Micah 6:8

Is Bush Really Pro-Life?

I'm totally tired of the monopoly that US politics has had in the blog world recently but I thought that I would add my two bits anyways. Sorry if I cause any fellow non-Americans to commit suicide because they have to endure another Bush vs Kerry blog entry. I just couldn't resist.

I'd like to challenge the belief that Bush is actually pro-life. I know that he signed the bill to ban partial birth abortion but he has made no other efforts to protect the unborn. Do you think that perhaps the bill signing was a campaign strategy? Bush also believes that abortion should be legal in cases of rape and incest. That's not pro-life that's confused.

The other thing to consider is that if Bush was truly pro-life, would he be supportive of the war on Iraq? Abortion is wrong because it is the murder of innocent people. War is wrong because it is the murder of innocent people (unless you can conjure up a situation where the innocent weren't being killed alongside the guilty). If you think that the war is justified because of the evil of Iraq then I could argue that it would be right for Iraq to invade the US based on the evil of the genocide of it's unborn children.

I'm not advocating that you vote for Kerry either. I think that if their is no pro-life candidate then a person should spoil their ballot. I can' see any good reason to do the "lesser of two evils" sort of vote. I will not in any way support of candidate that believes that the murder of the innocent is justified.