{"id":1519464,"date":"2022-06-16T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519464"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:04:15","slug":"very-catholic-nancy-pelosi-wont-say-whether-she-agrees-with-the-pope-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-catholic-nancy-pelosi-wont-say-whether-she-agrees-with-the-pope-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Catholic\u2019 Nancy Pelosi Won\u2019t Say Whether She Agrees With The Pope On Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvery-catholic-nancy-pelosi-wont-say-whether-she-agrees-with-the-pope-on-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/nancy-pelosi-responds-to-her-archbishops-communion-ban\/\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-CA) dodged a direct question on Thursday regarding whether or not she agreed with two Popes\u2019 assertions that abortion is murder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/pelosi-on-mothers-day-its-disrespectful-to-not-allow-women-to-have-abortions\/\">Pelosi<\/a> fielded several questions during her weekly press conference \u2014 including one from CNS News intern Janey Olohan about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/pro-abortion-pelosi-describes-herself-as-devout-practicing-catholic-jokes-pro-lifers-would-like-to-throw-me-out\/\">Speaker\u2019s public stance<\/a> on abortion compared to the views of the late Pope John Paul II and the current Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nancy Pelosi refused answering whether she agreed with Pope Francis and former Pope John Paul II that &#8220;abortion is murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Question by our intern, Janey Olohan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xxckq5hzwf\">pic.twitter.com\/Xxckq5hzwf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNSNews (@cnsnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnsnews\/status\/1537471121724940293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olohan prefaced her question by noting that at different times, both Popes John Paul II and Francis had referred to abortion as \u201cmurder,\u201d and then asked, \u201cDo you agree with Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II that abortion is murder?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I agree on is that whatever I believe or agree with the popes on is not necessarily what public policy should be in the United States, as people make their own judgments, honor their own responsibilities, and tend to the needs of their families,\u201d Pelosi replied.<\/p>\n<p>Another reporter in the room followed Olohan\u2019s question with query about recent attacks against pro-life groups, noting that some were concerned that Democrats\u2019 failure to condemn those attacks might be contributing to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, let me just say this. A woman has a right to choose, to live up to her responsibility,\u201d Pelosi said. \u201cIt\u2019s up to her doctor, her family, her husband, her significant other, and her God. This talk of \u2014 politicizing all of this is something uniquely American and not right..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi went on to argue that many \u201cCatholic countries\u201d \u2014 specifically naming Ireland, Mexico, and Italy \u2014 had introduced legislation expanding abortion access.<\/p>\n<p>She then made it clear she was finished discussing the topic, adding, \u201cI\u2019m a very Catholic person and I believe in every woman\u2019s right to make her own decisions. Any other questions on another subject because I\u2019m not going to be talking about that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called Pelosi\u2019s remarks \u201cdisgraceful,\u201d adding, \u201cSpeaker Pelosi just refused to condemn the radical leftist group that has claimed responsibility for a string of violent attacks and threats against pregnancy centers across the nation. Biden\u2019s Department of Justice must stop ignoring these crimes and take action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Pelosi just refused to condemn the radical leftist group that has claimed responsibility for a string of violent attacks and threats against pregnancy centers across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice must stop ignoring these crimes and take action. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/elRn6Xe7HJ\">pic.twitter.com\/elRn6Xe7HJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1537489188014247938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dodged a direct question on Thursday regarding whether or not she agreed with two Popes\u2019 assertions that abortion is murder. Pelosi fielded several questions during her weekly press conference \u2014 including one from CNS News intern Janey Olohan about the Speaker\u2019s public stance on abortion compared to the views of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1519521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}