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On a fall day in 2000, George W. Bush was hard at work on the presidential campaign trail. He spoke to a crowd gathered in La Crosse, Wisc. on the topic of family values: “Families is where our nation finds hope,” Bush maintained, “where wings take dream.” The president’s soaring rhetoric is especially pertinent today, almost three years later, as American families face some of the highest unemployment rates and wage differentials in decades. Whatever he meant to say, it’s hard to imagine Bush was really contemplating a dreamy future for American families.
While Dubya signed into law the ban on “partial-birth” abortion this week, I found myself repeating the president’s words. There is a photograph of Bush posted on the National Abortion Rights Action League website; nine other white, male colleagues circle around him like a big, happy, arch-conservative family, and Dubya’s grinning like it’s Christmas. This photograph paired with Bush’s stirring quote brings home the dreariness of our current political situation.
Silly me, despite the dire warnings from pro-choice spokespersons about how the “partial-birth” abortion ban tears at the fabric of Roe v. Wade, I wasn’t too worried about the new legislation. I knew that “partial-birth” abortions were pretty rare, and so it all seemed like a hollow victory for the pro-life lobby. That was until I read the fine print. There is one exception built into the ban—doctors are allowed to perform the operation if the pregnancy puts the woman’s life in danger (pro-life legislators can be so generous sometimes). But that’s where the exception ends: if the woman’s health will be compromised by the pregnancy, the abortion is still illegal.
You can almost imagine Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. clenching his fist in triumph when that exception was taken away, signaling a chilling disregard for the health of a pregnant woman. The Senate’s only M.D. must be pleased to do his part to ensure women will be more unhealthy and unready for motherhood.
Bill Frist and his geeky little friend, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. are also partly responsible for Bush’s nomination of three new rabidly conservative judicial nominees this week. Although the Bush administration doesn’t dare claim openly it wants to tear down Roe, its judicial nominees aren’t afraid to say so out loud. One of them, Carolyn Kuhl, advocated for Roe v. Wade’s devastation while in the Reagan administration. (As my dad used to say about irresponsible drivers when he drove me to school during rush hour: “They’re out there, Beccah, they’re out there.”)
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