It seems to me that this was case in which people were trading money for a service and everyone came out a winner. George W. Bush doesn't like it. Because he's without a spine, without a mandate, and without principals. That ain't compassionate and it's hardly conservative. It's the law, stupid.
Bad laws are ones that turn good people into criminals.
America, I'm sad to say, has some pretty bad laws. Laws against immigration are bad. And anything that makes an act of kindness, decency and true compassion into a crime is a stupid, iniquitous, vile law that should be broken at every opportunity. Let us all extend our hands to our abused, impoverished brothers and sisters from other countries. The press corps is a famously incestuous circle.