Bar's fetus in a jar did NOT make Junior "respect life." Just count the dead in Iraq.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

When Bush's mother showed him her miscarriage
The startling story is getting lots of attention -- but no one is mentioning that Barbara now says she's pro-choice
By Tracy Clark-Flory



In the weirdest news item of the day, the New York Post reveals that when George W. Bush was a teenager, his mother Barbara showed him her miscarried fetus in a jar. "There's no question that affected me, a philosophy that we should respect life," he tells Matt Lauer in an interview that will air tonight. This bizarre anecdote may make Barbara sound like a pro-life extremist who used scare-tactics to sway her son's views of abortion, but what the Post doesn't mention is that the former first lady eventually became pro-choice.

In the NBC interview, the former president explains that in the mid-1960s he had to drive his mom to the hospital after her miscarriage because his dad was out of town. "She said to her teenage kid, 'Here's the fetus,'" Bush says in the interview. "There was a human life, a little brother or sister." Lauer reads an excerpt from Bush's book, "Decision Points," in which he recounts the incident: "I never expected to see the remains of the fetus, which she had saved in a jar to bring to the hospital."

It may have helped to secure Bush's "pro-life" (or anti-choice) position, but it clearly didn't have the same impact on Barbara -- you know, the person who actually experienced it first-hand. In 1994, she revealed that she was pro-choice in an interview with Barbara Walters. Not only that, but during the 2000 presidential campaign, she went so far as to argue that the Republican Party should abandon its anti-choice platform. Note that another pretty important lady in G.W.'s life, wife Laura, has also voiced her belief in a woman's right to choose.

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/11/08/bush_fetus

[warrior1]

1. said the killer of

thousands

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Gee..Was his mother related to MANONDOG Santorum???

[demosincebirth]

3. I can't understand how he's able to sleep at night. four thousand G.I.'s and

thousand of civilians killed for nothing, just to satisfy his ego.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. With parents like that it's no wonder he ended up so twisted.

[spanone]

5. she should have shown him a muslim in a burqa...the world would be a different place

[Hannah Bell]

6. there was no fetus in a jar.

[musette_sf]

8. thank you

agreed.

I get the feeling that this made-up story is actually, in an extremely circuitous way, about Babs NOT telling Little George about what happened to his sister Robin.

And I also think the ONLY reason that GWB is anti-choice was to RAISE MONEY and GET VOTES.

[Hannah Bell]

9. i agree. he doesn't care about killing kids in iraq, he doesn't care about the peons' fetuses.

[NYC Liberal]

7. So does Lauer ask him what he thinks of his mother's PRO-CHOICE position?

Or his wife's? Or does he simply ignore that tidbit?

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say he doesn't. (Maybe I will be surprised...doubt it.)

[NICO9000]

10. I call bullshit on this far-fetched tale

Think about it - rich wife of oil guy decides to save her dead fetus in a jar so she can show it to her kid. Remember, back in those days there were no Operation Rescue nuts waving banners with dead babies on 'em. Tragedies like a miscarriage where usually a private matter, not something used to make a twisted point.

Then again, this is the Bush Crime Family we're talking about, so I suppose anything is within the realm of possibility.

[Donnachaidh]

11. this is the same woman that went golfing during her kid's funeral?

Didn't GW have a sibling (girl IIRC) who died and the parents went golfing rather than attend the actual burial. This family is sick and twisted, period.