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On Friday, President Joe Biden nominated former Indiana state senator from Joe Donnelly as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.<\/p>\n

Joe Donnelly served as a state senator from 2013 to 2019, and prior to that, was a member of the House starting in 2007. Prior to his political career, Donnelly, a Catholic, taught at the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater. In 2018, he lost his bid for re-election to challenger Mike Braun, a Republican.<\/p>\n

In his statement in response to the nomination, Donnelly said he was looking forward to the work ahead; however, notably absent from his statement was the issue of abortion.<\/p>\n

“I am truly honored to be nominated to this role by President Biden, a man of faith and a friend,” Donnelly said in a statement according to Business Insider<\/a>. “If confirmed, I look forward to working with the Holy See on a wide variety of issues, including human rights, religious freedom, immigration, climate change, peace, and poverty.”<\/p>\n

It is unknown whether Donnelly considers the right to life of the preborn to be among those “human rights.”<\/p>\n

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A \u201cBlue Dog Democrat<\/a>,\u201d Donnelly hasn\u2019t been afraid to break party lines on certain issues, including abortion. However, Donnelly\u2019s pro-life record is decidedly mixed<\/a>. NARAL has alternately rated him 0% in 2016, to 80% in 2018, his most recent score. National Right to Life has also rated him from 83% in 2010 to 20% in 2014, most recently having a score of 40%. His most famous pro-life stands include opposing Obamacare until pro-life protections could be added<\/a>, voting for a ban on abortions committed after 20 weeks<\/a> of pregnancy, and being one of only two members of his party to vote to defund Planned Parenthood after the Center for Medical Progress exposed<\/a> the abortion business\u2019s role in\u00a0trafficking the body parts of aborted babies<\/a>. However, since that time, he has reversed his position<\/a> on this and a few other issues, ultimately opposing efforts to defund the abortion giant.<\/p>\n

Donnelly also defended Biden, who has come under fire for claiming to be a devout, practicing Catholic while espousing radical positions on abortion incompatible with the Catholic faith<\/a>, and which the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/a> have condemned. “Joe Biden lives his faith every day,” Donnelly wrote in an op-ed for Indystar<\/a>. “Every Sunday, he is on his knees attending Mass and praying for his country, his family, and all those in need in our beloved nation. I know this because I know Joe Biden and I come from the same Irish Catholic faith tradition.”<\/p>\n

Donnelly is currently a partner with the Washington, D.C., law firm Akin Gump, and Chairman of the Board at the New York-based Soufan Center, a nonprofit focused on national and global security and foreign policy.<\/p>\n

The Senate must vote to confirm Donnelly\u2019s nomination before he assumes the role of U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.<\/p>\n

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