I apologize if the Rudolph thing annoyed you, but I'm at a loss to know what else you would have had President Bush do, and why what's he's done is from "mild convictions."
Yeah, abortion isn't his number 1 stump issue. There's some crap going on in the Middle East that he's primarily focused on at the moment.
I do see your point, and Bush has done decent job on the judges, Harriet Meirs aside. But Bush's pro life reputation rests pretty much on two things: stem cell research and the passage of a ban on PBA.
I saw his administration somewhat closely in Texas, and Bush pursued no pro-life initiative at all until he absolutely had to for his presidential run. I would argue that he followed a similar strategy as president. A ban on PBA and a ban on federal funding of stem cell research was, at the time, the minimum expected of him as a Republican. As it happens the Republican party has since lurched to the left on stem cell research and cloning, as has the general population, making Bush more conservative by comparison.
Bush has cut loose a few good court nominees that he should have kept. He has not pursued any cuts in federal funding to abortion providers. He has not pursued parental consent laws on a national scale. So that why I say he has a moderate commitment. Probably a moderate committment is more than most Republicans these days, but it simply means that he has a general bent that direction, but would risk little or no political capital to see policy enacted.