{"id":492905,"date":"2021-05-10T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=492905"},"modified":"2021-05-10T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:35:11","slug":"fact-check-did-chelsea-clinton-tweet-if-jesus-were-alive-today-hed-be-working-at-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-chelsea-clinton-tweet-if-jesus-were-alive-today-hed-be-working-at-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Chelsea Clinton Tweet, \u2018If Jesus Were Alive Today He\u2019d Be Working At Planned Parenthood\u2019?"},"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\">34<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-chelsea-clinton-tweet-if-jesus-were-alive-today-hed-be-working-at-planned-parenthood%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=492905&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1032870322-scaled-e1620426074977.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeghanRoseOfficial\/posts\/10157647268362583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a tweet from Chelsea Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s daughter, that says, \u201cIf Jesus were alive today he\u2019d be working at Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clinton did not send the tweet, according to a spokesperson for Clinton\u2019s office. The tweet appears to be fabricated.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some Catholic church leaders have called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2021\/04\/28\/biden-catholic-president-bishops-abortion-communion\/\">President Joe Biden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2021\/05\/02\/pelosi-archbishop-communion\/\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, both Catholics, to be denied Holy Communion due to their support of abortion rights, the Washington Post reported. Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone, under whom Pelosi is a parishioner, published a <a href=\"https:\/\/sfarchdiocese.org\/documents\/2021\/5\/Pastoral_Letter_LetterSize_0501.pdf\">statement<\/a> on May 1 saying the sacrament should be withheld from public figures supportive of abortion rights, but did not name anyone specific.<\/p>\n<p>Now some social media users are sharing a screen grab of a tweet allegedly sent by Clinton on May 3 speaking out against Cordileone\u2019s statement. <span><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/10\/13\/fact-check-chelsea-clinton-tweet-barack-obama-married-transgender-woman\/\">(RELATED: No, Chelsea Clinton Did Not Tweet That Barack Obama Married A Transgender Woman)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so wrong of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to deny President Biden and Speaker Pelosi Holy Communion because they support a woman\u2019s God given right to choose,\u201d the purported tweet reads. \u201cIf Jesus were alive today he\u2019d be working at Planned Parenthood. Read your Bible Father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Clinton sending such a tweet. Check Your Fact searched Clinton\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=It%27s%20so%20wrong%20of%20Archbishop%20Salvatore%20Cordileone%20to%20deny%20President%20Biden%20and%20Speaker%20Pelosi%20Holy%20Communion%20because%20they%20support%20a%20woman%27s%20God%20given%20right%20to%20choose%20(from%3AChelseaClinton)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account, but found no instance of the tweet attributed to her in the Facebook post. Additionally, the screen grab shows the tweet was sent through Twitter for Android, but all of Chelsea Clinton\u2019s existing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaClinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets<\/a>\u00a0from the last month were posted using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaClinton\/status\/1389574946880462854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter for iPhone<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaClinton\/status\/1390734240115998730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter WebApp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No similar statement appears on Clinton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/103551633078066\/search\/?q=It%27s%20so%20wrong%20of%20Archbishop%20Salvatore%20Cordileone%20to%20deny%20President%20Biden%20and%20Speaker%20Pelosi%20Holy%20Communion%20because%20they%20support%20a%20woman%27s%20God%20given%20right%20to%20choose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> page, either. Had Clinton actually sent a tweet claiming that if Jesus was alive right now he would work at a Planned Parenthood, media outlets likely would have reported on it, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=chelsea+clinton+jesus+would+work+at+planned+parenthood&#038;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS890US890&#038;oq=chelsea+clinton+jesus+would+work+at+planned+parenthood&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.13592j1j4&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">none have<\/a>, except to debunk the erroneous claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm she never tweeted this,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shorowitz?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sara Horowitz<\/a>, Clinton\u2019s spokesperson, told Check Your Fact in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet from Chelsea Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s daughter, that says, \u201cIf Jesus were alive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277701,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1032870322-scaled-e1620426074977.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Chelsea Clinton Tweet, \u2018If Jesus Were Alive Today He\u2019d Be Working At Planned Parenthood\u2019?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1032870322-scaled-e1620426074977.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Chelsea Clinton Tweet, \u2018If Jesus Were Alive Today He\u2019d Be Working At Planned Parenthood\u2019?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492905","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}