{"id":249781,"date":"2021-07-23T18:57:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T23:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=249781"},"modified":"2021-07-26T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:18:54","slug":"archbishop-cordileone-pelosi-pro-abortion-devout-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/archbishop-cordileone-pelosi-pro-abortion-devout-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Cordileone hits back at Pelosi: If you’re pro-abortion, you’re not a ‘devout Catholic’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As pro-abortion Members of Congress act to get rid of the Hyde Amendment, a pro-life rider than has prevented federal taxpayers from funding most abortions since 1976, pro-life congressmen have fought back by trying to force a vote to ban taxpayer-funded abortion. However, they have been\u00a0blocked in the U.S. House each time<\/a>. For the first time, Hyde was not included in the president’s\u00a0proposed budget<\/a> \u2014 a decision House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended in her weekly press conference, while referring to herself as a “devout Catholic.”<\/p>\n

Calling it an issue of “health” for American women, Pelosi said that forcing taxpayers to fund abortion has been a priority to “many of us” for a long time, adding:<\/p>\n

As a devout Catholic and mother of five in six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family \u2013 five children in six years almost to the day. But that may not be what we should \u2013 it\u2019s not up to me to dictate that that\u2019s what other people should do, and it\u2019s an issue of fairness and justice for poorer women in our country.<\/em><\/p>\n

But\u00a0Pelosi’s statement is in direct opposition to 2,000 years of doctrine from the Catholic Church, which has consistently held that all<\/em>\u00a0human lives are precious and worth protecting.<\/p>\n

Pelosi’s own archbishop, the Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, responded promptly and directly, telling<\/a> the Catholic News Agency,\u00a0“Let me repeat: no one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it.”<\/p>\n