

SAN FRANCISCO — On March 27, Planned Parenthood will bestow its highest honor on Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., minority leader in the House of Representatives and a self-identifying Catholic. The Margaret Sanger Award, named for the organization’s founder, who was a known proponent of eugenics, will recognize Pelosi for her legacy of “excellence and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement.”
The move will revive questions from Catholics and pro-life activists who have pressed Church leaders in the United States to direct the congresswoman to refrain from receiving the Eucharist due to her public acceptance of what the Church calls intrinsic evil. And the ensuing debate will likely draw attention to Pelosi’s repeated and often contradictory references to her faith while defending or advancing her position on controversial legislation.
“Abortion and Catholicism never go together. When a national leader, such as Speaker Pelosi, conflates the two, it, unfortunately, can lead other Catholics — who believe there is no issue with pro-abortion beliefs and the practice of their Catholic faith — to miss the opportunity to reconcile their views with Church teaching,” Scot Landry, the director of Catholic Voices USA, told the Register.
“That is sad, a tremendous scandal in our Church and a disservice to all those who follow her example.”
In 2013, Cardinal Raymond Burke, who heads the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, stated in a published interview that Canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law “must be applied” to determine whether Pelosi should receive the Eucharist.
“This is a person who, obstinately, after repeated admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of procured abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic,” said Cardinal Burke.
Brought Up Catholic
Over the years, Pelosi has occasionally acknowledged her disagreement with Church leaders.
“I have some concerns about the Church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose,” she said during a 2009 interview, where she confirmed past meetings with “her archbishop in San Francisco” to address her views.
“I practically mourn the 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 responsibility to answer for our actions,” she said, adding that “women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will.”
Pelosi has not discussed how she came to believe that “free will” trumped Catholic teaching on a grave moral issue. Meetings with Church leaders, including a 2009 visit with then-Pope Benedict XVI, who outlined natural-law precepts, appear to have had little impact.
She grew up in a political home — her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., served as both a Democratic U.S. congressman and the mayor of Baltimore. Pelosi graduated in 1962 from Trinity College, a Washington-based Catholic college for women.
Mary Meehan, a pro-life writer, attended Trinity College when Pelosi was there.
“Trinity was then a fairly conservative college," Meehan told the Register. "But I don’t recall any mention of abortion in our theology classes. I don’t think students were ready to meet that issue," when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Roe v. Wade decision about a decade later.
“Pelosi and many other politicians either are not personally opposed to abortion or, if personally pro-life, have a long and deeply ingrained habit of separating personal convictions from a contradictory public position,” said Meehan.
The future speaker of the House married Paul Pelosi, a California native, and the couple raised five children. For a quarter of a century, she has represented California’s 12th District in the House of Representatives, including much of San Francisco.
In 2007, Pelosi made history when she became the first woman to serve as the speaker of the House. And her website celebrates her work “strengthening America’s middle class through job creation, reforming the political system to create clean campaigns and fair elections, enacting comprehensive immigration reform and ensuring safety in America’s communities, neighborhoods and schools.”
Abortion Legacy
Pelosi’s tireless advocacy for abortion rights and her more recent efforts to defend the controversial Health and Human Services contraception mandate may not get top billing in her official biography, but are no less central to her legacy on Capitol Hill.
“As a Democratic leader, Pelosi often has successfully pressured other Democratic lawmakers to oppose protections for unborn children,” Doug Johnson, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, told the Register.
In 2009, when the newly elected President Barack Obama sought to pass his signature health-reform legislation, Speaker Pelosi helped overcome resistance from pro-life House Democrats, who feared that provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) might permit federal subsidies for elective abortions.
Later, in 2012, when the U.S. bishops and other faith leaders called for a broad religious exemption to the HHS contraception mandate authorized under the ACA, Pelosi organized a hearing in the House for Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who would emerge as an icon for so-called reproductive rights during the 2012 election year. Pelosi’s efforts would help launch the Democrats’ “war on women” campaign that reframed the U.S. bishops’ concerns about the HHS mandate as an attack on women’s access to contraception and abortion.
Weeks after a contentious February 2012 House hearing on free-exercise issues posed by the HHS mandate, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reported that it had raised “$1.1 million from its ‘War on Women’ campaign.”
Contradicting the Faith
Given Pelosi’s Catholic affiliation, some co-religionists might have expected her to help broker a robust exemption to the HHS mandate and thus calm the anxiety of Catholic charities that used precious time and resources to challenge the law in court and develop contingency plans if they failed to obtain a reprieve.
But while Pelosi has spoken out on human rights and religious persecution abroad, she has been skeptical of free-exercise claims raised by the U.S. bishops and other Christian groups who seek protections in the face of shifting cultural norms.
In 2011, as House Republicans prepared to vote on a bill that offered conscience protections for health-care providers who opposed abortion, Pelosi went on the attack.
“When the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor and health-care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed. It’s just appalling,” she charged.
Later, Pelosi told The Washington Post, “I’m a devout Catholic, and I honor my faith and love it ... but they have this conscience thing’’ — an apparent reference to the Church’s objection to being forced to pay for services that violate moral and religious convictions.
Last June, when the grisly murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell was in the news, a reporter asked Pelosi to explain the difference between late-term abortions and the unlawful killing of infants who had survived abortions performed by Gosnell.
Pelosi called Gosnell’s actions, which resulted in multiple murder convictions, “reprehensible,” but she did not address the morality of late-term abortions. Instead, she referenced her religion.
“As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this,” Pelosi responded, without explaining the connection between her cradle faith and the issue at hand. “This shouldn’t have anything to do with politics.”
Counterattack Coming
Democrat Party leaders have already signaled their plans to revive the war-on-women campaign for the midterm election cycle and make it even more central to their strategy.
That means the Democrat House leader will help put pro-life candidates and others who support religious freedom on the defensive.
But pro-life activists on Capitol Hill and in state battles are working hard to counter that strategy, and some argue that the Gosnell trial and its power to reshape national views about late-term abortions could make a difference.
The NRLC’s Johnson noted, “While Pelosi is quick to throw around rhetoric about a ‘war’ on women, she is always extremely evasive on the subject of late abortion.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a political advocacy group that backs pro-life candidates for national office, said they were developing a strategy to counter the argument of Pelosi and other abortion-rights advocates: that “women can’t be free unless they have the right to kill their children.”
“Margaret Sanger and Pelosi have a merciless legacy couched in the language of women’s rights,” said Dannenfelser, because “mercy is only reserved for the privileged and planned and perfect.”
Added Dannenfelser, “There is a different model articulated by pro-life candidates: We accept all the children in our lives. We do not decide who is worthy or whether they may be an obstacle to our success.”
Joan Frawley Desmond is the Register’s senior editor.
Google the name Gloria Polo from Brazil. She was very pro-choice. But not a public figure like Pelosi.
Yes, stop supporting candidates who are “pro-Choice” and try to make a difference at the ballot box.
Notre Dame gave Abortion’s Champion barak obama its highest honor so why are we surprised about this?
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Ms. Pelosi is only catholic when it is convenient for her which mean hardly ever. She is one of my 50 worst politicians ever. She is just behind Richard Nixon and Just ahead of the so-called President of the US Barrack Obama. Ms. Pelosi need to get back to her roots if she has any in the Catholic Church but I don’t see that happen any time soon.
Scandal. Do you applaud it? If you do not applaud it, are you out of reach of the needs of our times? The question becomes, “Are you a Catholic, or are you not a Catholic?” Pelosi is likely smiling like a cheshire cat, bowing with gratitude for the political kudos she will receive. But - What does it profit a man (or woman) if she gains the whole world and loses her immortal soul? The saving factor is that as long as she still lives,she can retract and repent. Let’s pray for her and all those she currently infects with hypocrisy and scandal.
I think that the word ‘abortion’ has lost strength…if one is ‘pro-choice’ one is really anti-life and pro-death. And Nancy Pelosi and Andrew Cuomo and other prominent Catholics do not only ‘accept’ the mass murder of innocent human beings, they rabidly promote this killing with no limits - evil generates evil and as Mother Theresa of Calcutta said: “If we would kill the baby in the womb, what would we not do?” Will the next step be to kill the toddler who has become handicapped? Some countries have already legalized euthanasia for children…next it will be the elderly - the goal is to eliminate those who cannot contribute to society in any meaningful way - and ‘meaningful’ will be determined by those who make the laws. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, wanted to eliminate blacks and Hispanics and the mentally challenged - she considered these human beings ‘undesirable’ - much as Hitler did. As I said, evil generates evil sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes in more overt ways…we all need to be aware of this and help others to be aware, not by shouting or preaching but by lives of goodness…those who are wounded by sin, as we all are, but those who publicly and aggressively promote evil should be prayed for daily and fervently…and hopefully they will return to the ‘field hospital’ which is the Church, for healing and help - and renewed hope.
Nancy Pelosi, Like the bumper sticker says you cannot be “Catholic & Pro Choice”!! This is exactly the sort of thing that Our Lady has said throughout history satan is Always trying to steal souls from God!!! I pray for her and all the pro choicers’ for a change of heart and for them to be freed from the grasp of satan’s ways!!!
George is one of NCR’s resident atheist trolls. His comments are all powerful arguments against the idea of man as the image of a rational benevolent God, and of the concept of universal human worth involved in opposition to abortion—but they are arguments by counter-example, not in their verbal content.
To Celine above, peace to you, and know that the “do not judge” quote by St. Francis you mentioned isn’t being correctly applied to this topic regarding Nancy Pelosi. God is our judge, and He asks that we as the Body of Christ gently lead all sinners back to Him. For the faithful here to not be concerned about Ms. Pelosi’s pro abortion politics would be a disservice to Christ. Blessings!
Bravo Joe Fitzgerald, you are spot on. I too am an ex-democrat that trusted God above my party loyalty. Great post.
Thank you George for posting facts about Planned Parenthood. Too many times I see posts that forget the many good things that Planned Parenthood does.
when will Catholic politicians (like Pelosi and Biden) that encourage abortion be ex-communicated???
Political parties over the life of the nation have held differing and evolving agendas. Now in the early part of the 21st century the Democrat party, under the leadership of President Obama and his Democrat team members such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, HHS Sec.Sebelious, Governor Andrew Cuomo, etc., stands for and is committed to a secular, socialist form of big government with rights and values determined by, and flowing to the people from a centralized power.
President Obama claims, “America is not a Christian nation”. Much historical documentation refutes this claim, see David Barton’s excellent book “Original Intent” as just one example. Christianity, of course, is the religion that shaped America and made her what she is today. The Democrat party’s collectivist ideology is the antithesis of the nation’s founding constitutional principles as well as the principle of subsidiarity of which Pope John Paul II and others have taught. The Democrat party’s unrelenting attacks against the unborn, traditional marriage and religious liberty among other issues confirm its secular agenda.
Now in the 21st century scientific and medical knowledge about the unborn is far greater than back in the last century, including for example ultra-sound, scientific proof the unborn feels pain, etc.. Ten states(others to follow) have passed laws banning abortions of babies at 20 weeks fetal age. The House passed H. R. 1797-Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act last year. 222 Republicans voted in support of such protection, 190 Democrats opposed such protection. A companion bill S-946 has been introduced in the Senate but is being blocked by Reid and other Democrats. The Democrat party is in a time warp back 50 years ago in the last century and is in denial of the advances in medical knowledge and treatment of the unborn in the womb.
Speaking as a Catholic/Christian, a former Democrat and a firm believer in our constitutional principles no Catholic, no Christian should belong to today’s Democrat party. Register with no-party affiliation or with a party more compatible with your beliefs and of course exercise your 1st amendment rights in the public square.
Nancy Pelosi is a disgrace to our nation. When the abortion franchise falls like the house of cards it resembles, when a brave majority finally exerts its voice on this shameful abomination - the wholesale murder of preborn children - Nancy and her ilk will be reviled. Unfortunately, the distorted lens of history may tar all us Catholics with her prideful sin, stating that ‘important Catholic politicians’ supported legal abortion.
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Nancy Pelosi still has time to repent and tell the truth about this most abominable act. I will pray for her conversion.
After all, this will be on Pelosi’s resume, not mine, when she meets her maker. That is something she cannot change. I’d rather not see so many articles and attention given to Mrs. Pelosi’s anti-Catholic stance on this web site but see more article about those who can inspire us to do better or broaden our knowledge in our faith.
When will her Pastor and Bishop take a stand against this hypocrite an refuse to give her communion? Is it because she funnels “pork” to some charity to clear her conscience?
Nancy Polosi, Ted Kennedy, any Democrat so-called Catholic, and even some Church leaders; what’s the difference? In my mind there is no Christian Democrat. When one supports intrinsic evil by voting for it, one is guilty of the same sin. I myself may not make it to heaven, but if by the grace of God do, I will not expect to see any child murder supporter there; it is an impossibility that the Supreme Justice would allow this. Those who choose to live a lie on earth will certainly not see the Father, for He can not abide with sin. There is no humility whatsoever in the hearts of these child killers; they decide good from bad, right from wrong. Sadly, they will awake in a fiery pit.
“Lets pass this health care law so we can find out whats in it.”
Nancy, please the Catechism of the Catholic Church so you can find out whats in it!!
Wasn’t this the same Nancy Pelosi who was trying to teach the American public Catholic theology a few years back? Someone really needs to tell her, before she embarasess herself again the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion is different from what Planned Parenthood teaches.
Isn’t she also the one who said “let’s vote for it and than we’ll find out what’s in it. WOW!
“WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE…”
Ask Pope Francis. He will not judge, nor should we.
Pope Francis told people “follow your conscience…” Nancy Pelosi has obeyed the pope and is following her conscience.
If Pope Francis who is the darling of the world can get awards from the secular media and is the Poster boy on so many magazine covers including the Rolling Stones magazine, why grudge Nancy Pelosi.
However, a few popes not so long ago told us what to expect in the future.
Read: http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13teste.htm
“WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE…”
Ask Pope Francis. He will not judge, nor should we.
Pope Francis told people “follow your conscience…” Nancy Pelosi has obeyed the pope and is following her conscience.
If Pope Francis who is the darling of the world can get awards from the secular media and is the Poster boy on so many magazine covers including the Rolling Stones magazine, why grudge Nancy Pelosi.
However, a few popes not so long ago told us what to expect in the future.
Read: http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13teste.htm
This is also worth looking at:
The ‘Americanism’ heresy
By Russell Shaw
Monday, 13 May 2013
Leo XIII’s critique [of Americanism] is more substantial than apologists for Americanism care to admit. Much of it, in fact, is pertinent to conditions in American Catholicism today.
One set of condemned ideas concerns ranking natural virtues above supernatural ones, along with a division of virtues into “passive” and “active” that gives preference to the latter as more suited to modern times. The Pope says this fosters “contempt … for the religious life” and the disparagement of religious vows. Here, one might say, is a Victorian anticipation of the crisis that has afflicted religious life in the United States over the last half century.
Turning to the origins of Americanism, Leo XIII says it reflects a desire to attract to the Church “those who dissent.” Central to it, he adds, is the idea that the Church — “relaxing its old severity” — must “show indulgence” to new opinions, including even those that downplay “the doctrines in which the deposit of faith is contained.”
Leo XIII’s reply is that how flexible the Church can and should be is not up to individuals but rests with “the judgment of the Church.” Opposing this orthodox view, he notes, is the modern error that everyone could decide for himself, inasmuch as the Holy Spirit today gives individuals “more and richer gifts than in times past” — no less than “a kind of hidden instinct” in religious matters.
All this and more was the Americanism condemned by the Pope.
@Sue “WHY would Planned Parenthood choose Ms. Pelosi? Because she is a Roman Catholic and it is their way of getting back at the Catholic Church for being against abortion/contraceptives.
So THAT`S why it took so long before PP decided to hang a millstone around her neck!
I am truly saddened by the lack of action of our Bishops. Mrs Pelosi immortal soul is in grave danger as are others who feel the same way. Intrinsic evil equates to mortal sin which according to the catechism means damnation. What has become of the case for causing scandal, something I remember as a young Catholic being spoken of plenty. while no one can predict the state of any ones soul except God. We certainly can make them aware of the direction they are headed. I pray every day for all our public figures who take the same position. God is the author of life. “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”.
As I recall, there is a connection between Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and the leader of Planned Parenthood—Mrs. Cecile Richards, who was Nancy’s chief of staff previously. The Margaret Sanger Award ties Nancy’s reputation to a sad cause. Do you pray for her each day, as I do? Perhaps prayers will accomplish more than a lack of respect.
The shame here is not so much on Pelosi. She has shamed herself and the Catholic Church for so long now that no one notices any more. The shame, the heartrending shame of all this, is on the American bishops who refuse to formally and publicly excommunicate this woman. She has become in essence an arch-heretic, and the cowards won’t say boo.
Pope Francis? Hello??
Pelosi, like Mr. Obama, is a tool of Satan. The silence from the Archbishop of San Francisco is deafening….
As I recall, just before C. Richards became the leader in PPFA, she was Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff.
She needs to be excommunicated, plain and simple. The longer this is allowed to last, the more damage she’ll do by making it look like Catholics stand for what she stands for. It encourages lapsed Catholics to continue down their destructive path, and deters lost non-Catholic Christians from exploring what Catholicism has to offer (a lot of evangelicals are strongly pro-life).
The Vatican needs to take a stand on this. Does she take communion without a guilty conscious or does she refrain from the sacrament? Our new Holy Father must address this.
March 11, 2014. “...her public acceptance of what the Church calls intrinsic evil.” If Nancy Pelosi were only ‘accepting’ the law of the land that would be one thing, but she publicly and aggressively promotes and mass slaughter of human babies in the wombs of their mothers; she promotes legalizing the mass killing up through the 9th month of gestation - no limits on the killing. There is a great difference between accepting and publicly promoting evil.
I have heard that she still receives communion in DC….if so then why? she is a public figure and this is a public scandal. For 3 years even though I’m not a public figure I have only received spiritual communion because we are waiting for the tribunal to come to a correct decision on my husbands annulment…we have been married 25 years in a Protestant church but now I’m back at the Catholic Church and he wants to become Catholic. if we are doing the right thing without being public figures even more so Pelosi should be doing the right thing
Truthfully,just from my inexpert observation, Mrs. Pelosi doesn’t always seem to be dealing with a completely full deck, either due to age,health issues, medications, etc. If she’d been a conservative GOP woman, this would have been exploited long ago, but as a Democrat, she gets a pass. And perhaps we should give her a small one, too.
It is disgraceful that Ms. Pelosi is allowed by senior Church Officials to parade around as a devout Catholic while publically acting to the contrary. Now people call themselves Catholic but believe only some of what the Church teaches. This is why we have disunity within the Church. Pelosi should be processed under Canon 915 as a heretic, along with the 26% of dual believers in congress who profess Catholicism and civil duty at the same time. Considering the amount of scandal being created, I believe her Bishop owes it to the other Church Members to sate her position and why she is being protected. She is probably registered in a long term pastoral care program that has no definite end date.
I believe Cardinal Burke has the right position on supporting Canon 915. He believes that politicians who support abortions should not receive Holy Communion. I notice that he was removed from his important position on the Congregation of the Bishops where qualifications for new Bishop applications are considered. He was replaced by Cardinal Wuerle who is a liberal who believes that Communion should be given to almost anyone. The Liberal position of the Pope is beginning to show. It seems if you have money and are important all things are possible. If you don’t qualify here the normal set of rules cover.
Can you believe this! We need to stop criticizing Nancy Pelosi. She needs to be excommunicated immediately. We need to pray with great hope for her conversion.
When the Pope said no improvements for women in the church - they will just have to continue utilizing “The Feminine Genius” , it is precisely because of people like Nancy Pelosi, who fly in the face of it all, and lose the rest of us the support of the authorities we cultivate. Sighhhhh…..with her around , we’ll never be recognized equal as people and equal in God’s sight and full equal powers.
George, what is Planned Parenthood’s “purpose” in your above quotes from their Book? And what is your purpose in telling us all about all the other apparently good things they do? (Jesus speaks of how “a little sour dough affects the whole batch….”) Once a woman enters the doors of Planned Parenthood for whatever reason, she exposes herself to temptation—whether in the moment, or in the future.
George…regardless of the “so called great” thing that pp does it all comes down to the fact that are the largest abortion mill in the country. Since Roe this country has murdered over 55 million babies. I guess you take great pride in that number!
Perhaps Congresswoman Pelosi will bring attention to those unfamiliar with the work of Margaret Sanger (one of Hillary Clinton’s heroes), so that those who care enough to take the time to read about Sanger will come to realize how closely she parallels the work of The Nazi Party of Hitler. Also, perhaps Pelosi should read the Church’s Teachings before she comments on them…Where have I heard that line before…???
George - you are so wrong and so anti-Christian, aka anti-life! Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in this country and the only reason they chose Pelosi is so that uninformed Catholics will think “if Nancy Pelosi says contraception and abortion is OK, I guess it’s OK”. They are uninformed or simply think that they are justified in their misconceptions. Also, PP only “refers” for mammograms, no mammograms are done at their abortion mills. And, just saying “anti-choice” means you are “anti-life” from the get-go. What about the tiny women in the womb who are mere victims if their “mothers” decide to do away with them? You either work for PP or are just an anti-life person in general. You are misleading people and you will be judged accordingly by your MAKER!
Satan has such a hold on Pelosi, Cuomo, Sibelius and of course Obama is in bed with PP, as they donate millions to him. Doesn’t surprise me one bit….
I’m not surprised by this. It won’t mean anything on Judgement Day though…
Adding to a previous poster’s comment, remember the contrasting statements made by Benedict XVI and then Speaker Pelosi during the visit? A columnist from “USA Today” wondered if they were in the same room!
To put this out there, there’s been a stream of Democrats in Congress who’ve announced retirements or decisions not to run for the upcoming elections.
I’d be curious to see how Black people feel about Margaret Sanger. She wanted to get rid of Blacks and now just any ethnicity to rid of is fine in accordance with Planned Parenthood and the likes of Nancy Pelosi. She is no kind of Catholic; other than a bad one. She will have to face God one day, just like we all will. How will she feel when He sends her to Hell - (her own CHOICE to be sent to Hell) for the “right to CHOOSE” to kill human beings in their most defenseless state? Lord, save us!
[On March 27, Planned Parenthood will bestow its highest honor on Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.] WHY would Planned Parenthood choose Ms. Pelosi? Because she is a Roman Catholic and it is their way of getting back at the Catholic Church for being against abortion/contraceptives. The Catholic Church supports her to the extent that the CC still does not refuse her the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Wonder why?...{The peons of the church obey and the elite do as they please}....Do I sound angry over this….YES!
I continue to wonder why her Bishop does not formally excommunicate her. As I understand, she meets all the criteria for excommunication.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope_benedict_strongly_rebukes_pelosi_over_abortion/
At the time, the pope did not allow photos of Pelosi and himself to be taken, so they could not be used by her to affirm her pro-abortion position. If this Catholic would not listen to the Pope, we can assume she has made her deal with the devil for power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics Read it - it’s the same kind of thinking that created the Nazi Genocide and other similar crimes against humanity.
Pray for insight and power to find the good path for all. When she was childbearing, she did not especially support eugenics - I think Majority Leader Pelosi is just a diva - but that our church should censure her unless she stops promoting such murderous ideas.
Just amazingly sad.
Nancy “should” be very proud of herself for stopping (killing) all of those helpless,little beating hearts before they could grow any stronger, and one day challenge her. Nice work, Nanc!
Just a few angry words!! Maybe not considered “charitable words”, yet they are all I have at this moment.
And yet she is a “Catholic is good standing”.
When will she be publically excommunicated? Or did that change in 1970??
Nancy? When you say THEY have this conscience thing Don’t you mean WE have this conscience thing?????
Nancy Pelosi is a BUT CATHOLIC! She says Im a devout Catholic BUT I don’t believe in this conscience thing!!!
Ms. Pelosi should be excommunicated from the the catholic church. If she will not listen to the pope, then any further discussion is pointless.
Thank you Ms. Desmond and NCR for this article. Brothers and sisters we must pray, and pray fervently for Ms. Peolosi’s reversion to Christ, and for the conversion of all donors, patrons, advisers, employees and advocates of Planned Parenthood. Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
Planned Parenthood provides sexual and reproductive health care, education, and information to nearly five million women, men, and adolescents worldwide each year.
Nearly three million women and men in the United States annually visit Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers for trusted health care services and information.
Eighty-two percent of Planned Parenthood health care clients in the U.S. are age 20 and older.
One in five women in the U.S. has visited a Planned Parenthood health center at least once in her life.
Planned Parenthood services help prevent more than 486,000 unintended pregnancies each year.
Planned Parenthood provides 585,000 Pap tests and nearly 640,000 breast exams each year, critical services in detecting cancer.
Planned Parenthood provides nearly 4.5 million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
Three percent of all Planned Parenthood health services are abortion services.
Planned Parenthood affiliates provide educational programs to more than one million young people and adults each year.
And yet she still hasn’t been excommunicated or anthenamized by the Pope. Go Figure
A Planned Parenthood handbook on abortion notes that nearly half of all abortions are for women who describe themselves as born-again Christian, Evangelical Christian, or Catholic.
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Many anti-choice women are convinced that their need for abortion is unique—not like those “other” women—even though they have abortions for the same sorts of reasons. Anti-choice women often expect special treatment from clinic staff. Some demand an abortion immediately, wanting to skip important preliminaries such as taking a history or waiting for blood test results. Frequently, anti-abortion women will refuse counseling (such women are generally turned away or referred to an outside counselor because counseling at clinics is mandatory). Some women insist on sneaking in the back door and hiding in a room away from other patients. Others refuse to sit in the waiting room with women they call “sluts” and “trash.” Or if they do, they get angry when other patients in the waiting room talk or laugh, because it proves to them that women get abortions casually, for “convenience”.