Card. Egan responds to Pelosi

One of our anonymous readers kindly alerted me Edward Cardinal Egan's response to the recent statements of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the teachings of the Catholic Church on abortion.

His Emminence was "shocked" to learn of Pelosi's words and said they were "misinformed" and "utterly incredible."

Cardinal Egan further said:

We are blessed in the 21st century with crystal-clear photographs and action films of the living realities within their pregnant mothers. No one with the slightest measure of integrity or honor could fail to know what these marvelous beings manifestly, clearly, and obviously are, as they smile and wave into the world outside the womb. In simplest terms, they are human beings with an inalienable right to live, a right that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is bound to defend at all costs for the most basic of ethical reasons. They are not parts of their mothers, and what they are depends not at all upon the opinions of theologians of any faith. Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being “chooses” to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.