{"id":85308,"date":"2016-01-15T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=85308"},"modified":"2016-01-15T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:38:55","slug":"naral-criticizes-nancy-pelosi-not-pro-choice-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/naral-criticizes-nancy-pelosi-not-pro-choice-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"NARAL criticizes Nancy Pelosi for not being pro-choice enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Nancy Pelosi has a long and well-documented\u00a0history of fighting for abortion.\u00a0Voting against a partial birth abortion ban, frequently earning\u00a0a 0% rating from the National Right to Life committee,\u00a0and <a href=\"\/news\/nancy-pelosi-accepts-margaret-sanger-award-from-planned-parenthood\/\" target=\"_blank\">receiving the Margaret Sanger Award<\/a> from Planned Parenthood in 2014, it would be very, very difficult to describe Pelosi as anything but extremely pro-abortion.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently, she&#8217;s not pro-abortion enough for NARAL.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In an interview published Wednesday in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollcall.com\/news\/pelosi-im-not-for-abortion-on-demand\/?dcz=\" target=\"_blank\">Roll Call<\/a>, Pelosi criticized pro-life legislators and argued for abortion rights. However, when asked about limits on abortion, Pelosi said twice, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in abortion on demand.&#8221; She also discussed her Catholic faith.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I take great comfort in my faith, come from a very Catholic family, largely pro-life. I\u2019ve had five children and the day my fifth child was born, my oldest turned 6, so I\u2019m with the program in terms of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>NARAL immediately took issue with Pelosi&#8217;s brief departure from\u00a0typical empty pro-abortion talking points. In a statement issued by Sasha Bruce, NARAL&#8217;s senior vice president for campaigns and strategy, NARAL <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/abortion-rights-group-criticizes-pelosi-over-comments\" target=\"_blank\">slammed<\/a> Pelosi for her choice of words.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[Pelosi]\u00a0should stop using twisted GOP talking points about abortion and birth control. We don&#8217;t know women who demand abortion or use abortion as birth control&#8230; at a moment when so much is at stake, her comments are particularly disappointing and ill-advised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know women who demand abortion or use abortion as birth control&#8221;? NARAL is either <a href=\"\/news\/campaign-to-raise-money-to-pay-for-20-week-abortion-reveals-values-of-abortion-industry\/\">very forgetful<\/a> or <a href=\"\/news\/most-late-term-abortions-are-not-done-for-medical-reasons\/\">very dishonest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Pelosi has a long and well-documented\u00a0history of fighting for abortion.\u00a0Voting against a partial birth abortion ban, frequently earning\u00a0a 0% rating from the National Right to Life committee,\u00a0and receiving the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 2014, it would be very, very difficult to describe Pelosi as anything but extremely pro-abortion. But apparently, she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":56183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[7144,19,145,386,131,528,76,6028,7145],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NARAL criticizes Nancy Pelosi for not being pro-choice enough<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nancy Pelosi has a long history of voting for abortion-on-demand, including voting not to ban partial birth abortion. 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