The Present Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was interviewed on CBS about her thoughts on when babies should receive human rights. On August 16, 2008 President Obama responded that he cannot completely answer that question because it is “above his pay grade.” Pelosi however, proclaims herself as a “ardent practicing Catholic” and that the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition. She then goes on to say that at is a choice for a women to make because “no one can say when life begins.”
It does not take “long study” to discover that the Catholic Church has consistently taught for twenty centuries that abortion is gravely wrong. The Catechism of the Catholic Church cites two of the oldest Christian texts outside of the New Testament, the Didache and the Epistle of Barnabas, both of which condemn abortion explicitly. For all of us, regardless of our religious or political affiliation, the evil of abortion challenges the fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded. The Declaration of Independence speaks of certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are not three stand-alone rights; each right presumes the one before it, with the right to life as the most basic. Our right to happiness is limited by another’s right to liberty. And our right to liberty is limited by another’s right to life. Nancy Pelosi has done little to find an honest national resolution to the question of abortion.
It does not take “long study” to discover that the Catholic Church has consistently taught for twenty centuries that abortion is gravely wrong. The Catechism of the Catholic Church cites two of the oldest Christian texts outside of the New Testament, the Didache and the Epistle of Barnabas, both of which condemn abortion explicitly. For all of us, regardless of our religious or political affiliation, the evil of abortion challenges the fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded. The Declaration of Independence speaks of certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are not three stand-alone rights; each right presumes the one before it, with the right to life as the most basic. Our right to happiness is limited by another’s right to liberty. And our right to liberty is limited by another’s right to life. Nancy Pelosi has done little to find an honest national resolution to the question of abortion.
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