Preisdent Bush’s new book Decision Points is coming out this week. He chronicles a lot of events that shaped his life but one of them is down right disturbing. President Bush opposed abortion, but in the book he shared that as a teenager his mother suffered a miscarriage and she placed the fetus in a jar to take to the hospital with her, and seeing this fetus helped solidify his opposition to abortion. What???? Please tell me why would a mother show this to one of her children? To me this borders on child abuse. To place that kind of indeligble imprint in the mind of your child is simply cruel. There was nothing edifying about this act.
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I haven’t read the book yet, so I’ll have to go just on what you said. For a young child that would be wrong, but if he was a teenager, I do not consider what she did to be abusive. (How many teen moms do we have running around here?) This is real world. Shielding him from a serious event in the family would be counterproductive. If a teenager can go to an open casket funeral, why can’t they see their unborn brother or sister? Clearly this had a lasting effect on him, and I think that was the intent.