Pelosi stands by abortion comments
Associated Press, Eric Gorski, 8.27.2008
Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Pelosi, said in a statement Tuesday that she “fully appreciates the sanctity of family” and based her views on conception on the “views of Saint Augustine, who said: ‘… the law does not provide that the act (abortion) pertains to homicide, for there cannot yet be said to be a live soul in a body that lacks sensation …”’
Via Drudge.
Transcript of Pelosi’s Meet The Press interview
Statements from American Bishops and Cardinals:
Archbishop Chaput / Cardinal Egan / United States Conference of Catholic Bishops / Archbishop Wuerl
/ Bishop Zubick / Bishop Sheridan
UPDATE:
Archbishop Wuerl has responded (unofficially) to the above statement of explanation given by Pelosi’s spokesman:
Wuerl swiftly denounced Pelosi’s statement, saying, “As the Catechism and early Church documents make clear, abortion is always an evil. That is an unchanging teaching. The question on when the soul enters the body was a philosophical question that grew out of a lack of scientific data at the time of St. Augustine. We have the data today which shows the embryo is human. There no longer is any discussion of whether the unborn is human and so the philosophical discussion of St. Augustine’s time is not relevant today.”
Via the American Papist who has extensive coverage of the controversy.
