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"Life begins at conception," Biden said. "That's the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life."
Pelosi’s Archbishop: ‘No One Can Claim to be a Devout Catholic and Condone the Killing of Innocent Human Life’
(CNSNews.com) - San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, whose archdiocese includes all of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district, issued a statement on Thursday rebuking Pelosi for a statement she made at her press briefing that day explaining why she is pushing for federal funding of abortion.
At her briefing, Pelosi had an exchange with a reporter about the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal 2022 that is moving through the House and that, as the Appropriations Committee puts it, includes "repealing the discriminatory Hyde Amendment."
The Hyde Amendment is language that has long been included in annual federal appropriations laws to prohibited federal funding of abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at risk.
In explaining why she wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment and, thus, allow federal funding of abortion, Pelosi told the reporter that she is a “devout Catholic.”
“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 it's not up to me to dictate that that's what other people should do,” Pelosi said. “And it's an issue of fairness and justice for poor women in our country.”
Later that day, Archbishop Cordileone put out a statement. It was headlined: “Statement of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defending efforts to permit federal funding of elective abortions.”
“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,” said the archbishop.
“The right to life is a fundamental–the most fundamental–human right, and Catholics do not oppose fundamental human rights,” he said. “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?” said the archbishop. “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 are the only ones who provide poor women life-giving alternatives to having their babies killed in their wombs,” he said. “I cannot be prouder of my fellow Catholics who are so prominent in providing this vital service. To them I say: you are the ones worthy to call yourselves ‘devout Catholics’!”
Mississippi Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed her opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday defending the constitutionality of her state’s 15-week abortion ban.
In defense of her state law, Fitch is also urging the Court to overrule its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
The Court announced in May it will decide in the Mississippi case “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional” in the United States.
The question poses the most significant challenge since 1992 to the right to abortion created by the Supreme Court in Roe.
Fitch and Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart stated in the brief:
Under the Constitution, may a State prohibit elective abortions before viability? Yes. Why? Because nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion. A prohibition on elective abortions is therefore constitutional if it satisfies the rational basis review that applies to all laws.
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This case is made hard only because Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), hold that the Constitution protects a right to abortion.
Fitch and Stewart observed that much has changed in the nation since Roe was decided in 1973:
Today, adoption is accessible and on a wide scale women attain both professional success and a rich family life, contraceptives are more available and effective, and scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability. States should be able to act on those developments. But Roe and Casey shackle States to a view of the facts that is decades out of date.
Asserting that Roe and Casey “have proven hopelessly unworkable,” have “inflicted significant damage,” and are egregiously wrong,” Mississippi’s brief continued by stating that both decisions “are thus at odds with the straightforward, constitutionally grounded answer to the question presented.”
“So the question becomes whether this Court should overrule those decisions,” they continued. “It should. The stare decisis case for overruling Roe and Casey is overwhelming.”
The case will be argued in the fall, with a decision expected by June 2022.
The case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, in the Supreme Court of the United States.
‘Epitome of Hypocrisy’: Archbishop Slams ‘Devout Catholic’ Nancy Pelosi For Supporting Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s archbishop slammed her in a statement on Thursday after Pelosi (D-CA) used her Catholic faith to explain why she supports taxpayer-funded abortions.
“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,” Pelosi said during her weekly press briefing at the Capitol on Thursday. “But… 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 poor women in our country.”
Pelosi, who is a longtime supporter of abortion, said making taxpayer-funded abortion legal has been a longtime “priority” for Democrats. Even though Pelosi does not think she should “dictate” whether women have abortions, she said she supports making taxpayers pay for abortions — even those who do not agree — to help women in “lower income situations” as an “issue of health.”
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who is Pelosi’s local ordinary, said in response on Thursday that for Pelosi “to use the smokescreen of abortion as an issue of health and fairness to poor women is the epitome of hypocrisy.”
“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,” Cordileone said.
He pointed out Pelosi’s warped sense of equity, questioning whether it would be more fair to enable all women to have children, rather than present abortion as the only solution to women in poverty.
“What about the health of the baby being killed? What about giving poor women real choice, so they are supported in choosing life? This would give them fairness and equality to women of means, who can afford to bring a child into the world,” Cordileone said.
He concluded:
It is people of faith who run pro-life crisis pregnancy clinics; they are the only ones who provide poor women life-giving alternatives to having their babies killed in their wombs. I cannot be prouder of my fellow Catholics who are so prominent in providing this vital service. To them I say: you are the ones worthy to call yourselves “devout Catholics!”
Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, delivers a homily at the 2016 Steubenville Conference. ( Steubenville Conferences/Wikimedia Commons)
Cordileone has previously spoken out against Pelosi for her stance on abortion. In January, Cordileone said “our land is soaked with the blood of the innocent…” and that Pelosi “does not speak for the Catholic Church,” after she said pro-life Americans who voted for Donald Trump over abortion were “willing to sell the whole democracy down the river for that one issue.”
The House Appropriations Committee recently approved the draft of a spending bill that would allow the federal government to pay for elective abortions in Medicaid, effectively overturning the Hyde Amendment.
The Hyde Amendment was first enacted in 1976, three years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide via Roe v. Wade. Lawmakers later updated the policy to add exceptions for cases involving rape, incest, or maternal mortality risk. The amendment is not permanent, so it must be attached to individual appropriations bills for it to take effect.
The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) condemned the pro-abortion bills introduced by the House Committee on Appropriations introduced last week.
“[The Hyde Amendment] has saved nearly 2.5 million babies and mothers in difficult circumstances from the tragedy of abortion,” USCCB stated. “Billions of taxpayer dollars could be used to pay for abortion” without these protections, they insisted.
Self-professed Catholic President Joe Biden and his supporters have vowed to eliminate the Hyde Amendment and, consequently, force Americans to fund abortion, even those for whom such an action would violate their faith beliefs and moral standards, Breitbart News previously reported. Biden released his Fiscal Year 2022 budget, which did not include Hyde Amendment, a measure he once reportedly supported.
The White House Attack on Free Speech
What type of speech will Biden ask Facebook to suppress next?
"They're killing people."
That was the simple declarative sentence President Joe Biden uttered in response to a question a reporter asked him as he left the White House on Friday.
"On COVID misinformation, what's your message to platforms like Facebook?" the reporter had shouted as the president was walking toward Marine One.
Biden turned and walked directly toward the reporter.
"They're killing people," he said.
"I mean, it really — look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated," he said. "And they're killing people."
At her regular briefing the day before, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had explained how the administration was working with social media companies, including Facebook, in the hope of getting them to adopt what she called "a robust enforcement strategy" against COVID-19 misinformation.
"Can you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in policing misinformation?" a reporter asked Psaki. "Has the administration been in touch with any of these companies? And are there any actions that the federal government can take to ensure their cooperation, because we've seen, from the start, there's not a lot of action on some of these platforms?"
"Sure," Psaki responded. "Well, first, we are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team, given, as (Surgeon General Vivek) Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic."
Then she made a very specific claim which is memorialized at 17 minutes and 30 seconds into C-SPAN's online video of the briefing.
"We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation," Psaki said.
Psaki went on to explain that the administration had "proposed changes" for Facebook and other social media companies.
"There are also proposed changes that we have made to social media platforms, including Facebook, and those specifically are four key steps," Psaki said.
The first one, she said, is "that they measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform. Facebook should provide, publicly and transparently, data on the reach of COVID vaccine misinformation."
The second change the White House proposed for Facebook and other social media companies was what Psaki called "a robust enforcement strategy" against those who engage in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
"Second, we have recommended — proposed that they create a robust enforcement strategy that bridges their properties and provides transparency about the rules," said Psaki.
"There's about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," Psaki said. "All of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including ones that Facebook owns."
Psaki did not name these 12 people.
The next thing the White House wanted, Psaki explained, was for Facebook and other social media companies "to move more quickly to remove" posts deemed "harmful."
"Third, it's important to take faster action against harmful posts," said Psaki. "As you all know, information travels quite quickly on social media platforms; sometimes it's not accurate. And Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts. Posts that will be within their policies for removal often remain up for days. That's too long. The information spreads too quickly."
The final thing the White House wants Facebook to do is "promote" what the White House calls "quality information."
"Finally, we have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm," said Psaki. "Facebook has repeatedly shown that they have the leverage to promote quality information. We've seen them effectively do this in their algorithm over low-quality information and they've chosen not to use it in this case. And that's certainly an area that would have an impact.
"So, these are certainly the proposals," Psaki said. "We engage with them regularly and they certainly understand what our asks are."
Obviously, a person can make a true statement about a particular subject or a false one. They can also make a statement that presents a reasonable hypothesis based on facts, or that presents an unreasonable hypothesis based on the same facts.
Or they can make an unreasonable hypothesis based on no facts or on blatant falsehoods.
But whatever the merits or demerits of a person's thoughts and conclusions, when they express those thoughts and conclusions, they are invariably engaging in speech.
What does Biden want Facebook to do with speech related to COVID-19?
As summarized by Psaki last week, the administration is "flagging problematic posts for Facebook" that the administration believes are spreading "disinformation" and that "Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove."
Then, as Psaki put it: "We have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm."
Now, put this in the context of a subject other than COVID-19 where human lives are also at risk.
In its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood said that in fiscal year 2019, its affiliates did 354,871 "abortion procedures."
In a 2012 vice presidential debate with former Rep. Paul Ryan, as this column has noted before, Biden presented a scientific fact as if it were a religious position.
"Life begins at conception," Biden said. "That's the church's judgment. I accept it in my personal life."
On its Facebook page, by contrast, Planned Parenthood presents abortion as a form of "health care" provided by "heroes."
"Abortion is an essential part of health care," Planned Parenthood said on Facebook on July 17.
"Abortion providers are heroes," it said in a March 11 posting.
Does Biden — who said life begins at conception — believe it is misinformation to call the deliberate taking of a human life "health care" and those who do that taking "heroes"?
Does he believe Facebook needs to take action "against harmful posts" that promote the taking of unborn lives?
Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com.
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