It's an evil pdf file, so let me summarize. In a guide for forming pro-life consciences they argue:
The BEST way to combat abortion is to give women and families the tools they need to choose life.
- Being pro-life is 1% talk, 99% action....The Bush Administration has done very little to protect the unborn.
But here's a little Bush action for yuz:
- saved us from federally-funded embryonic stem-cell research by executive order and two vetoes;
- stopped federally-funded cloning by vetoing two cunningly-worded "stem cell" bills
- restored the Mexico City Policy
- suspended US funding of China's coercive abortion program through UNFPA after sending a fact-finding mission to investigate the program
- transformed the US delegation to the UN from an abortion-promoting force to a pro-life force, putting us on the side of the angels against the UN's coercive efforts to promote abortion in third-world countries.
- although he lost in the Supreme Court, Bush had his attorney general oppose Oregon's Assisted Suicide law
- in an imaginative move, the administration moved to cover unborn children under S-Chip (which move was vehemently denounced by Democrats, including Obama as noted above)
- appointed pro-life Dr. David Hager to the FDA, who provided heroic resistance to the RU-486 & Plan B juggernaut
- created the Presidential Commission on Bioethics and named as the original chairman the splendid and wise Leon Kass;
- implemented the Infant Adoption Awareness Act, engaging crisis pregnancy centers and the National Council on Adoption to create conferences and a website that as of 2005 had succesfully matched 3000 children with adoptive parents
- aggressively defended the Partial Birth Abortion Ban and signed it into law in 2003
- signed the bill to save Terri Schiavo
- signed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act
- opened Justice Dept. investigations of attacks on churches and pregnancy centers
- resolved nuisance complaints against pro-lifers it inherited from AG Janet Reno
- signed bills maintaining the Hyde Amendment,
- has promoted the snowflake adoption program
- invited Nellie Grey and the March for Life to a White House reception
- Has his HHS secretary aggressively defending the conscience rights of pro-life doctors and pharmacists
- appointed hundreds of solid judges to lower courts
- plus given us Roberts & Alito
- Has been the unabashed abstinence president
- Then there's the usual stuff about pro-life meaning all human life and what about torture and cutting school lunch programs.
- Bush has done more to combat global AIDS than any person on the planet,
- ditto his economic aid to Africa
- ditto his war on malaria
- his wars in Iraq & Afghanistan liberated 50 million people from the nastiest regimes on the planet --including liberating women.
McCain opposes torture and wants to close Gitmo. Whatever may be said in defense of Bush, McCain ain't Bush! The two presidential candidates in this race agree on torture policy.
- Roe v. Wade won't end abortion in America.
And it will go a long way towars ending a federal regime that opposes the foundational insight of our nation: that all men are created equal.
And in any case, by that logic, we shouldn't have any laws, because no laws ever end sin and law-breaking altogether.
This Catholics United stuff is pernicious, errant nonsense.
