From Rev. Frank Pavone, president of Priests for Life:
“In a June 13, 2013, press briefing, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic leader, was asked, “What is the moral difference between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth?” Pelosi refused to answer the question and chose instead to mock the reporter who asked it. Shamefully, she then took refuge in assertions about how seriously she practices her Catholic faith.
I wrote an open letter to Pelosi, asking her to stop misrepresenting the Catholic faith. I requested that she answer that abortion question honestly, admitting, if necessary, that she simply does not accept what the Church teaches. Tens of thousands of others signed the letter. Pelosi responded with contempt, saying that the letter was not “intellectual” in its approach but “hysterical.” And in my subsequent response, I pointed out that the beginning of an intellectual approach to this discussion is to answer the simple question that started the discussion…
The fact is that we all have to answer the question that was posed to Pelosi: what is the difference between killing a child just before birth or right afterward?
There is no way out of the question for the abortion industry or for any of us.”
Rev. Frank Pavone Abolishing Abortion: How You Can Play a Part in Ending the Greatest Evil of Our Day (Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson Books, 2015) 157
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