[JeffAtlanta]

Taking a cheap shot on a day when he has helped many, many future children. Sad and very pathetic. You deserve another Clinton and not someone the quality of GW.

How is it a cheap shot to respond to myriad posts that claim that Bush is a "true conservative" when he really is not?

Bush has always been anti-abortion and in line with the religious right. That has never been disputed by anyone.

[xzins]

It is not possible to be anti-life and also be conservative.

Life is not an “issue;” it is a RIGHT granted by our Creator. To attempt to reduce it to an issue is incredibly self-indulgent.

The Declaration presents it as the FOREMOST Right (Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of happiness.) Indeed, without Life, all other rights are of no consequence. Dead men don’t care about liberty and happiness.

The Constitution enshrines the RIGHT of Life in the Bill of Rights when it says that we shall NOT be deprived of LIFE without due process of LAW...in other words, without sincere, debated, responsible LEGISLATIVE parameters. There is no such requirement for some woman’s right on her own to take a life.

LIFE cannot be taken without CONGRESSIONAL laws setting parameters. That debate had never taken place, since the COURTS had swept away CONGRESS’ power to decide such things.

This bill is a CONGRESSIONAL input into the debate. It is NOT an intrusion.

This is the way it is supposed to work according to America’s Constitution.