Colorado Springs, Colo. -- Focus on the Family Action founder and chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., issued the following statement in response to President Bush's letter to the congressional Democratic Leadership vowing to "veto any legislation that weakens current Federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage":
"President Bush is not the first man to occupy the Oval Office who talked about valuing preborn life, but no administration has backed up those words with as much consistent policy support as his has. This president has proven himself not just a friend to the pro-life movement, but a protector of millions of innocent lives.
"This letter demonstrates the depth of his core conviction that all human life, at every stage of development, is sacred. His stance is a shot across the bow to congressional liberals who think their path to forcing taxpayers to fund abortion and destructive embryonic stem-cell research is now unimpeded since they are in the majority. When it comes to any law that would endanger a human life, President Bush has made it clear: the buck will stop with him."
