by Rusty Pugh
(AgapePress) – One of the nation’s leading pro-life advocates says President Bush is not moving fast enough to protect the lives of innocent unborn children.
George W. Bush is generally considered a friend to the pro-life movement. But American Life League president Judie Brown does not share that sentiment. Brown believes Bush could be moving faster to ensure the safety of millions of unborn children.
Brown says Bush has not taken action to ban the abortion drug RU-486. She says even The Washington Post reported that the FDA’s fast-track approval of RU-486 could provide grounds for the Administration to ban it.
“He in fact is an individual who, when he ran for President, claimed that he was interested in consensus-building and apparently that has to do with killing babies as well,” Brown says. “If a consensus agreed that something should be done to take RU-486 off the market he might do something about it. If a consensus is formed with quite the opposite viewpoint, apparently the President will yield to that consensus. So what we have here is a problem of moral relativism in its worst.”
Brown says the President must realize that the time to ban the abortion drug is now — before more innocent lives are lost, not after consensus is formed.
Many pro-life issues are getting attention from activists like Brown as they implement their strategy for the congressional session. Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America says ending partial-birth abortion will be near the top of the pro-life list.
“We are working to get the FDA to reverse their approval of RU-486 and we want to get legislation that children [who] are born alive will be protected in the law as persons, which right now they are not being protected,” Wright says.
Wright expects action in these areas to take place by the end of spring.
Meanwhile, the assertion by Vice President Dick Cheney that the Bush Administration will not push for a law that bans partial-birth abortion does not concern Carol Tobias of National Right to Life. She says President Bush will sign that and other anti-abortion bills into law, but they will have to come from some source other than the White House.
“I think he’s going to be working with Congress, and certainly those bills would be coming from members of Congress working with pro-life groups,” Tobias says. “President Bush has been a long-time pro-lifer and we are very pleased with his position. We believe his personal beliefs will carry through with his policies.”
Tobias expects the next four years to be a great time for protecting the unborn.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
