[Pyro7480]

From Press Conference by the President

Q [by Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon]: Thank you very much. Mr. President, some pro-life groups are worried that your choice of FDA Commissioner will approve over the counter sales of Plan B, a pill that, they say, essentially can cause early-term abortions. Do you stand by this choice, and how do you feel about Plan B in general?

THE PRESIDENT: I believe that Plan B ought to be -- ought to require a prescription for minors, is what I believe. And I support Andy's decision.

E-mail or call the White House and tell them what you think about his statement earlier today.

Phone: 202-456-1111
E-mail: comments@whitehouse.gov

[Pyro7480]

Catholic and pro-life ping!

[Brilliant]

"implied support"



"Implied support" overrides express opposition?

[DustyMoment]

Well, there goes ANY chance of his being re-elected!!!

[paddles]

Yeah, like Catholics have been really big Bush supporters anyway.

[redgolum]

Missed that. Nuts.

[Red6]

Who ever thought Bush was a true "conservative"?

Look at his waffling on the issue of boarder security with Mexico. Look at his rubber stamp on pork belly projects and even the Katrina aftermath. He made massive compromises that out out of character for a true lean government conservative.

The irony with Bush is that he is hated among liberals world wide, but he is himself in reality no real hard line conservative. The man who is deemed as "unilateral" by Chirac/Schroeder and Co. in reality went to the UN for yet another resolution to meet the needs of a Coalition parter GB that requested this action. He didn't need it in the first place. Furthermore the motivation for the political initiative of an additional resolution was to meet multilateral political needs. Did Reagan ask for permission in Panama, Grenada, Libya or even the arming of Afghanis to fight the Soviets? No.

I think Bush is a good President in the bigger picture, but he is not at ALL the hard line conservative which the liberals make him out to be and I wish he were.

[longtermmemmory]

someone read the dixie chix ask for divorce from country fans article.

[HawaiianGecko]

Personally I think people ought to use their limited time on earth convincing people not to have abortions, rather than wasting their energy trying to outlaw the procedure. Who cares if abortion is legal if nobody is doing it?

[Nextrush]

Plan B is an abortifacient in some cases and allowing it to be distributed by prescription is wrong.

This is the way politicians double talk.

Plan B is promoted as birth control and as one GOP politico who is now the county chairman here in York County, PA put it some years ago. "I'm against abortion but I'm for birth control."

Wrong move for President Bush. He said he supports the plan for women over 18 to be able to get it. Its a microabortion drug. Wrong move Bush, Period.

[Guenevere]

I will withhold my thoughts for now....more info.

[gcruse]

Too many people want their religion running the government, that government then running the lives of Americans.

[NYer]

Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[mollynme]

Just out of curiosity, why hasn't W been condemned for not coming out against the IUD and those forms of "the pill" that prevent the implantation of the fertilized egg. What is the difference between them and "Plan B"?
I am opposed to all of them myself but wonder why the protests are only against his treating this method of abortion like the others.

[Jaded]

What a snappy little headline. Mark for later.

[murphE]

President Bush Files for Divorce with Catholic Base

Not to worry, I'm sure we have grounds for an annulment. ;-D

[Coleus]

Don't forget his family and many of the blue bloods are big in Malthusian Population Control, his father wrote the Title X bill in 1969. Once many of the Catholic Mexicans come here and assimilate into our culture, they too, will be encouraged to "prevent" and "control" births. Do you really think that it's about picking crops and votes the republicans will never get?

[marajade]

And is there a statistic that shows how many Catholic women use contraceptives against the teaching of the Church?

I would guess you all would just be amazed.

[JHBowden]

If Bush keeps losing support like this, he'll be out of office by January 2009!

[LadyDoc]

well, he's stuck since it is a medical decision and abortion is legal...

And since we've been able to order women to take pills similar to plan B for twenty years, it's not exactly new. Indeed, we used to believe that since sex caused ovulation, and sperm took hours to hit the ovum, that taking it right away would be contraceptive, not abortifactive...

[Scholastic]

Cheers to Father for a great statement. Waiting for the same intellecual honesty from other figures in the Pro-life movement.