Why does it matter what a President's opinion on Abortion is?

Question

Bush never touhed the Abortion issue while in the white house, so why does it matter?
Bush didn't help Social Security either, but that was a big issue too.

Answer 1

politicians talk about abortion when they don't want to address our nations major problems. The s.o.s. trust fund has been in the red since 1965after LBJ started stealing the funds , the government at this time owe the sos trust over 2$ trillion

Answer 2

Bush picked anti-abortion Supreme court justices. The Supreme Court is the ultimate authority in the USA and serve for life.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a law that banned a type of late-term abortion, a ruling that could portend enormous social, legal and political implications for the divisive issue.

The sharply divided 5-4 ruling could prove historic. It sends a possible signal of the court's willingness, under Chief Justice John Roberts, to someday revisit the basic right to abortion guaranteed in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case.

President Bush, who signed the law in 2003 and appointed two of the justices who upheld it, said the prohibition "represents a commitment to building a culture of life in America."

This was the first time the high court had heard a major abortion case in six years, and since then, its makeup has changed, with Roberts and Alito now on board.

Their presence on the bench provided the solid conservative majority needed to allow the federal ban to go into effect, with Kennedy providing the key fifth vote for a majority.

Alito replaced Sandra Day O'Connor, a key abortion rights supporter over her quarter century on the bench.

Three federal appeals courts had ruled against the government, saying the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 is unconstitutional because it does not provide a "health exception" for pregnant women facing a medical emergency. The outcome of this latest challenge before the court's new ideological makeup could turn on the legal weight given past rulings on the health exception.

What does this mean to you? If your wife or sister is in their second term and it's found that the fetus is dead, she must carry the dead fetus to term. Or, if the fetus is life-threatening to your wife or sister, they-or you- cannot do anything about it.

Answer 3

Because the President picks the supreme court and the battle over abortion is being waged in that court. So the President's position on this issue is extremely important.

Answer 4

because a president will tend to select supreme court judges that agree with him/her on the subject, and the supreme court gets to decide if roe v wade stays intact, or gets overturned

but abortion is definitely one of those "distraction issues"....politicians tend to use that issue to get votes, but personally I don't think many republican politicians really want to see roe v wade overturned, because they are aware of the huge backlash that would occur against their party

Bush always talked about how he was pro-life, yet he admitted he didn't even discuss the issue of abortion with people he was considering nominating

Answer 5

Because a president picks Supreme Court nominees.

Answer 6

I guess what Ron Paul is saying... THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T HERE TO DECIDE ALL THESE THINGS.... and that's why there's controversy.

The government isn't here to support of from cradle to grave, and they aren't there to rule the world.

We need a smaller government, a better dollar, no deficit, and less taxes (a lot less).

If we INSIST on it being a government decision... than let it be a state decision, and let states fight within themselves for rights, and not the nation ripping each other apart on a daily basis.

UNITY THROUGH THE STATES!!!!

DOWN WITH A FEDERAL EMPIRE!!!

Answer 7

It is because the people want to know that if congress passes legislation for or against a cause on their behalf that the president won't veto it.

Answer 8

not to me , because it should be left up to each individual state to decide whats best for them.

so how they feel about states rights is more important to me , than how they personally feel about abortion

when it is left to the states you don't have to worry about the supreme court , for all the people above me.

Middlecl. get real no one would make you carry a dead fetus in your body. its unhealthy. they are talking about viable fetuses. stop with the half truths and scare tactics.

Answer 9

No. Bush put everything into place to overturn Roe V. Wade and yet it remains.