By Matt Hadro title via Revolver
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday responded to her archbishop, who had said an abortion bill she is working to pass is tantamount to “child sacrifice.”
The Women’s Health Protection Act, legislation that would override state abortion laws and allow for abortions in some cases throughout all nine months of pregnancy, is set to be voted on in the House tomorrow, Sept. 24. Pelosi declared earlier this month that she would bring the bill up for a vote in the House. Her local ordinary, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, said the bill “is nothing short of child sacrifice,” in a statement on Tuesday.
When asked about Cordileone’s comments at her Thursday press briefing in the U.S. Capitol, Pelosi responded that “it’s none of our business how other people choose the size and timing of their families.”
“The archbishop of the city of that area, of San Francisco, and I had a disagreement about who should decide this [family size and timing]. I believe that God has given us a free will to honor our responsibilities,” she said in response to the question from Erik Rosales, Capitol Hill correspondent for EWTN News Nightly.
The House will vote on the abortion legislation on Friday. Pelosi previewed the vote at her briefing, noting that “this is a very exciting day for some of us in the Congress.”
“Every woman everywhere has a constitutional right to basic reproductive health, yet for years that has been questioned by some,” she said.
Pelosi brought the bill up for a vote following Texas’ pro-life “heartbeat” bill going into effect Sept. 1. The law restricted most abortions following the detection of a fetal heartbeat, which can occur as early as six weeks into pregnancy. It is enforced through private civil lawsuits.
“The Texas law goes beyond a discussion of a woman’s right to choose. It’s about vigilantes and bounty hunters, and something that is so un-American. And it has evoked a response, okay? It’s unconstitutional and unjust,” Pelosi stated on Thursday.
The Women’s Health Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), recognizes the “statutory right” of women to have abortions, and would block many state pro-life laws, such as ultrasound and waiting period requirements before abortions. It overrides prohibitions on “pre-viability” abortions, and allows for late-term abortions without “meaningful” limits, the U.S. bishops’ conference has warned, thus imposing “abortion on demand nationwide at any stage of pregnancy.”
In addition, the bill would require taxpayer funding of abortion and could force health care workers to participate in abortions against their consciences, the conference has said.
Archbishop Cordileone on Tuesday said that the bill “is surely the type of legislation one would expect from a devout Satanist, not a devout Catholic.” He called on Catholics to fast and pray for the bill’s defeat.
It was late term partial birth abortion, right up to the moment of birth and even beyond, that has incited the most restrictive abortion laws of late. As with anything else, Democrats can’t leave well enough alone; they can’t accept restrictions on abortion, so they have to push it to the point of human sacrifice. Now, their death cult draws the unwanted attention of a Supreme Court that is not a leftist rubber stamp.
The left loves restricting REAL rights of others but cannot stand to have their phony “rights” restricted in the least.
maybe the libs and demorats should be present for a late term abortion or an attempted live birth abortion that has its neck snapped or drowned. late term abortions, the body comes out in pieces parts, an arm than a leg, the thoracic and abdominal cavity is butchered to assist in evacuation. bar fly polosi is no Catholic, pure evil and a traitor to America.
I believe that God has given us a free will to honor our responsibilities,” Nancy said.
Yup, she’s right.
We are free to choose to do right and get life everlasting or to choose to do wrong and be on the path to everlasting destruction.
As a country in opposition to God’s Kingdom, America allows all sorts of wrong things, like abortion.
It is LEGAL here to abort your child.
Doesn’t make it right.
Nancy might want to add that, by exercising your free will to do wrong you are setting yourself on the road to destruction, not life…..and she is helping you do just that.
Therefore Nancy might want to review another verse, Jesus’ words this time: “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.” Matthew 18: 6.
Would Pelosi vote to have water cut off to the Central Valley Farmers over a worthless 3 Inch fish(Delta Smelt)while supporting a form of legalized Murder Aortion