{"id":600027,"date":"2021-07-22T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600027"},"modified":"2021-07-22T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:05:33","slug":"pelosi-says-as-a-devout-catholic-having-five-kids-was-great-for-her-but-poor-women-need-taxpayer-funded-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-says-as-a-devout-catholic-having-five-kids-was-great-for-her-but-poor-women-need-taxpayer-funded-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Says \u2018As A Devout Catholic\u2019 Having Five Kids Was Great For Her, But \u2018Poor Women\u2019 Need Taxpayer-Funded Abortions"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fpelosi-says-as-a-devout-catholic-having-five-kids-was-great-for-her-but-poor-women-need-taxpayer-funded-abortions%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=600027&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\/07\/GettyImages-1329937372-1-scaled-e1626967296663.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that though she was \u201cblessed\u201d to have five children \u201cas a devout Catholic,\u201d \u201cpoor women\u201d need taxpayer funded abortion.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cAs a devout Catholic and mother of five and six years, I feel that God bless my husband and me with our beautiful family, five children in six years almost to the day,\u201d Pelosi said. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She added: \u201cBut it\u2019s not up to me to dictate that that\u2019s what other people should and it is an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that though she was \u201cblessed\u201d to have five children \u201cas a devout Catholic,\u201d \u201cpoor women\u201d need taxpayer funded abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The California Democrat spoke on Capitol Hill where she falsely said that Democrats have not blocked Republican attempts to ban taxpayer funding of abortions before describing taxpayer funded abortion as \u201can issue of health, as an issue of fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an issue of health of many women in America, especially those in lower income situations, and different states, and it is something that has been a priority for many of us a long time,\u201d Pelosi said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/catholic-church-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED: Pelosi\u2019s Archbishop: Unwavering Pro-Abortion Catholics Must Be Denied Communion)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House Speaker then echoed a popular media description of President Joe Biden\u2019s faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a devout Catholic and mother of five and six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family, five children in six years almost to the day,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s not up to me to dictate that that\u2019s what other people should and it is an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pelosi: Bills To Eliminate Taxpayer Funded Abortion \u201cNot Blocked By Democrats\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TvklxUpyWrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s archbishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/archbishop-cordileone-nancy-pelosi-catholic-communion-biden\/\">told the DCNF in May<\/a> that he has had \u201cconversations\u201d with her about abstaining from receiving Holy Communion at mass as a pro-abortion Catholic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/joe-biden-vatican-catholic-church\/\">(RELATED: ANALYSIS: How Legacy Media Misrepresents Catholicism To Defend Biden)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we are dealing with public figures and public examples of cooperation in moral evil, this correction can also take the public form of exclusion from the reception of Holy Communion,\u201d Cordileone wrote in his document, <a href=\"https:\/\/sfarchdiocese.org\/documents\/2021\/5\/Pastoral_Letter_LetterSize_0501.pdf\">Before I Formed You In The Womb, I Knew You<\/a>. \u201cWhen other avenues are exhausted, the only recourse a pastor has left is the public medicine of temporary exclusion from the Lord\u2019s Table. This is a bitter medicine, but the gravity of the evil of abortion can sometimes warrant it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had such conversations with Speaker Pelosi, she knows that I stand by Church teaching, and I know she\u2019s respectful enough not to do anything so provocative,\u201d the archbishop said in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the case of President Biden or any other prominent Catholic, I think what I would do is if I knew that they were coming into the area here and planned to attend mass, I would try to have those conversations as well ahead of time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pelosi&#039;s Archbishop Explains: Can Catholics Support Abortion?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZU9K0eZ7A4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that though she was \u201cblessed\u201d to have five children \u201cas a devout Catholic,\u201d \u201cpoor women\u201d need taxpayer funded abortion.\u00a0 \u201cAs a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"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-600027","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\/600027","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=600027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}