Bush Betrayed Pro-Lifers Again, But Did They
Even Notice?By Chuck BaldwinThe Covenant News ~ March 4, 2003
Once again, President G. W. Bush has betrayed the pro-life
cause. According to Knox News, "In a major policy shift, President Bush
has decided to allow social service agencies in Africa and the Caribbean
to receive U.S. funds under his $15 billion emergency AIDS relief plan
even if they promote family planning and provide abortions, White House
officials said."
The Washington Times added, "The new plan grows
out of the 'Mexico City' policy-first declared by President Reagan at a
1984 U.N. conference in that city-which bars U.S. taxpayer money from
going to groups that fund or promote abortion overseas."
Bush's
initial decision to continue Reagan's policy to not provide funds for
overseas abortion providers was about the only substantive pro-life
decision so far in his administration. Now that he has reversed the
policy, the sum total of Bush's commitment to the life issue is his
carefully crafted, but meaningless, rhetoric!
However, what is
more disheartening is the fact that most "pro-lifers" won't even notice.
Because Bush talks pro-life, very few people bother to examine his
record on the subject. We are living in a day and age in which the sum
total of a politicians' accountability is reduced to thirty second sound
bites on television news. President Bush is a living example of the old
adage, "The man who has the reputation of rising early can sleep 'till
noon."
Obviously, a few pro-lifers are paying attention. The
Times quotes Connie Mackay from the Family Research Council as saying,
"This is not acceptable to us." However, for the most part, pro-lifers
seem oblivious to Bush's most recent betrayal.
Those who believe
that President Bush is going to do anything to reverse the Roe v Wade
Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on demand are living in a
dream world! They are also dreaming if they believe the Republican Party
as a whole has any intention of making abortion illegal.
Until
pro-lifers come to understand that at the national level neither the
Republican nor the Democratic party represents them and begin mustering
their forces behind genuine pro-life candidates from outside the
establishment parties, there will be no end to legal abortions. Then
again, that requires that people actually start paying more attention to
what politicians do than what they say, and that doesn't seem likely to
happen anytime soon, either.
