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George Bush: 'Barbara Bush Showed Me a Fetus in a Jar'

by Amy Judd | November 8, 2010 at 03:29 pm

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Bush Abortion Stance Confirmation During Interview With Matt Lauer That Airs Tonight

Lauer's interview with former President George Bush talks about his new book Decision Points, and he discusses one section where he reveals the moment his pro-life stance solidified.

His mother Barbara Bush suffered a miscarriage when George Bush was a teenager and he recounts the moment that she showed him the fetus that she had stored in a jar.

"There's no question that affected me, a philosophy that we should respect life," said the former president, who had to drive his distraught mother to the hospital at the time.

She had put the fetus in the jar to take to the hospital and Bush says he never expected to see the remains of a human life, "a little brother or a sister" as he told Lauer. Barbara Bush gave her son permission to recount the story in his new book.

But "the purpose of the story wasn't to try show the evolution of a pro-life point of view," Bush insisted to Lauer.

"It was really to show how my mom and I developed a relationship."

His book is released tomorrow and no doubt will share many more moments from the former President's life.

In the interview with Lauer, he does not criticize President Obama, only saying that he "has plenty of critics - and I'm not going to be one."

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master_jim2008

at 15:52 on November 8th, 2010

He IS a weirdo and the whole family are very sick individuals. The Bush dynasty is also one of America's worst enemies.

t k kidwai

at 17:11 on November 8th, 2010

@master-jim2008.This is the charm of democracy(manipulated and controlled by oligarchs) that father and son,whose legitimate place was a lunatic asylum were in Oval office.

YankeeJim

at 16:08 on November 8th, 2010

That's your sister, George. That's your momma on the oatmeal box.

t k kidwai

at 17:08 on November 8th, 2010

The teenager's conversion to pro-life viewpoint didn't last after stealing elections.Millions and millions were slaughtered by the worst of hypocrates.A pathalogical lier wants us convinced that he cares too much for life.Who would believe members of a barbarian family,the Bush family.

Voters (not verified)

at 17:16 on November 8th, 2010

George Bush wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. More importantly though, what does that say about the American voters who elected him twice_to be President of the United States. They had intelligence and depth both times in Gore and Kerry, yet chose Bush. Now they throw out democracts blaming them for the mess left by republicans. Who are the fools ?

hussain

at 22:06 on November 8th, 2010

"a philosophy that we should respect life" but only of Bush and co -- who butchered millions of innocent people in many parts of the globe! What a strange way of respecting life!