Hoping to match the anti-life weltanschauung of President Barack Obama who, during the campaign, said he wouldn't want his daughter to be "punished with a child," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today proposed boosting funds in the inchoate stimulus package for birth control as a way of helping along the economy.
Once again, fed-up Catholics wait with bated breath to see how the bishops will respond to this latest display of flummery emanating from a freewheeling, non-thinking Catholic politico. This issue isn't so much about Pelosi per se. No one should be surprised by what she said, given her track record. The more pressing question is how the US bishops, particularly San Francisco Archbishop Niederauer, understand their singular role as shepherds of souls and guardians of the integrity of the faith in the nation.
Said Pelosi:
Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
The sad thing, it goes without saying, is that the Obamas, Pelosis and co. are basically advertising, sans reserve, their contempt for "inconvenient" children. They're not even interested in employing coded language anymore. I sense a little arrogance emerging after the '08 victories. This recklessness will cost them down the road.
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