Record of Pro-Life George W. Bush

Compared With Pro-Choice Bill Clinton

by

Neal Horsley

(Christian Gallery News Service, October 21, 2004) Recently a Christian, Father Peter West, submitted a list of President George W. Bush’s pro-life accomplishments over the last four years. His purpose was to demonstrate why people who care about unborn babies should vote for George W. Bush rather than John Kerry for President. Father West explained, “I started to compile this list shortly after the President was inaugurated after hearing from many, who consider themselves pro-life, that Bush was not really pro-life. I disagreed and began compiling this list. I had no idea when I started that it would be so long.” And it is a very long list. Depending on how you organize the items, you will find upwards of 249 things that Father Peter West says proves President George W. Bush is a pro-life person. Here is why I was moved to write this response to Father West’s list: I compared the list submitted by Father West with a list of accomplishments made by President Bill Clinton during his eight years in office and that comparison leads to an incontrovertible conclusion that sheds much light on the present condition of life in America: Both President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush were responsible for saving exactly the same number of unborn babies from legalized slaughter: Zero.

[Click here and you can see Fr. Peter West’s list.] There was no need to post a corresponding list of Bill Clinton’s because there were no items comparable to those compiled by Father West. But therein lies the real point of this article. While there are no bullet items proving Bill Clinton’s attempts to do things that the pro-life community would list as positive accomplishments, and while there are literally hundreds of things that George W. Bush has done that the pro-life community can use as evidence that George W. Bush is pro-life, the actions of neither man can be proven to have saved one unborn baby from death.

Can you feel the chilling consequences created by that one incontrovertible fact?

That one fact offers evidence demonstrating that the present political process in the USA is a sham. Both the pro-abortion movement and the pro-life movement are engaged in a debate that has become an end in itself. In other words, the only thing that is actually being accomplished in the political debate about abortion is the debate itself. Words abound but no babies are being delivered from unjust slaughter.

And that has been the consistent story in the political realm for over 31 years since Roe v. Wade.

Actually the present political process is more than a mere sham; the political process in the USA is also a baby sitter for the American people. The political process, instead of being an instrument of change in this nation, has become a tool, like the television sets that bring the political process to view, to give the kids something to do while the grownups are at work. Even though much talk is accomplished in politics, virtually nothing has changed in the USA for decades—except the fear of death has grown.

Legalized abortion is both a proof and an example of how the political process has been turned into a babysitter’s best friend when the kids are uneasy and prone to discontent. For over three decades millions of people in this nation have claimed that small human beings were legally being ripped apart on a daily basis. The political process has responded by developing two clearly defined opposing camps: the pro-life and the pro-choice. Politicians have been raised up by the two camps to participate in the political debate. And while that has been going on, the political process has not saved one human being from being slaughtered.

That is not to say that no human beings have been saved, but they were not saved by the present political process. During that three decades there were groups and individuals who actually did things that delivered babies who were scheduled to die from their appointment with death. (Most of those babies are with us today. There are not many of them but I have had the opportunity to hear from some of them and they are glad to be alive.) Sadly, most of the groups and individuals who actually saved babies from being slaughtered have given up their work, been put in prison, or killed. While there are still a few, isolated people scattered across the nation trying to intervene to stop mothers from killing their babies, the rest of us have settled on the political process as the way we fulfill our obligations to God and to the unborn babies.

Why do we do this? It is obvious why the pro-choice people invest themselves heavily into political action: they get what they want—“free” and “legal” and unrestricted abortion; millions each year. What is not so obvious is why people like Father Peter West who claim to want to stop unborn babies from being butchered continue to admonish people to look to the political process for relief.

While youth and inexperience might explain the actions of many, the actions of men like Father Peter West are strange to say the least. He is old enough to have remembered the Presidency of Ronald Reagan nearly twenty years ago. At that time there were people who created exact replicas of the list West created for George W. Bush. At that time such lists made sense. At that time there was a reasonable basis for believing that a pro-life President would actually do things that had the power to save the lives of unborn babies.

But time and experience proved that hope to be an illusion. Even though the President was a “Christian,” was “Pro-life”, the President did nothing to save one, single unborn baby from being legally butchered like a trash fish nobody wanted to eat. The experience was compounded by George H.W. Bush, the next “Christian,” “Pro-life” President, the father of the present President.

Now we have had four more years of Bush the younger and we have yet to see one human being among us who has been delivered from slaughter by anything any of these “Christian” “Pro-life” Presidents has accomplished.

Yet men like Father Peter West and all the pastors and teachers like him teach us to look to the present political process for some kind of “solution.” With fathers like that there is no wonder that millions of God’s children are left to be legally butchered with nothing on the horizon that can deliver them from such unjust slaughter. Such “fathers” are false fathers and have nothing to do with the true fathers of the church.

WHAT THE TRUE FATHERS MUST SAY

The true fathers of the church will be telling you that when we stand by and allow unborn babies to be slaughtered we are literally standing by and allowing the Body of Christ to be ripped apart member by member.

When the Lord Jesus Christ said, “As ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me…” He was not using either a figure of speech or an exaggeration. Those who obey the Lord Jesus Christ obey Him because they are literally members of His Body. Only members of the Body of Christ will obey the Lord Jesus Christ, all others are in bondage to Satan who holds the whole world in bondage—except for those who are in the Body of Christ.

Except for those woeful few people around the nation and the world actively trying to intervene to stop people from killing unborn babies, neither Catholic nor Protestant Christians understand nor act like unborn babies are members of the Body of Christ. But they are. In fact, either the least of God’s children—unborn babies--are in the Body of Christ--members of the Body of Christ--or He has no members at all anywhere.

The Apostle Paul tells us how to tell those who are members of the Body of Christ from those who are not. He said, Colossians “¹⁸Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.”

By not “holding the Head” we prove we are not members of the Body. We “hold the Head” when we let the Head guide us in all that we do.

Unborn babies are the Lord’s own example of what people look like who are “holding the Head.” Matthew 18:3: ³And [Jesus] said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. ⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

What the Lord Jesus Christ meant in the verse above when he said “humble” was the unthinking obedience and trust that a young child must by nature give to its caregiver. Young children, especially very young children, can do nothing except rely on their caregivers to take care of them. The youngest of children, those yet unborn in their mother’s womb, are a perfect example of unthinking obedience and humble trust in their caregiver. They literally provide us with a perfect example of the kind of obedience to the Head that is the evidence that one is a member of the Body joined to the Head. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ used them as examples of the people who are in the kingdom of heaven, as examples of people who make up the Body of Christ.

Next to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, unborn babies are the best example of perfect human obedience to God. Unborn babies do nothing except obey the will of God. Unless you or I or someone like us intervenes and kills them, unborn babies will do nothing except what God wills for them to do. The Lord Jesus Christ makes it clear that only those who obey the Head are members of His Body. Insofar as they are allowed by their mother and others around them, unborn babies obey the Head. That obedience demonstrated by unborn babies proves they are members of the Body of Christ. For this reason, when the Lord said “as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me” He was literally talking about members of His actual physical body.

But we have men who claim to be “Fathers” in the church who are wandering the country, occupying pulpits and seminary classrooms all across this country, who are no more qualified to be a “Father” in the church than the most deviant and derelict reprobate among us. How do I know this? Such “Christian” men who claim to the “Fathers” are surrounded by God’s children being legally slaughtered around them every day that passes and all they talk about is participating in a political process that has proven for over three decades to be designed to be a babysitter while the dismembering of the Body of Christ continues legally unabated in this nation.

My God! How long can this go on? How long can the political process of the United States of America continue to be nothing more than a babysitter designed to give the “Christian” “Pro-life” people the illusion of obedience to God while Satan runs free in this nation, devouring the Lord Jesus Christ in bits and pieces as Satan relentlessly maneuvers mothers to sacrifice their unborn babies as tribute to Satan? How long will we continue to ignore the fact that all we are giving the Lord Jesus Christ is lip service while His priorities and His Law is contravened each day that passes? How long will we allow confused and self-serving men like Father Peter West and the myriad faux-fathers like him to lull us into active collaboration with this political process that has turned us all into impotent accessories to the legalized slaughter of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself?

The blatant hypocrisy we are involved in becomes clearer each day. If the Supreme Court had decreed that any person who felt inconvenienced by a person with a name corresponding to a point on the compass like North, South, East or West could be legally killed with impunity, then you and I both know that Father Peter West and all the other compass point people in this nation would have long ago begun to suggest that the present political process is inadequate to supply the solution they need. And there is no doubt in my mind that men like Father West would be hurrying to teach us about the consequences to the Body of Christ created when the governments of this world legalize the unjust slaughter of compass point people who are doing their best to “hold to the Head.”

Isn’t it time you quit listening to such faux-fathers and started looking for the real fathers in the church. If you ever feel a need to protect the Body of Christ, this is the place to learn how.

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