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Thanks for this post. I had a sad feeling that the pro-life establishment, bought and paid for by the GOP, would even stoop to defending and applauding Gonzales. At times I even thought it would be impossible for even them, but never discount the beltway harlots. There is no original-intent defense for what he did in Texas. The major people who were invloved in creating the Texas parental notice law have condemed him for his decision. It was in the courts perview to apply the judicial bypass, and he chose to turn it into a tunnel that you could fit a mac-truck through. You cant say he was "just following orders," or "interpriting the law". Even if the judical bypass provision was clear in favor of the abortion, NATRUAL LAW prohibits any government, any official or jurist tasked with enforcing and protecting the common good from taking the life of another, or allowing a murder to happen under cover of law. That is NOT judicial activism, its self-evident Natural Law, embraced by our founders. I wonder if the state of Texas and the US Congress were to repeal the 13th amendment and allow for slavery again, if many of these leaders would claim that a judge who would then sends a person back into slavery was just "following orders/the law" and upholding the slaveowners right to choose. If Bush appointed him, Im sure they would, so I dont even want to think about it further.

Gonzales, or anyone else who allows or favors any abortion under cover of law, has no place in government or on any court, even if he is "only" in charge of the Justice Department, which upholds the legal common good. People are policy.

Background info:

http://www.rnclife.org/reports/2000/mar00/mar00.html

http://www.rnclife.org/reports/2002/Oct02/oct02.shtml

The "Parental Consent" charade in Texas was the initial blow to the gut which ruined my plans to vote for Bush last time around.

I tried in vain to get folks to actually read the bill or pay attention to the immediate precedent that was Supreme Court-ordered abortions for minors sans parental notice, much less consent. (These, of course, being only those minor abortions where Mommy the Magistrate hadn't already decided that the girls were mature enough to make this decision.)

The legislation obtained a properly defined Square One and, in the process, gifted the pro-aborts with fasttrack through the system, increased veils of privacy for providers and their shills and capped damages for offending abortionists.

Idiot FReepers tossed their hats in the air, yelling "Don't Mess with Texas!"

I headed to DC where I called the NRLC and asked to meet with their legislative director. Turns out the Texas Legislative Director was covering him that week! We spoke for three hours over lunch.

I was absolutely right ... even where I felt he'd been mispresenting the bill, then, in the newspapers.

Yes, he said, but if girls have the "impression" that they'll have to tell their parents ...

(All they need do is make one phone call to have that much cleared up by a helpful abortion provider or school nurse.)

It's sickening.

You are so right to term the pro-life movement as "bought and paid for" by the GOP who keep them busy-busy-busy with letter writing campaigns and "get out the vote" on behalf of the Personally-Opposed-But potemkin politicians and NRLC.

Abortion is, and always has been, a GOP policy. They were first to pitch it in Congress and the first to make it a "vital" element of our population control policies at home and abroad.

The truth hurts ... but only for a moment. The clarity and reordering of priorities once things FINALLY make sense for a change is well worth the gut-wrenching realization you've been played for a sucker your entire life.