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Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Sunday is National Sanctity of Human Life Day...no execution planned in Texas that day
Pledging to build a culture that respects life, President Bush is declaring a National Sanctity of Human Life Day.
The president heralded the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act he signed last year, which amends the legal definitions of "person," "human being," "child" and "individual" to include any fetus that survives an abortion procedure.
Bush also underscored his administration's efforts to champion "compassionate alternatives" to abortion, such as promoting maternity group homes, encouraging abstinence and adoption and passing parental-notification and waiting-period laws.
But the president also stopped short of condemning abortion — or the cause of abortion rights activists — outright, using only the veiled language of the anti-abortion movement.
"Every child is a priority and a blessing and I believe that all should be welcomed in life and protected by law," he said. "Through ethical policies and the compassion of Americas, we will continue to build a culture that respects life."
Here is a brief history of Bush respecting life.
As of 7:30pm EDT, December 7, 2000, 152 people have been executed during Bush's tenure as governor. This makes Texas Governor George W. Bush the most-killing Governor, in the history of the United States of America.
Here is Bush being compassionate.
In the second presidential debate, for instance, Bush argued that a stronger hate-crimes law was not needed in Texas because three men were facing the death penalty for the racially motivated murder of James Byrd, a black man dragged to his death behind a pickup truck.
'It's going to be hard to punish them any worse after they're put to death,' Bush said, with an out-of-place smile across his face.
But Bush wasn't telling the truth. One of the three killers actually had received life imprisonment, not the death penalty. Bush had misstated or exaggerated the facts of a major criminal case that had occurred during his tenure as Texas governor.
One could only imagine how the press would have played up a similar mistake by Gore. It would have been all the voters would have heard about for a week.
With its penchant for cookie-cutter 'themes' used to define candidates, the press also might have seized on Bush's smirking comment about the condemned men and used it to remind the public about Bush's earlier insensitivity when he mimicked condemned murderess Carla Faye Tucker as she was pleading for her life.
'With pursed lips in mock desperation, [Bush said] 'Please don't kill me',' wrote Talk magazine's conservative columnist Tucker Carlson.
Here is Bush planning on respecting life.
U.S. and British warplanes have bombed more than 80 targets in Iraq’s southern “no-fly” zone over the past five months, conducting an escalating air war even as U.N. weapons inspections proceed and diplomats look for ways to head off a full-scale war.
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