Bush - Pro-Life Actions

Before the last election you may have heard people say that neither presidential candidate was pro-life. Even now, some people are still saying George W. Bush is not pro-life. One reason for the persistence of this misapprehension is that the newspapers don’t write in detail about his pro-life actions. However, his actions have stirred up sharp opposition from many of the pro-abortion groups. Given that the newspapers don’t want to write about abortion, it’s significant that Fr. Peter West was able to amass a considerable list of newspaper and magazine headline detailing Bush’s pro-life actions.

Take a look at the list below.

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January 22, 2001 President Bush Reinstates Mexico City Policy http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/01-29-01/mexicocity.html

March 22, 2001 President Bush Helps Dedicate Pope John Paul II Cultural Center http://www.nrlc.org/news/2001/NRL04/

"The Pope reminds us that while freedom defines our nation, responsibility must define our lives," the President said. "He challenges us to live up to our aspirations, to be a fair and just society where all are welcomed, all are valued, and all are protected. And he is never more eloquent than when he speaks for a culture of life. The culture of life is a welcoming culture, never excluding, never dividing, never despairing and always affirming the goodness of life in all its seasons."

March 28, 2001 Reuters reports "Bush issues abortion rule order, outflanks Senate" http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/bush_abortionrights010122.html

April 17, 2001 President Bush Restricts RU-86 Funding and Close White House Feminist Office http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/apr/01040303.html

April 24, 2001 Bush Bans Sex Films from Air Force One http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_270918.html

April 25, 2001 President Bush appoints Fatherhood proponent http://www.familiesnorthwest.org/dynpage.cfm?DPID=65

April 30, 2001 Proclamation - National Day of Prayer http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010430-2.html

May 16, 2001 U.S. House Backs President Bush in Denying Funds to Overseas Groups That Promote Abortion Legalization http://www.consistentlife.org/US%20House%20Upholds%20Pro-life%20Mexico%20City%20Policy.htm

May 17, 2001 Bush Administration Begins Effort to Put Pro-Life Advocates on Intl Panels - Reported in the Washington Post

May 21 Further Analysis Shows Bush's First Judicial Picks Promising Source: Pro-Life Infonet

May 26 Bush Overrules Powell on Nominee Appoints Pro-lifer to Important State Department Post http://tennesseerighttolife.org/news_center/archives/05262001-03.htm

June 1, 2001 Bush Won't Issue Gay Proclamation, Opts Out of Gay Pride Day - Reported by Associated Press

June 21, 2001 Bush Supports Strongest Pro-Life Ban on Human Cloning - Reported by Associated Press

July 6, 2001 Bush Administration Awards Abstinence Grants to CPCs, Pro-Life Groups

August 13, 2001 Bush Would Veto Any Funding of Additional ESCR

August 16, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft recently warned that less than 10 % of judges nominated by Bush have even had a hearing before the Democratically led Senate Judiciary Committee

August 28, 2001 Bush Won't Back Down to the United Nations on Abortion - reported by Reuters

October 15, 2001 Bush Administration Awards Adoption Awareness Grants- HHS Press Release

November 7, 2001 White House and Lawmakers Fight Pro-Abortion Amendments

Democratically Led Senate Attempts to Weaken Pro-Life Policies Are Blocked by Veto Threats and Pro-Life Lawmakers

December 5, 2001 Bush Selects Pro-Life Ex-Gov to Head Republican Party

December 10, 2002 Changes in the White House (from the Patriot's Herald) http://www.patriotsherald.com/content/changed.php  

January 31, 2002 Bush Administration Proposes Coverage of Unborn Children in Health Insurance http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/jan/02013106.html

February 26, 2002 President Bush's Remarks at St. Luke's Catholic Church http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/images/20020226-11.html

September 27, 2002 Bush Administration Finalizes Coverage of Unborn Child in Health Insurance http://www.vshl.org/press/2002/nrlc_20020927.shtml

January 18, 2002 Bush Declares Sanctity of Life Day January 20, 2002 http://www.priestsforlife.org/government/02-01-18bush.htm

January 22, 2002 Remarks By President Bush in Phone Call to March For Life Participants http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/jan/020122a.html

January 30, 2002 President Bush Seeks Increased Abstinence Funding -Reported By Associated Press

January 31, 2002 Bush Administration Classifies Developing Fetus as Unborn Child - Reported By Associated Press

States may classify a developing fetus as an "unborn child" eligible for government health care, the Bush administration said Thursday, giving low-income women access to prenatal care and bolstering the arguments of abortion opponents.

February 1, 2002 President Bush has chosen an advocate for the aging who once worked with Mother Teresa to head his revamped effort to provide federal funds to religious charities. See the interview with Jim Towey in Crisis Magazine http://www.crisismagazine.com/june2002/feature6.htm

February 2, 2002 President Bush's Sincere Appreciation For Prayers Said For Him http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/bushprayerreq.htm

February 8, 2002 Federally Funded Planned Parenthood Launches All Out Attack Against Bush Judicial Nominee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/624592/posts

February 26, 2002 The President's Welfare Reform focuses on families, abstinence and work http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0019805.html

March 6, 2002 Bush's National Institute of Health Nominee Supports Complete Ban on Human Cloning - Reported by Washington Post, Baltimore Sun

March 14, 2002 Democratically led Senate quashes Nomination of Pro-Life Judge Charles Pickering http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/NEWS/newspage.asp?story=918

April 8, 2002 President Bush Will Speak to Pro-Life Leaders Wednesday- Reported by National Right to Life News

April 10, 2002 President Bush's Remarks in Opposition to Human Cloning http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html

April 11, 2002 President Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban http://www.nrlc.org/nv041102.html

April 11, 2002 Friday Fax/UN Decides Against Cairo+10, Fears Bush Administration

May 2, 2002 Proclamation National Day of Prayer http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/media/president.cfm

May 2, 2002 Bush Administration Opposing Abortion at UN Child Conference - Reported by Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute

May 23, 2002 Pro-Life Judge D. Brook Smith confirmed for Third Circuit Court of Appeals http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/SHAKE/shakeHome.asp

May 26, 2002 Atheist loses bid to halt Bush's faith references http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/2882530p-3704157c.html

May 31, 2002 Crisis Magazine Editor Evaluates Bush's Relations With U.S. Catholics http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200206/0009.html

July 9, 2002 Pro-Abortion Groups Attack Bush Judicial Nominee- Priscilla Owen - Reported by Associated Press

July 22, 2002 Bush Administration Withholds UNFPA Money- Reported by Associated Press

July 24, 2002 Bush Announces Initiavtive to Encourage Adoptoin of Children in Foster Care http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/07/20020723.html

August 5, 2002 Bush Signs Born-Alive Infants Protection Act

September 17, 2002 NARAL Opposes Michael McConnell's Nomination to the Tenth Circuit Court Of Appeals Statement of NARAL President Kate Michelman http://www.naral.org/mediaresources/press/2002/pr091702_mcconnell.html

October 3, 2002 Democrat-Controlled U.S. Senate Kills Pro-Life Bills Favored by President Bush and Passed by U.S. House http://www.nrlc.org/Federal/LegUpdates/Congressionalwrapup100302.html

* The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965), passed by the House on July 24, 2002, 274-151.

* The Weldon-Stupak-Brownback legislation to ban all human cloning, including the cloning of human embryos (H.R. 2505, S. 1899), passed by the House on July 31, 2001, 265-162.

* The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 503), a bill to recognize as a legal victim any unborn child who is injured or killed during commission of a federal crime, passed by the House on April 26, 2001, 252-172.

* The Child Custody Protection Act (H.R. 476), to make it a crime to take a minor across state lines for a secret abortion, if this abridges her parents right to be involved under their home-state law, passed by the House on April 17, 2002, 260-161.

* The Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 4691), to prohibit state and local governments from discriminating against hospitals and other health care providers for refusing to participate in abortions, passed by the House on September 25, 2002, 229-189.

October 6, 2002 President Bush Building Strong Pro-Life Record _Reported by Boston Globe

October 14, 2002 White House staffers gather for Voluntary Bible Study Voluntary Meetings - Reported by USA Today

October 17, 2002 Germany Attacks Bush Administration Position Against All Human Cloning - Reported By Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute

October 29, 2002 Pro-Abortion Group and Senator Daschle jointly appeal for pro-abortion Senate- Reported by National Right to Life Source: Email Sent From NARAL

October 29, 2002 Pro-Abortion Group opposes nomination of Dr. W. David Hager to chair the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. Hager is a member groups like Christian Medical Association and Physicians Resource Council for Focus on the Family source California Abortion Rights Action League http://www.caral.org/alert_current.html

October 30, 2002 Bush Directs Advisory Committee to Protect Human Embryos Source: Associated Press,Washington Post

October 31, 2002 Pro-Life Groups Applaud Bush Decision on Human Embryos Source:Cybercast News Service

November 1, 2002 Bush backs away from reproductive health pact Source: Knight Ridder Newspapers http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/4424134.htm

November 8, 2002 Bush Administration Fights for UN to Oppose All Human Cloning Source: Reuters

November 8, 2002 Bush Right to Oppose Abortion at International Meetings -article by Steven Mosher Source:Population Resource Institute

November 14, 2002 White House Pressures Congress to Keep Military Abortion Ban Source: Pro-Life Infonet

Novermber 18, 2002 Pro-Abortion Senators May Filibuster Pro-Life Judicial Nominee Source: NY Times, National Review

November 19, 2002 Senate Approves Pro-Life Judicial Nominee Source:Associated Press

November 19, 2002 Bush Administration Opposition Continues to Derail Fake UN Cloning Ban Source: Associated Press

November 21, 2002 Bush Nominee for FDA Panel Says RU 486 Unsafe Source: Cybercast News Service

November 25, 2002 Abortion Advocates Bash Bush's Pro-Life Foreign Policy Source: Cybercast News Service

November 26, 2002 Don't Believe the Media Portrayal of Bush as Not Pro-Life by Paul Weyrich Source: Cybercast News Service

November 26, 2002 Radicals Attack Bush Because of UN Pro-life Stance Source: Austin Ruse of Friday Fax

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Quite a list. If Mr. Bush were King, he could have done more. But he’s only the President. During the period covered by this list, all the progress he made was against a hostile Senate with the pro-abortion people constantly giving him heat.

Thank you, Mr. President, for your persistence and courage.