FREDO IS PANDERING AGAIN

This time to the Dobson/Falwell/Land wing of the GOP.

Bush Vows to Veto Abortion-Rights Bills

May 5, 3:12 AM (ET)
By JIM ABRAMS

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is warning Democratic leaders that any attempt to weaken federal policies that restrict abortion will be met with a veto.

"The standing pattern is that appropriate conscience protections must be in place for health care entities, and that taxpayer dollars may not be used in coercive or involuntary family planning programs," Bush said in letters dated Thursday.

"I will veto any legislation that weakens current federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage," he wrote.

Bush has already threatened to veto legislation, passed by the House and Senate in different forms this year, that would ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research. He killed a similar stem cell bill last year in the first veto of his presidency.