According to the Catholic News Agency, Nancy Pelosi will have an audience with the Pope. I just don't understand. The Catholic Church and Nancy Pelosi have been on opposite sides of the abortion issue for a long time and both have been very vocal about it. I suppose it's good when people of opposing views meet, but I can't even remotely imagine either side giving an inch in this case.
If you remember, in August of last year (as reported in the Catholic News Agency at the time), the archbishops of Denver, New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., along with Bishop William Lori have all publicly criticized the Speaker of the House for her erroneous comments on the Church's abortion teaching. According to that article:
"In a Meet the Press interview on August 24, Pelosi responded to a question from Tom Brokaw about when human life begins, saying "as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition . . . St. Augustine said at three months. We don't know. The point is, is that it shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose."
Cardinal Edward Egan of New York became the latest prelate to denounce Ms. Pelosi's comments when he said on Tuesday, "Like many other citizens of this nation, I was shocked to learn that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America would make the kind of statements that were made to Mr. Tom Brokaw of NBC-TV on Sunday, August 24, 2008."
Not only was Cardinal Egan shocked, but he went on to say that, "What the Speaker had to say about theologians and their positions regarding abortion was not only misinformed; it was also, and especially, utterly incredible in this day and age."
The crystal-clear photographs and films that give people the ability to see babies in their pregnant mothers' wombs make it impossible for anyone with "the slightest measure of integrity or honor" to fail to know what these "marvelous beings manifestly, clearly, and obviously are, as they smile and wave into the world outside the womb," Cardinal Egan asserted."
As you might guess from the name of this website, I am pro-life. If a mother's life is truly in danger, I would be comfortable with a doctor doing anything he needed to do to save it, but a baby is a human being and should be protected as such. Under the Nancy Pelosi leadership as Speaker of the House, it is safer to be a terrorist than a baby in the womb. That's scary.
This is not a religious issue, despite the role the Catholic Church has played in fighting abortion. It is a 'value of life' issue, and all our lives have less value when a baby's life has no value at all.
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