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As pro-abortion Members of Congress act to get rid of the Hyde Amendment, a pro-life rider than has prevented federal taxpayers from funding most abortions since 1976, pro-life congressmen have fought back by trying to force a vote to ban taxpayer-funded abortion. However, they have been blocked in the U.S. House each time . For the first time, Hyde was not included in the president’s proposed budget — a decision House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended in her weekly press conference, while referring to herself as a “devout Catholic.”
Calling it an issue of “health” for American women, Pelosi said that forcing taxpayers to fund abortion has been a priority to “many of us” for a long time, adding:
As a devout Catholic and mother of five in six years, I feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family – five children in six years almost to the day. But that may not be what we should – it’s not up to me to dictate that that’s what other people should do, and it’s an issue of fairness and justice for poorer women in our country.
But Pelosi’s statement is in direct opposition to 2,000 years of doctrine from the Catholic Church, which has consistently held that all human lives are precious and worth protecting.
Pelosi’s own archbishop, the Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, responded promptly and directly, telling the Catholic News Agency, “Let me repeat: no one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it.” “To use the smokescreen of abortion as an issue of health and fairness to poor women is the epitome of hypocrisy: what about the health of the baby being killed? What about giving poor women real choice, so they are supported in choosing life?” he said in a statement . “This would give them fairness and equality to women of means, who can afford to bring a child into the world. It is people of faith who run pro-life crisis pregnancy clinics; they […]
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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