NPR has a story today, Bush's Last-Minute 'Conscience' Rules Cause Furor. It states, "Health care workers, hospitals and even entire insurance companies could decline to perform, refer or pay for abortion or any other health care practice that violates a 'religious belief or moral conviction' under new rules issued by the outgoing Bush administration."
Now that's truly pro-choice: allowing health care practitioners to decide for themselves if they want to perform or recommend an abortion. But, for some reason, those who claim to wear the mantle of "choice" do not agree with this.
I'm actually liking Bush's last-minute decisions. He's allowing drilling in Utah. "Oh, but it's raping our environment!" Please. Environmentalists say the same about drilling in ANWR, even though that would involve less than 1% of the wildlife refuge.
Bush is also rolling back some regulations. I'm not against all regulations, but it would be nice to lessen the burden of the unnecessary ones.
And here's the good part: Obama won't be able to overturn all of this. Or he'll have to make an actual effort if he wants to do so.
George W. Bush: leaving his mark before he goes.