THE PING!God Bless Laura Bush
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.
Many are afraid to "Live" the Gospel of Life. If you saw CDC the stats from the tiny tim thread, less than 400 women die from pregnancy per year. And that # doesn't indicate whether or not an abortion would have allowed her to live. R v Wade can be overturned with no problem.
And I bet she's in favor of IVF, a procedure which enables many abortions.
She put on even footing with her illness the fact that she already had three children and didn't want another as well as that she was depressed.
Two thirds of her decision was purely based on selfishness.
Yes. But is what they say true?
Ask an abortionist and she'll say "yes I'm pro-life; pro-women's lives."
Yes, he may say that. But he also chops babies into little pieces. As a murderer he can be properly described as "pro-death."
The phrase means next to nothing.
It refers to people who universally oppose murder.
Make that a "freedom-to-murder-based argument."
Go ahead and say it. Women have a constitutional right to murder their unborn children.
THE PING!She supports the republican platform. Not your litmus test of an ineffective and merely symbolic overturn of the supreme court in a stare decisis "coupe detat".
overturning roe vs. wade is NOT a republican policy or intention...
read the platform.
Bingo.
And there's nothing in this article that indicates a change in her position.
How about virtually non-existent?
While I agree this is positive news regarding the first lady, my answer to the reporter's question would have been as alluded to above. Unless Mrs. Bush means Roe should be reversed, which would eventually create a situation in which "abortion was rare." That such is the case is doubtful. Could her comments have anything to do with the upcoming election of her husband? Nawwwwwww.
We shall see.
Seems to me that Laura Bush is saying that abortion should be legal and rare. Those two are not exclusive. When I read the article about the media types trying to categorize her comments now, it sounds like the MSM types reading the Supreme Court decision in 2000 about the Florida recount. Then they were convinced that Gore had won, until somebody explained it to them.
Before Roe, everyone already had the legal means to have their babies. Roe gave them the legal means to destroy their babies. Therefore, the Roe decision is a pro-abortion decision.
I'm not going to stay on this thread and argue with people who seem to want trouble where there is none.
You are calling Laura Bush a liar. And you and your cohorts here have nothing to back it up except the conclusions you have drawn based on the flimsiest of 'evidence.'
You don't have to march in pro-life parades to be pro-life. You may, and I may, but to say that someone who doesn't make ending abortion their highest priority are not pro-life is just wrong.
You have no right to condemn Laura Bush because you haven't got a CLUE as to what she really believes, or has done about ending abortion.
I, for one, choose to believe this very honorable, Christian woman when she says she is pro-life, because I have no reason to believe she would lie about such an important thing.
And if YOU do, then it is YOU who have to support your accusations, and you cannot possibly do so unless you have proof that she has confided in YOU.
Laura has given me plenty of evidence that she is honorable. Her husband has given me plenty of evidence that he is honorable and would not allow his wife to lie on his behalf.
And on the other hand, I see very little honor in anything you've revealed about yourself.....
Only if you believe that they are both bald faced liars.
Such a FINE group of upstanding Christians on this thread.....
Right. She was pro-life before, and she's pro-life now. Just like her husband.
They think they KNOW that Laura Bush is pro-abortion with NO evidence, and in spite of her words to the contrary.
And I'll bet that not a ONE of them has spoken with the First Lady, or her husband on the subject.......ya think??..... yet here they are, calling her (and HIM) a pro-abort liar.
Sad. Just sad.
What does she need to seek legal advice for? Sounds to me like she's lookin' for some bucks. I don't believe she is really distraught.
Could it be that some are confusing the pro-abortion position of Mrs. Barbara Bush with that of her daughter-in-law?
Good news!
"It is not a matter of faith or belief damn it, it's a basic scientific fact".
Precisely and worth repeating.
So you are saying that laura bush is a pro abortion supporter, right?
How dare you?
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