House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., doubled down on her claim that Republicans against abortion would let women “die on the floor,” and also criticized pro-life Roman Catholics doctors for having “this conscience thing” that prevents them from supporting abortion.
Pelosi maintained that Republicans supporting conscience exemptions for doctors who oppose abortions for religious reasons. “They would [let women die on the floor]! Again, whatever their intention is, this is the effect,” Pelosi told the Washington Post.
Continuing in that vein, she criticized the conscience exemptions for pro-life Roman Catholic doctors, who follow their church’s official teaching on the issue. “[T]he truth is what I said. I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it,” Pelosi noted, but added that “they have this conscience thing” that she believes should not be allowed to limit women’s access to abortion.
The conscience provision Pelosi finds so abhorrent “ensures that state laws “protecting conscience rights, restricting or prohibiting abortion or coverage or funding of abortion, or establishing procedural requirements on abortion” are not abrogated by Obamacare,” according to Life News.
