Fr. Pavone’s Letter to Nancy PelosiWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Dear Mrs. Pelosi,
 Last
Thursday, June 13, you were asked a question in a press briefing that
you declined to answer. The question was, “What is the moral difference
between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and
aborting her moments before birth?”
Given
the fact that the Gosnell case has been national news for months now,
and that Congress, where you serve as House Democratic Leader, was about
to have a vote on banning abortion after 20 weeks fetal age, this was a
legitimate question.
Instead
of even attempting to answer the question, you resorted to judgmental
ad hominem attacks on the reporter who asked it, saying, “You obviously
have an agenda. You’re not interested in having an answer.”
Mrs. Pelosi, the problem is that you’re not interested in giving an answer.
Your
refusal to answer this question is consistent with your failure to
provide an answer to a similar question from me and the members of my
Priests for Life staff. Several years ago, we visited your office with
the diagrams of dismemberment abortion at 23 weeks, and asked the simple
question, “When you say the word ‘abortion,’ is this what you mean?” In
response, nothing but silence has emanated from your office.
In
what way is this refusal to address an issue of such national
importance consistent with the leadership role you are supposed to be
exercising? Public servants are supposed to be able to tell the
difference between serving the public and killing the public.
Apparently, you can’t. Otherwise, you would have been able to explain
the difference between a legal medical procedure that kills a baby
inside the womb and an act of murder — for which Dr. Gosnell is now
serving life sentences — for killing the same baby outside the womb.
Moreover,
you stated at the press briefing on June 13, “As a practicing and
respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about
this. I don’t think it should have anything to do with politics.”
With
this statement, you make a mockery of the Catholic faith and of the
tens of millions of Americans who consider themselves “practicing and
respectful Catholics” and who find the killing of children — whether
inside or outside the womb — reprehensible.
You
speak here of Catholic faith as if it is supposed to hide us from
reality instead of lead us to face reality, as if it is supposed to
confuse basic moral truths instead of clarify them, and as if it is
supposed to help us escape the hard moral questions of life rather than
help us confront them.
Whatever
Catholic faith you claim to respect and practice, it is not the faith
that the Catholic Church teaches. And I speak for countless Catholics
when I say that it’s time for you to stop speaking as if it were.
Abortion
is not sacred ground; it is sacrilegious ground. To imagine God giving
the slightest approval to an act that dismembers a child he created is
offensive to both faith and reason.
And
to say that a question about the difference between a legal medical
procedure and murder should not “have anything to do with politics”
reveals a profound failure to understand your own political
responsibilities, which start with the duty to secure the God-given
right to life of every citizen.
Mrs.
Pelosi, for decades you have gotten away with betraying and
misrepresenting the Catholic faith as well as the responsibilities of
public office. We have had enough of it. Either exercise your duties as a
public servant and a Catholic, or have the honesty to formally renounce
them.
Sincerely,
Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life
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