First of all, lemme just say that this headline kinda cracked me up :

Bush Signs Fetus Rights Legislation

Are fetuses allowed to vote now or bring lawsuits? (which is especially ironic coming from the guy who stole an election and keeps advocating “tort reform”) The way things are going in this administration, eventually people are gonna have more rights in the womb than out of it.

Okay, joking aside, the article has a good rundown of Bush’s abortion record :

Bush has taken several actions that have pleased anti-abortion advocates.

As one of the first acts of his presidency, he reinstated the “Mexico City policy” that bars U.S. money from international groups that support abortion, even with their own money, through direct services, counseling or lobbying activities.

He has signed legislation that bans certain late-term abortions and that amends legal definitions of “person,” “human being,” “child” and “individual” to include any fetus that survives an abortion.

He has increased federal support for abstinence education, adoption and crisis pregnancy programs, placed severe restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research to only a few existing cell lines and extended state health coverage to “unborn children.”

The measure Bush signed Thursday is limited in scope, applying only to harm to a fetus while a federal crime, such as a terrorist attack or drug-related shooting, is being committed against the pregnant mother. The legislation defines a potential victim as “a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.”

But the most telling part of the article is this :

Bush has said he doesn’t believe the country is ready to completely ban abortions; he opposes them except in cases of rape or incest or when pregnancy endangers a woman’s life. That position has become a standard line in most of his speeches.

Granted, this isn’t a direct quote and it’s got the requisite “rape or incest” line, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that banning all forms of abortion is the eventual goal of the right wing. Y’see? The country isn’t ready to ban abortion yet.