Posted on 05/04/2022 5:57:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Speaker Nancy Pelosi went to the House floor Sept. 24, 2021, to express her support for a bill that would enshrine a "right" to abortion in federal law.
"For years, radical restrictions on women's reproductive health freedoms have been pushed across the nation, with 2021 on track to be the worst legislative year for women's health rights," Pelosi said.
"I come to this as a Catholic and a mother of five, in 6 years and 1 week, and the joy that all that meant to us," she explained.
Under Pelosi's leadership, the House then voted 218 to 211 to pass the Women's Health Protection Act. It would trump state laws restricting abortion -- even if Roe v. Wade were overturned.
"This bill prohibits governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, abortion services," says its official summary.
The text of the bill itself refers to "a person's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy."
No House Republican voted for it. Only one House Democrat voted against it.
It was then blocked in the Senate, when only 46 members (of the 60 needed) voted to end debate on the bill and bring it up for a vote.
Pelosi, however, has not given up on it.
On March 22, almost four months after the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments over a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, Pelosi did an on-stage interview at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. Mark Updegrove, president of the LBJ Foundation, was the moderator.
"What is the future of Roe v. Wade, and what does more restrictive abortion mean to the future of our country?" Updegrove asked Pelosi, according to a video of the exchange posted on YouTube by the speaker's office.
"Well, let me just say we passed in the House...the codification of Roe v. Wade," said Pelosi. "That was very important for us to do. Of course, we haven't passed it in the Senate, but we never give up in that regard because we do think that the codification of Roe v. Wade would be really important protection against the court."
Pelosi then said: "I am a devout Catholic ... Mother of five children in six years and one week."
"This is a precedent of the court," she said. "It should be upheld by the court."
"This really gets me burned up, in case you didn't notice," she went on to say, "because, again, I'm very Catholic, devout, practicing, all of that. They would like to throw me out, but I am not going -- because I don't want to make their day. But this is fundamental to respect. Respect for women, and their judgement about their lives, the timing and size of the family."
"We have to make this fight. This is fundamental," she said.
What is the fundamental point the Catholic Church makes about abortion?
In 1995, St. John Paul II published the encyclical letter "Evangelium Vitae" -- the Gospel of Life.
He rejected the use of euphemisms in describing the killing of an unborn child.
"Especially in the case of abortion there is widespread use of ambiguous terminology, such as 'interruption of pregnancy,' which tends to hide abortion's true nature and to attenuate its seriousness in public opinion," he wrote. "Perhaps this linguistic phenomenon is itself a symptom of uneasiness of conscience.
"But," he continued, "no word has the power to change the reality of things: procured abortion is the deliberate and direct killing, by whatever means it is carried out, of a human being in the initial phase of his or her existence, extending from conception to birth."
St. John Paul II then flatly stated that abortion is murder.
"The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved," he wrote. "The one eliminated is a human being at the very beginning of life. No one more absolutely innocent could be imagined. In no way could this human being ever be considered an aggressor, much less an unjust aggressor!"
Politico this week published the leaked draft of the Supreme Court's opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health case, which was written by Justice Samuel Alito.
If this draft becomes the final opinion actually delivered by the court, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey will be overturned, and the states will reclaim the authority to restrict and prohibit abortion.
"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," says the draft.
"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," it says. "Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences."
"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," it says.
Pelosi immediately released a statement condemning the court's apparent intention to overturn Roe -- and suggesting that aborting a child is part of "the fundamental human right to reproductive care."
"Democrats believe that every woman everywhere has the fundamental human right to reproductive care, one that is not limited by background, income or zip code," said Pelosi. "Her health decisions, including whether or not to terminate a pregnancy, belong to her."
Overturning past decisions that declared the killing of unborn babies a right, Pelosi argued, would "erode the legitimacy" of the court.
"In brazenly ignoring 50 years of its own precedent, the United States Constitution and the will of the American people, this draft ruling would seriously erode the legitimacy of the Supreme Court in the eyes of the American people," she said. "Upholding the rule of law and maintaining the faith of the people require that the Court allow Roe to remain the law of the land."
Who is correct about abortion? The Catholic Church, which calls it murder? Or Nancy Pelosi, who calls it a right?
The church is right. Pelosi is wrong.
She a stinkin walking corpse. Evil.
This is what happens when weaklings like the fake Pope refuse to stand against perversion and evil 🤪
If this is what it means to be a Catholic, commend me to the antichrist.
They can do whatever they want.
If I read the ruling correctly, it implicitly states that the constitution did not specifically grant this right to the fed.
It is therefore reserved for the states and the people, respectively.
The fed does not the authority to regulate this.
Period.
It will not survive appeal
Be seeing you.....
Number 6
I would love to be a fly on the wall on Judgement Day when all the cheerleaders for the murder of innocent babies meet God.
Practicing Catholic In Good Standing Pelosi Defends What the Church Correctly Calls MurderIf she really is a Catholic she would be against abortion/murder/infanticide.
If the Church really stood for life, Pelosi would be excommunicated, or at a bare minimum, denied Communion.
It's well past time for someone to 'person up' and do the right thing.
“Just like the definition of the word Vaccine was redefined”
I know that I’ll start to look for older dictionaries at thrift shops and yard sales. Older printed Encyclopedias would be interesting, too. The libs are re-defining everything now and it would be good to have documentation of what was (and still is) true.
She is no Catholic. Catholic teaching is clear.
The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a grave evil that destroys a human person with inherent dignity and worth.
“Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception,” the catechism of the Catholic Church reads. “From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person — among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.”
“If the Church really stood for life, Pelosi would be excommunicated...”
If the Church really stood for life, the Church would formalize by pronouncement what Pelosi, Biden, and others have accomplished by their own deeds.
It’s the vile, demonic Botoxian....
A empty shell of what was once a human female that sold it’s soul to the devil for wealth, fame, power....not to mention vodka & ice cream.
Fully demon-possessed, it does a great work for its Big Daddy to maintain its gain per the original “bargain”. But it won’t be long before Big Daddy shows up to claim his side of the original “bargain”...it’s coming.
Good Catholics Pelosi and Biden need to actually READ the Catechism of the Catholic Faith. I believe the Church says Abortion is Immoral. Seems Clear to me.
Directly from the Catechism: (if anybody cares)
Abortion
2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.
From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.71
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.72
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.73
2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.
This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.
Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.74
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves.
Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.75
2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense.
The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life.
“A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,”76 “by the very commission of the offense,”77 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.78
The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy.
Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.
2273 The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation:
“The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority.
These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin.
Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being’s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death.”79
“The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law.
When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined....
As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child’s rights.”80
2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.
Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, “if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual....
It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence.”81
2275 “One must hold as licit procedures carried out on the human embryo which respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but are directed toward its healing the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival.”82
“It is immoral to produce human embryos intended for exploitation as disposable biological material.”83
“Certain attempts to influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic but are aimed at producing human beings selected according to sex or other predetermined qualities.
Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and his integrity and identity”84 which are unique and unrepeatable.
References: 71 Cf. CDF, Donum vitae I, 1., 72 Jer 1:5; cf. Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-11., 73 Ps 139:15., 74 Didache 2, 2: SCh 248, 148; cf. Ep. Barnabae 19, 5: PG 2, 777; Ad Diognetum 5, 6: PG 2, 1173; Tertullian, Apol. 9: PL 1, 319-320., 75 GS 51 # 3., 76 CIC, can. 1398., 77 CIC, can. 1314., 78 Cf. CIC, cann. 1323-1324., 79 CDF, Donum vitae III., 80 CDF, Donum vitae III., 81 CDF, Donum vitae I, 2., 82 CDF, Donum vitae I, 3., 83 CDF, Donum vitae I, 5., 84 CDF, Donum vitae I, 6.
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