Bush -- Sight of Mother's Miscarriage Inspired Pro-Life Stance

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:11am

After suffering a miscarriage, Mrs. Bush saved the fetus, put it in a jar, and had her son George W. drive her to the hospital. On the way, she showed her son the contents of the jar. And George W. Bush became a pro-lifer.

This is just so creepy on so many levels. Beyond the basic irony of the guy getting all pro-life about protecting the unborn while showing such callous disregard for the fate of living adults, I mean.

Ah, well. Not my problem. And anyway, there's a silver lining to this -- there's one less Bush in the world.


You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up----

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:14am

Does anyone remember in Mary Tyler Moore's book where she talks about miscarrying and how her cat (or dog?) grabbed the fetus off the bathroom floor and tried to eat it?

[Kad]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:27am

Well this explains a lot.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:28am

There is an unbelievable element to this story (pretty sure both elder Bushes were pro-choice though HW changed his stance when he had to run for President) that is pretty David Lynchian. It makes no sense but I guess he was desperately going down the barrel of what made him who he is, and that story sounds like the stuff of nightmares.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:28am

Also, I kind of don't believe this story. It fits the nice narrative of how Bush learned be an advocate for a bunch of dividing cellsthe "unborn," but this would have been what - 1960ish? It was another good ten years before the fetishization of the fetus, right? Maybe the Bushes were just ahead of the pack?

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:41am

Phyllis, Poppy & Babs were (are?) nuts. I can totally see her carting around a jar of Fetus just for kicks. There are some great stories about bizarre behavior all through-out Georgie's formative years. They lost a daughter when she was 7 and even good friends found it bizarre that they didn't mourn or acknowledge it in any way.
Nuttier than a squirrel turd, they are.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:49am

I wonder where she found a jar big enough for a seven-year-old.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:52am

"They lost a daughter when she was 7."

Two! Two less Bushes in the world!! The news only gets better!!

Maybe there's something to this optimism stuff after all!

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 11:01am

In a jar? REALLY? Is this one of those dry drunk stories that become embellished over time in order to create the world necessary so they don't take another drink? I mean. A JAR????

I'm surprised the story doesn't end with Marty Feldman limping in an stealing it.

[Weez]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 11:15am

I cry bulls**t. Not least because "pro-life" is an offensive and inaccurate term.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 11:24am

"I wonder where she found a jar big enough for a seven-year-old."

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:16pm

"George, put that lid back on the jar! GEORGE stop poking your sister! GEORGE stop it now you are getting all over your new shirt! George, no I do NOT want to smell your finger!"

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:21pm

"It was all goopy and covered with sludge, so I called him Goopy. Goopy and I shared a bedroom until my junior year of high school, when I had to sell him to get money for dope."

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:28pm

They are not crazy. Just some of the coldest people that ever lived.

Anyone watch Matt Lauer's laughably softball interview last night? The man STILL has done no reflecting on his presidency. Not at all.

This is a family of sociopaths. Those two kids who died had it lucky.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:28pm

"And that little child in the jar grew up to be Karl Rove. And now you know the Ressssst of the Story."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:29pm

Was it a boy or a girl? Surely they must know.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:52pm

It was hard to tell.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:53pm

That's not Goopy, that's Robin's baby! Not dead Robin Bush, though.

Posted: 11/9/10 at 12:55pm

I say crazy, you say sociopaths. Tomato, Tomahto....

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 1:10pm

It makes me wonder if the sight of George Jr. inspired his mother's miscarriage.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 1:29pm

OMG, I'm rolling! You guys are so funny........

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:09pm

"Oh, George. George, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, George. Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, George! I wouldn't bring another one of you sons into this world! It was an abortion, George! It was a son! A son! And I had it killed because this must all end!

I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, George... no way you could ever forgive me not with this Republican thing that's been going on for 200 years."

Updated On: 11/9/10 at 02:09 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:22pm

A little info, because I think GWB is a pathological liar: I found an article from 1999 that recounts the events of his mother's miscarriage in a much more mundane manner. It's a long article, so I'm pasting the relevant portion below. That said, his mother was pro-choice, as was GHWB before he needed to conform to the neocon platform. Also, a claification: GWB was seven when his sister died. She was three, and died of leukemia.

Here's the excerpt from the article:

Once, in the mid-1960s in Houston, when his father was out of town, he drove his mother to the hospital when she was having a miscarriage.

Halfway there, Barbara Bush told her son, "I don't think I'll be able to get out of the car."

"I'll take you to the emergency room, don't worry," her son assured her.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:24pm

Here's the link, search on this page and you'll find the story.

Updated On: 11/9/10 at 02:24 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:31pm

That is so fascinating--and so f*cked up.