House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was visibly unhappy at a press conference Thursday when she was asked to explain how abortions performed at approximately five months differ from the grisly murders committed by Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
At the press conference, Pelosi had commented on a Republican bill that would ban abortions at 20 weeks when she called on John McCormack, a reporter for conservative magazine The Weekly Standard.
"What is the moral difference between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth?" McCormack asked the congresswoman.
"You're probably enjoying that question a lot," Pelosi replied. "I can see you savoring it."
The congresswoman, who is infamously pro-abortion, then preached at the reporter that she is a mother of five children, then she brought religion into the topic.
"As a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this," Pelosi said. "I don't think it should have anything to do with politics and that's where you're taking it, and I'm not going there."
What did Pelosi mean by "sacred ground?"
Marjorie Dannenfelser of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List feels Pelosi was saying abortion is sacred and that is what she is protecting as a Catholic.
"I'm actually myself a practicing Catholic and I guess I would say that the church has taught for a very long time that life is sacred," says Dannenfelser. "And she's out there trying to protect that abortion ground, and really is more happy to protect the institution of abortion than she is the individuals who are suffering from it."
The exchange was picked up by the Drudge Report and other online media outlets. On National Review Online, Ramesh Ponnuru wrote that Pelosi claimed the bill would ban abortion, which he pointed out is untrue.
"McCormack, note, did not bring religion into the question," Ponnuru wrote. "He asked her to justify her position on a question of public policy. She chose not to try."
In the press conference, Pelosi moved on to another question. But the reporter still got in the last word: "It was a simple question," McCormack told her. "You didn't answer."
Contact: Charlie Butts, Source: OneNewsNow.com
