So, now we have a new definition to the term "pro life".
False.
The term "pro-life" has always accurately been as I have implied, a complete respect for the life of all who are not in the immediate process of attempting to take the life of another and, in so attempting to murder, they might thereby die as an unintentional yet rational response of self-defense to keep them from murdering.
Well, who really fits that definition?
The fact that those reflecting either of the dualistic polemics of contemporary liberal and conservative philosophies may not rightly qualify as pro-life does in no way detract from the fact that the majority of the silent moderate majority does.
We continue to get the Washinton politicians we do because getting elected is all about appealing to extreme factions with money.
Usually, people who are against abortion are for the death penalty, and vice versa.
Which makes them anti-abortion, not pro-life.
Did Bush promise to end abortion? I don't recall that, but maybe he did.
GWB pandered to his constituency in 2004 by championing the partial birth abortion prohibition act immediately before the election, subsequently giving relevant speechs on the matter indicating that a vote for GWB was a vote for the lives of the unborn.
He could have championed this act in previous years ... but his timing was a deliberate act to motivate his constituents to go to the polls so that the 2004 election wouldn't be as close as the 2000 election.
He did the same thing that year with regard to prohibiting gay/lesbian marriage.
His pandering is disgustingly obvious.
He never had any intention of working for either issue after he was elected ... as evidenced by the fact that he effectively dropped the matters after he was elected.
If so, he promised what he knew, and his supporters and political enemies alike should have known, he couldn't deliver. Abortion was legalized by the Supreme Court, and can't be outlawed by the president or the Congress.
First of all, how many people to whom he pandered truly understood the operations of the government -- not a ton of them, I would imagine. But, he didn't care -- he knew he could get many to the polls with his pandering.
As for what he could do, he could replace a retired liberal Supreme Court Justice with one who is more respectful of all human rights of all people, one who is in touch with modern day science ... and then someday Roe v Wade would be rightly overturned.
If that is so, then who in Washington doesn't have "serious neuropsychological flaws?
Well, in effect, we rest our case ... though Ron Paul may come the closest to being relevantly unflawed.
Nevertheless, it does us no good with respect to the human rights of all to lament how disrespectful most money-faction pandering politicians are.
What does us good is to recognize the truth of the foundational right to life of all and to champion that truth, chastizing all who advocate violation of it ... until one day a truly honorable person appears upon the political scene.