{"id":567632,"date":"2021-06-18T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567632"},"modified":"2021-06-18T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:52:56","slug":"speaker-pelosi-dodges-reporters-question-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosi-dodges-reporters-question-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Pelosi dodges reporter\u2019s question on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fspeaker-pelosi-dodges-reporters-question-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=567632&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 id=\"attachment_2429147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2429147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters just after the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Obama-era health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:42 AM PT \u2013 Friday, June 18, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A reporter asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) about her take on an upcoming Supreme Court case regarding a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference Thursday, the reporter inquired about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/19-1392.html\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/a>, which the Supreme Court will review this fall after a lower court blocked the law earlier this year. Pelosi was asked: is an unborn baby at 15 weeks a human being? Here\u2019s her response:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet me just say that I\u2019m a big supporter of Roe v. Wade. I am a mother of five children in six years. I think I have some standing on this issue as to respecting a woman\u2019s right to choose.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sen, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called Pelosi\u2019s answer \u201cbarbaric\u201d in a tweet Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Barbaric. Speaker Pelosi refuses to say an unborn baby at 15 weeks is a human being.<\/p>\n<p>Science doesn\u2019t matter to today\u2019s radical Dems\u2014it\u2019s all politics. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F4vtyn6RIB\">https:\/\/t.co\/F4vtyn6RIB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1405589322192109578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time the Speaker has answered this way when asked about abortion. In 2015, she was asked if a 20-week-old unborn child is a human and she responded similarly. There was no \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno,\u201d just another personal anecdote. She made the following statement:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn fact, one day many years ago, perhaps before you were born when I was a new member of Congress, as a Catholic and a mom of five, opposing some of the initiatives similar to what\u2013in the same vein as\u2013what we have today, one of the Republicans stood up and said: Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the pope. Yeah, Yeah. That would be true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A San Francisco archbishop slammed Pelosi after her response, stating \u201cno good Catholic can dissent in good conscience\u201d from church teaching on the sanctity of life.<\/p>\n<p>Both Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are prominent Catholic politicians who are at odds with their church on the issue of abortion and have faced criticism from church leaders. More than 200 catholic bishops will gather virtually this week to discuss whether high-profile Catholic politicians who support abortion should be given Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-putin-meeting-putin-hits-u-s-on-ashli-babbitt-and-blm\/\">Biden-Putin Meeting: Putin Hits U.S. On Ashli Babbitt And BLM<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters just after the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Obama-era health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280665,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567632","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\/567632","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}