Original sentence: Bush is pro-life; his aim, in his words, is to "promote a culture of life.Bush's political ideology is generally referred to as conservative or compassionate conservative, the latter being a term he has used to describe himself; conservatives have criticized Bush for his willingness to incur large budget deficits
Edited sentence: "  This phrase was adopted from a speech given by the late Pope John Paul II, an outspoken critic of Bush's foreign policy.Also at issue is his use of the term "compassionate" to describe his brand of conservatism, given his blatant disregard for dissenting opinions and/or the rights of women and religious minorities.Bush is "pro-life"; his aim, in his words, is to "promote a culture of life.Bush's political ideology is generally referred to as conservative or "compassionate conservative", the latter being a term he has used to describe himself.Conservatives have criticized Bush for his willingness to incur large budget deficits and for his systematic centralization of a large federal government specifically designed to exert a controlling influence over individual freedoms.Many have stated that Bush's "culture of life" declaration seems at odds with his popular cowboy-style brand of "justice" which favors state-sanctioned execution of the mental retardation and his repeated endorsements of the indiscriminate torture and murder of prisoners and political dissenters (see Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse)