Did Nancy Pelosi Send Money To Other Countries To Fund Abortions

Washington D.C., Jul 22, 2021 / 12:01 pm

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday defended efforts to permit federal funding of elective abortions, and cited her own Cosmic faith while doing and then.

A draft spending bill that was recently approved past the House Appropriations Committee would allow for federal funding of elective abortions in Medicaid. It excludes the Hyde Subpoena, federal policy since 1976 which prohibits funding of most abortions in Medicaid.

In remarks at her weekly printing briefing in the U.Due south. Capitol on Th, Pelosi said she supports a repeal of Hyde because it is "an result of health, of many women in America, especially those in lower-income situations and in different states."

"And it is something that has been a priority for many of the states for a long time," Pelosi said.

She cited her faith, noting that every bit "a devout Catholic and female parent of five in six years, I experience that God blessed my hubby and me with our beautiful family, five children in 6 years almost to the day."

She added that she would not presume to make decisions for other women, regarding their families and abortion.

Pelosi said that "it's not upwards to me to dictate that that's what other people should do, and information technology [funding of abortion in Medicaid] is an issue of fairness and justice for poorer women in our state."

President Joe Biden did non include the Hyde Amendment in his budget request to Congress for the 2022 fiscal year; leading Democrats have pushed for an cease to the policy in recent years. The Labor, Health and Man Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill recently advanced out of the Business firm Appropriations Committee without the subpoena language.

The Hyde Amendment, named for the late Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, was first enacted in 1976, three years afterward the U.South. Supreme Courtroom'due south 1973 Roe 5. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Exceptions were later on added to the policy for cases involving rape, incest or a maternal mortality hazard.

Since the subpoena is non permanent law, it must be attached to individual appropriations bills, or it will not take effect.

The U.S. bishops' conference has chosen on lawmakers to preserve the Hyde Amendment, and is currently circulating a petition in support of the pro-life policy which currently has more than 130,000 signatures.

In January, Pelosi said pro-lifers who voted for former President Donald Trump because of the abortion issue gave her "great grief as a Catholic," and also defended use of contraception. In response, her local ordinary - Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco - said that she "does not speak for the Catholic Church."

During a podcast with former senator and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Pelosi said that pro-lifers who chose to vote for Trump "were willing to sell the whole democracy downwardly the river for that one issue."

In a subsequent statement, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, said that "No Catholic in good conscience tin can favor ballgame."

"Our state is soaked with the claret of the innocent, and it must finish," Cordileone said.

Pelosi has long supported legal abortion. In June, she told a reporter that "I am a big supporter of Roe five. Wade. I am a mother of v children in vi years. I retrieve I take some continuing on this issue, as to respecting a woman's right to choose."

In May, Pelosi said she was "pleased" with a Vatican letter of the alphabet to the U.Due south. bishops which addressed Communion for pro-ballgame politicians. She claimed the Vatican instructed the bishops not to exist "divisive" on the event.

In response, Archbishop Cordileone said the Vatican actually promoted "dialogue" between bishops and pro-ballgame politicians, "to assistance them empathise the grave evil they are helping to perpetrate and back-trail them to a modify of heart."

"I'm happy to know that Speaker Pelosi said she is pleased with the letter," Archbishop Cordileone said. "Speaker Pelosi's positive reaction" to the alphabetic character, he noted, "raises hope that progress can be made in this virtually serious matter."

Kate Scanlon