Some people give lame reasons to be pro-life, but George W. Bush really has a pretty good excuse. While on his current "Say Anything To Get People To Buy My Book Nobody Would Read Otherwise" tour, Bush revealed to Matt Lauer the reason he dislikes abortion: His mother had a miscarriage when he was a teenager and liked to parade around her dead offspring in a jar. Holy hell, this family. "Junior, please pass sister fetus jar the mashed potatoes." "Junior, please drive your brother the fetus jar to school." "Junior, doesn't your sister the fetus jar look beautiful in her prom dress? Pull her out of the goo and pin that corsage on her, wouldn't you? Then give her a kiss goodbye. She'd best be going or she'll be late!"

"She said to her teenage kid, 'Here's the fetus,' " the shockingly candid Bush told NBC's Matt Lauer, gesturing as if he were holding the jar during the TV chat, a DVD of which The Post exclusively obtained.

"There's no question that affected me, a philosophy that we should respect life," said the former president [...]

But "the purpose of the story wasn't to try show the evolution of a pro-life point of view," Bush insisted to Lauer.

It was to scare children on Halloween?

"It was really to show how my mom and I developed a relationship."

Oh Lord, did the two of them have sex? This almost excuses the whole torture thing. [NYP]