On Women’s Equality Day, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to regulating abortion as “sinful,” which goes against her Catholic religion.
“It’s absolutely awful that this is such an attack on women of color and women from lower-income households.
On August 26, the California Democrat referred to it as “sinful” at a panel discussion on “reproductive health.”
It is improper for them to be in a position to instruct women on how to conduct their lives and take care of their bodies. But the inequity of it all is evil.
Pelosi made her remarks while attending a “roundtable conversation on reproductive health” at the University of California San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus.
She spoke just after another Democrat from California who also describes herself as Catholic.
Rep. Jackie Speier made the following statement at the event: “The reality that we now have a federal government that is requiring pregnancy — government-mandated pregnancy — flies in the face of every human freedom on which this nation is established.”
The representative, who brought up her own prior abortion, declared her support for extending the FDA’s existing 10-week use ban on abortion drugs.
The majority of the panel’s comments were in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, which allowed abortion on demand across the country, and empower individual states to limit abortion as they see fit.
Extreme MAGA [Make America Great Again] Republicans are inflicting unimaginable pain on women and their families, Pelosi warned at the start of the panel.
“Emboldened by the radical Supreme Court, they are doing so,” she said. In fact, American women today don’t have the same level of freedom that their mothers and grandparents had.
Pelosi has often supported abortion throughout the years, invoking her Catholicism in the process.
Pelosi no longer has access to Holy Communion in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, according to an announcement made in May by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. He was succeeded by a number of additional archbishops and bishops.
The Catholic Church views abortion, which involves the killing of a human being, as a serious sin.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “Human life must be valued and preserved entirely from the moment of conception.”
“A human being must be recognized as possessing the rights of a person from the initial moment of his existence, among which is the inalienable right of every innocent being to life.”
Abortion is seen by the Church as a “crime against human life,” and having one or assisting another in having one is grounds for excommunication.
The catechism states that “direct abortion, that is, abortion willed either as a purpose or a means, is profoundly adverse to the moral law.”
The Catholic Church also extends charity and forgiveness to individuals who have participated in abortion.
The catechism states that instead of “making explicit the seriousness of the crime committed, the irreparable suffering done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole community,” the Church “does not aim to limit the reach of compassion.”