Nancy Pelosi Confronted by Reporter on Abortion Views

[riversedge]

Source: abc





By BENJAMIN SIEGEL

Oct 1, 2015, 1:14 PM ET



PHOTO: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 5, 2014.J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended her position on abortion Thursday, responding forcefully to a confrontational question about whether a fetus is a human being at her weekly news conference.

"Leader Pelosi, in reference to funding of Planned Parenthood, is an unborn baby with a human heart and a human liver a human being?" asked the reporter, who did not identify himself.

"I am a devout, practicing Catholic," Pelosi replied. "A mother of five children. When my baby was born, my fifth child, my oldest child was six years old.

"I think I know more about this subject than you, with all due respect," she continued. "I do not intend to respond to your question which has no basis in what public policy we do here." .............

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nancy-pelosi-defends-stance-abortion/story?id=34179647

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Whow-----what a grand answer to that smart mouthed 'reporter"!! Good going Leader Nancy!

[Scalded Nun]

1. Don't do them any favors

They have an agenda and even if you present your case they will just twist the words to suit their purpose and their audience.

Best thing...Frame their question in a way that shows how stupid/irrelevant/uninformed/biased/inappropriate it is and then further state that you will not respond to those type of questions.

These people aren't reporters, they are hit men/women furthering an agenda or their careers.

[Lars39]

2. Slightly OT: Five kids in six years!

I'm tired just thinking about that.

[riversedge]

3. Most likely before easy access to contraceptives. IMHO

[Lars39]

4. Yes.

And her answer highlights how important family planning can be.

[riversedge]

5. my mom had 10 of us (Catholic) bing bing bing--had 6 then stopped

for about 5 years (we did not learn about it till we were adults--she had a prolapsed uterus and needed surgery)--but hen 4 more. and she worked the dairy farm with my dad. it was just the way it was before BC

[Lars39]

6. Goodness.

Sheer stamina! And working a dairy farm on top of that! Tough woman.

[riversedge]

7. She turned 90 last Saturday. Had a nice

party for her. YUP--some days I feel older than she does. anyway. nice talking to you. Need to get supper on table for family.

[Lars39]

8. Sweet! Me, too about supper! :-)

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. Perfect answer, Nancy!

[rockfordfile]

10. That wasn't a reporter

That wasn't a reporter it was a right wing hack.

[question everything]

11. Great response

We need to stop being nice to every idiot who wants his name and byline in the news.

[mcar]

12. Good for her!

A gotcha question in every sense of the word.

[mountain grammy]

13. Yes, Nancy!!!

[Sunlei]

14. I would like her to take the orange mans place. She would make them get work done.

for once!

[smirkymonkey]

15. Good job Nancy!

[WestSeattle2]

16. Verbal smack downs are so very entertaining.

[Stellar]

17. Kick! Some guys need to learn something about women before they open their mouth. nt