Then don't say it! Why on earth would his wife's thoughts on the issue make you question the sincerity of the most pro-life President we have ever had. Nonsense!
2 words: Harriet Miers.
All the legislation in the world is a teaspoon in the ocean compared to a Supreme Court nomination. And left to his own devices, Bush picked Harriet Miers.
How many couples do you know where they both are practicing Christians, and the husband is pro-life, but the wife is pro-abortion? How in the world did we get four straight presidential candidates in the Republican party who were not only abject failures and complete squishes in terms of domestic policy, but who couldn’t even rally their wives let alone the nation to the prolife cause?
This isn’t like a disagreement over unemployment insurance. This is a disagreement over a profoundly moral issue... and whether the wife feels she has a right to kill their baby!
I think what dangus meant is that GWB was just a “grim and bear it” conservative on issues such as life but really was untrue to his own liberal beliefs. Notice how he shunned the Jerry Falwell funeral, as GHWB shunned the death of Lee Atwater in 1991.