stalls important scientific research, Laura Bush promoted the use of adult stem cells and sided with numerous doctors who say such cures, if they happen, are likely many years away.
Her actions prompted a Washington Times reporter to ask Laura Bush whether she has changed her mind on the issue of abortion.
Asked on Thursday whether she is now pro-life, the First Lady responded, "Yes, I think abortion should be rare."
I don't know why she is upset. She had it mutilated. So she had to look in her dead child's face...good.
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This LifeNews site is a joke. They twist facts worse than the National Enquirer.
In that woman's case I support her decision to have an abortion.
And now she's seeking "legal help" because she's so distraught.
No wonder.
When forced to confront ones own eveil, selfish choices, it often results in confusion, depression, and a loss of mental facilities.
The translation ought to be, "I screwed up, yet I was forced to own up to my 'choice'...and it freaked me out! Someone pay me!"
That's pretty much what I've been saying for the past few years. The prohibition on the use of embryonic stem cells does not kill the research; it simply assures that all whose stems cells are used are voluntary test subjects.
The civilized world made it clear following the destruction of Nazi Germany that any medical research using involuntary subjects should never be legitimized. That's why we can never legitimize embryonic stem cell research. Period.
Huh...and the Leftists dare to refer to Bush as Hitler. If anything, they're worse than Hitler with their abominable genocide of the unborn.
God's judgment on her.
Perhaps the way to reduce abortions before the elimination of Roe VS Wade, is to have every abortion preceded by an imaging of the child. The mother would then have to review the image and sign off on the procedure as a function of "informed consent." Most women having an abortion have an internal image of the "fetus" being akin to a lump of jello.
That is what happened to her Father in Law.
What a horrifying situation! She will have to live with the atrocity she committed for the rest of her life; I pray our Lord grants her repentance.
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