Barbara Bush (elder) was Pro-Choice

[LakeVermilion]

I saw an interview with her regarding abortion. She defined life very simply and accurately:

"When a being does not breathe it is dead. Therefore life begins when a being can breathe." (paraphrased)


My thoughts:

We do not call an egg a chicken, or a duck, or a goose. It is an egg. When it can breathe it is a chicken, turkey, duck, or goose.


* Not a Bush family fan, but in this case the comment makes a point.

[tanyev]

1. I think Laura made some similar statement or insinuation in an interview.

My problem with this is that the Bush ladies were regularly trotted out to put a kindler, gentler face on things when GOP overreach was scaring people. Laura and Barbara would say something that reassured people and it was completely meaningless. The impression was given that the man they were married to would never allow the big scary thing to happen. That wasn't true, and both ladies had to be aware of that, which makes them complicit.

[LakeVermilion]

2. No problem with your point.

My point is that her definition of life is notable.

[PlanetBev]

3. What good was she?

She stood by and watched her husband sell out to get on the Reagan ticket. Same with Laura.

[LakeVermilion]

4. She isn' the point...

Her comment is useful.

[Emile]

5. I tell right wingers life begins at first breath, that's why they call it your birthday!

[LakeVermilion]

6. If the right wing believes in life at conception,

then the tax code should be credit for children when they are conceived.

Don't think that's on their agenda.

[Buckeyeblue]

7. George HW was pro choice as well

But he had to lie about it to get VPand president. His political problem was that he never came across as genuine.

W was able to wipe away his past by claiming to be born again. The cristofacist eat that shit up.

Of course they accepted Trump because...he was the white supremacist they'd been told god would send them.