Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Pelosi Watch


What's Happened Since the Meeting?


The following report was sent out by James Todd of Pewsitter.com on October 13. 

Late last year Speaker Pelosi made statements about the teachings of the Church with regard to abortion and when life begins. Several bishops responded to correct Pelosi's false statements. There was sufficient outrage among faithful Catholics to prompt Pelosi's bishop, Archbishop Niederauer of San Francisco, to meet with her in February of this year. The result of that meeting? Pelosi's spokesman confirmed that a meeting had taken place and that Pelosi was not about to change her position on abortion. 

Here is a small sampling of activities by Pelosi since February: 

On Embryonic Stem Cell Research (April of 2009) 
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed critics of federal funding of life-destroying embryonic stem-cell research with this argument: "We've had a situation where it's faith or science — take your pick," 

Regarding Same-Sex Marriage in California (May) 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) deemed the California Supreme Court's decision today to uphold Proposition 8 as "deeply disappointing" in its stripping of marriage rights from same-sex couples. 

Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Thru UNFPA (June 2009) 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that taxpayers should be forced to fund the UNFPA even though it has been shown to work closely with Chinese population control officials who subject women to forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations. 

TaxPayer Funded Abortions in Washington DC (July) 
Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that includes language overturning the longstanding ban on forcing taxpayers to fund abortions in the nation's capital. The vote on the bill came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi manipulated a vote on rules prohibiting an amendment to stop it. 

On Health Care Reform (August) 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has subjected herself to criticism for authoring an editorial in USA Today in which she calls Americans who oppose the pro-abortion health care plan before Congress "un-American."


From http://www.calcatholic.com/