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Bush Recalls Graphic Pro-Life Moment: Mom Showed Me Her Miscarried Fetus in a Jar
The Blaze ^ | NOVEMBER 8, 2010 | Jonathon M. Seidl

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: barbarabush; bush; miscarriage; presgeorgewbush; presidentbush; presidentgeorgewbush; prolife
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To: Sacajaweau

‘..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.


61 posted on 11/08/2010 7:36:43 PM PST by 4integrity
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To: Cicero
But it seems very strange to me that a mother would show it to her small child. That is strange, indeed.

Thank you. THAT is what is disturbing to me.

62 posted on 11/08/2010 7:37:16 PM PST by rintense
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To: STARWISE
Sorry, Star, you know how I feel about Dubya, but I just find this wrong on so many levels. Yes, I get the whys. But I would never show it to a child, regardless of age- teen of whatever.

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.

63 posted on 11/08/2010 7:41:32 PM PST by rintense
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To: STARWISE

I remember him telling that story, about Robin. I cried.


64 posted on 11/08/2010 7:44:55 PM PST by rintense
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To: rintense

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.


65 posted on 11/08/2010 7:50:17 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: rintense

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.


66 posted on 11/08/2010 8:01:24 PM PST by Palladin (PA. Goes Republican! Gloating feels good!!)
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To: STARWISE

Thank you for the Ping, Starwise. God Bless!


67 posted on 11/08/2010 9:20:28 PM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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To: rintense

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.


68 posted on 11/08/2010 9:20:51 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: RobinMasters

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.


69 posted on 11/08/2010 9:44:50 PM PST by potlatch ( Life must be lived forward but can only be seen looking backward. - Soren Kierkegaard)
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To: SunkenCiv

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


70 posted on 11/09/2010 2:35:10 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Our 2010 victory was won the Tea Party Way, not the RINO way.)
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To: bolobaby

Yeah, you figured that all out by yourself. Good job, Sparky.


71 posted on 11/09/2010 3:18:47 AM PST by rintense
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To: GraceG
"...why not give it a proper burial?..."

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.

72 posted on 11/09/2010 5:33:21 AM PST by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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To: rintense

I agree with you completely and can’t believe I got taken to task on this.


73 posted on 11/09/2010 5:56:07 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Constitution Day; rintense
The entire scenario is 'bizarre' because of its indescribable tragedy.

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.'

74 posted on 11/09/2010 7:01:59 AM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: kabumpo

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.


75 posted on 11/09/2010 9:45:12 AM PST by nina0113
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To: nina0113

Sorry - didn’t mean to be a pill.


76 posted on 11/09/2010 4:57:12 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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