Late this afternoon President Bush sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stating he will "veto any legsilation that weakens current federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage."
Over the past decades many important pro-life riders have been attached to appropriations bills, ensuring taxpayer funds do not support funding for abortion, embryo destruction, and coercive population programs, and also providing conscience protections, etc.
Democrats are expected to drop all those provisions as well as attach riders to fund the abortion industry in various ways. Planned Parenthood advocacy alerts have stated they want a $100 million increase for Title X, for instance.
President Bush has said not to bother.
His letter follows a letter 155 pro-life congressmen sent him on March 30 encouraging him to take just that stand and promising to vote to sustain any such veto. 146 votes are necessary to sustain a veto.
We'll see if Democrats will waste everyone's time uselessly pandering to pro-aborts. They likely will.
Bravo to pro-life congressmen and President Bush.
