This was Bush’s message to anti-abortion marchers in Washington D.C. on Monday, January 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade:
It is important for all Americans to remember that our Declaration of Independence states that every person has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It also states that these rights come from our Creator, and that governments are formed to secure these rights for all their citizens. And we believe every human life has value, and we pray for the day when every child is welcome in life and protected into law.
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Sara Paretsky recently wrote an op/ed piece in the Chicago Tribune
that tore into the Bush administration’s attacks on women and the right
to abortion. She cited studies which indicate that as a direct result
of Bush’s anti-woman, anti-abortion policies and directives, “in the
six years of Bush’s presidency, more than 30 million women have lost
their lives or health because they did not have access to health
services“. 30 million.
A recent public letter by 100 prominent British doctors indicates
that children in Iraq are dying and suffering needlessly because they
are consciously denied medical care by the U.S. and England – in direct
violation of the Geneva Convention.
Add to this the hundreds of thousands who have lost their lives in
Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of U.S. invasions led by Bush. Add to
this the people – including children – who lost their lives and were
left to suffer for a week in New Orleans. And ask yourself how much
Bush values human life – especially women’s lives; ask yourself whether
actual existing children are welcomed or tormented in life by Bush. And
ask yourself how you can do everything you can to be part of a
political movement aimed at Driving Out the Bush Regime, for its many
crimes against humanity.