Pro-Life Movement Gaining Ground, Bush Says
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
January 23, 2006(

CNSNews.com) - President Bush Monday addressed pro-life demonstrators on Capitol Hill marking the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, congratulating them on the progress made in the pro-life movement.

In a telephone call from Manhattan, Kan., the president said he and other pro-life supporters believe "that every human life has value, that the strong have a duty to protect the weak, and that the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence apply to everyone, not just to those considered healthy or wanted or convenient."

Bush said one of his first acts as president "was to ban the use of taxpayer money on programs that promote abortion overseas." He expressed pride at signing the partial-birth abortion ban into law, adding that because of pro-life efforts, "infants who are born despite an attempted abortion are now protected by law." Story