Posted on 11/08/2010 12:59:18 PM PST by RobinMasters
Over the last week, excerpts of George W. Bush’s Monday-night interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer have shown a candid former president. But if a new excerpt obtained by the New York Post is any indication, the George W. Bush we may see tonight isn’t going to hold much back, and it could get graphic.
According to the Post, Bush will recall a detailed story about what set him down the path to becoming pro-life. That story includes his mother, Barbara, preserving and showing a young George one of her miscarried fetuses. From the Post:
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
‘..She put it in a jar to bring it to the hospital...’
yes, this is what W said in his interview with Matt Lauer. His Mom put the miscarried fetus in a jar and asked W to drive her to the hospital.
Thank you. THAT is what is disturbing to me.
Quite honestly, I think its that generation. They'rethe realist generation to me (as evident by my own family experience) and didn't gloss over anything. While I understand that, what Bar did is something I could/would never do.
I remember him telling that story, about Robin. I cried.
Great - I see where you are coming from. The emotionally distraught mother who just lost her child through miscarriage should be forced to hold the fetus on the way to the hospital for personal care and autopsy services. Moreover, in an time where driving age boys were considered more “men” than today’s emasculated, metrosexual video gaming skater boyz, we wouldn’t expect George to man-up and assume the horrible burden for his mother.
Gotcha. Check.
Yes, we are the “realistic” generation.
When my two older sisters miscarried, one at 4 months and one at 4 1/2 months, they were instructed to wrap the baby in a clean towel and proceed to the emergency room.
Of course, being excellent Catholics, they baptized their tiny babies first.
They told their sad experience to all of us, youngsters included. We knew then and there that babies are living human beings from the very start, with immortal souls.
Too bad Supreme Court Justices never learned this lesson.
Thank you for the Ping, Starwise. God Bless!
You can’t put yourself in that situation of pain,
upset, maybe crying, calling the doctor, fumbling
to find a big enough receptacle with a cover and
then having to retrieve all the remains per the
doctor’s instructions, cleaning up yourself, emotions
still jangled and getting all together, probably bleeding,
to gingerly walk out to the car, with the receptacle
to have the only one home who could do it, your oldest
son, quickly drive you to the small town hospital in the
early 60’s?
I can totally imagine this whole sad and stressful
scenario, as a mother. It’s just what would naturally
occur, not as if the revelation was some statement or
overt lesson thing.
He’s was right there, probably assisted her out, and
then he was right there in the car with her, and likely
would’ve walked into the hospital with her, with what
would’ve been his sister or brother she carried.
I’ve been in bad hemorraging situations, and I was
totally freaked out, in pain and hyper anxious, crying.
I can only imagine the magnification of that with a
miscarriage .. the stress coupled with the anguish of
the sad loss of the baby.
I’ve been through it and the doctor does ask you to bring in what your body has rejected so they can confirm a miscarrage of a pregnancy.
Rush is interviewing GW Bush between 1 PM and 1:30. I hope this is also discussed:
Bush: “Damn Right” I Approved Waterboarding
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2621304/posts
Yeah, you figured that all out by yourself. Good job, Sparky.
Maybe they did.
On the campus of Texas A&M University is the George Bush (Senior) Library. I used to ride my mountain bike around campus at night, and once I came across a fancy new mausoleum-type crypt near the library, in an out of the way place that few would simpy stumble across. I asked around and was told that is was the resting place of Dubya's sister who died at birth. Maybe the miscarried baby and this one are one and the same.
I agree with you completely and can’t believe I got taken to task on this.
A mother has lost a precious child. She is instructed to preserve the baby and take it to the hospital, so she does so. She is in no condition to drive herself, so she asks her trusted teenaged son to drive her. He does, and because he is there, he sees this precious sibling 'in a jar.'
It's being portrayed by some here as a heartless mother with a jar taking her little boy aside and saying, "Look at this!" when it is a different situation entirely.
I will agree that having to do what Bar did, and what young George W. had to do, is both bizarre and disturbing, but I would ask you both how a deeply distraught mother following doctor's instructions could have handled it differently to make it less 'bizarre.'
Obviously I mistyped 18th for 19th. I saw it as soon as I posted it, but didn’t bother correcting it because I figured everyone would know what I meant.
Sorry - didn’t mean to be a pill.
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