Posted on 06/13/2013 2:23:28 PM PDT by NYer
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In response to a question today from a reporter about a late-term abortion ban that is being proposed in Congress, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that the issue of late-term abortion is "sacred ground" for her.
"As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this," Pelosi said. "This shouldn't have anything to do with politics."
A Weekly Standard reporter had pointed out that the bill was proposed by legislators in response to the horrific case of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was found guilty of murder for "snipping" the spinal cords of three babies born alive.
"They argue that there really isn't much of a moral difference between what someone like Dr. Gosnell did to infants born at 23, 24, 25 weeks into pregnancy, and what can happen [legally] at a clinic down the road in Maryland where a doctor says he'll perform an elective abortions 28 weeks into pregnancy," asked the reporter. "So, the question I have for you is what is the moral difference between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth?"
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Pelosi responded by saying that what Gosnell did was "reprehensible," but then said that the bill is also "reprehensible," suggesting that it shows "disrespect" to "a judgment a woman makes about her reproductive health."
The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks based upon evidence that by that age the unborn child can feel the pain of the brutal procedure, which in some cases involves dismemberment while the baby is still alive.
The reporter continued to push Pelosi, asking her what the difference was between a 26 week abortion, and killing the baby after birth.
Pelosi responded that "this is not the issue" and suggested that the proposed bill would say that "there's no abortion in our country."
When the reporter tried once again to get Pelosi to answer the question, she shot back, "I'm not going to have this conversation with you, because you obviously have an agenda. You're not interested in having an answer."
That was when she also made the remark about the issue being "sacred ground."
The Weekly Standard reporter complained: "It was a simple question. You didn't answer."
Pelosi, despite being one of the most pro-abortion legislators in Congress, has repeatedly said that she is a devout Catholic, and has defended her pro-abortion views in light of her faith.
Pelosi told Newsweek's Eleanor Clift in 2010 that she had "some concerns" about the Catholic Church's positions on abortion and homosexuality.
"I am a practicing Catholic, although they're probably not too happy about that. But it is my faith," said the former Speaker. "I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with, a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. And that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will."
The Congresswoman has been publicly rebuked by numerous Catholic bishops over her position on moral issues.
You cannot serve two masters, ping!
Nancy Pelosi and the DemoNuts support all forms of Population Control
SJB’s 2 simple rules:
1) Ya can’t fix stupid.
2) Ya can’t con God.
Human sacrifice is sacred? Thanks for confirming your debauched soul and pea brain.
This psycho is mentally incompetent and a danger to others, she needs to be confined.
I’d bet her “sacred ground” would change if the government was suggesting banning botox injections.
Yes they do. Abortion, homosexuality, their agenda is obsessed with population control. And they are evil.
Somebody help me here. Is what she said sacrilege or blasphemy?
Recall that Ms. Pelosi took it upon herself to say that the Pope is wrong on abortion and birth control.
She can dissent from the Catholic Church but she can no longer call herself Catholic when she attempts to overrule Church teachings.
Catholic bishops have a historic and sacred duty to formally excommunicate people who are heretics or those in clear, persistent, remorseless, and public violation of church law. The failure to formally excommunicate pro abortion Catholic politicians like Pelosi has weakened the moral standing of the Church and confused the faithful.
Yeah but can someone please tell me how such an obviously two-faced, immoral liar - such a plainly hypocritical person, no matter which way she leans - comes within a hair’s width of the Presidency? How could even her own constituents support her, unless they were fundamentally led by dark forces and plagued with a completely warped... Notion... Of character and right and wrong and identity and ...
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Who is her Bishop and why hasn’t she been excommunicated?
Now this freak asserts that murdering a child at 7 months gestation is some sort of sacrosanct right?
Oddly, I don't think most people were ever included in that debate. And I'm pretty sure I know what the vast majority would say about it.
I believe Jesus Christ would disagree.
Her statement would lean in the direction of sacrilege by demeaning (insulting) the term “sacred ground”. This stupid statement doesn’t rise to that level, of course.
That said, she should have been excommunicated long ago for her actions relating to abortion, which have been many and varied.
The rule of law is breaking down in all areas, it would seem.
In Nancy Pelosi’s version of the Catholic faith, abortion is the Eighth Sacrament.
Bwahahahahahahaha, Oh Crap, that’s funny.
Sacred Ground to Nancy Pelosi,Bwahahahahahahha
“As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this,” Pelosi said. “This shouldn’t have anything to do with politics.”
This woman is funnier than Leno. She $hit all over that Sacred Ground years ago.
Bishops? Heck! Come on Pope! Get on her case!
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