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Pope to US Speaker Pelosi: Reject abortion support
......it is the duty of catholic politicians to protect life? No. It is the duty of politicians to serve the people who voted for them.
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday told U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic who supports abortion rights, that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life "at all stages of its development."
Pelosi is the first top Democrat to meet with Benedict since the election of Barack Obama, who won a majority of the American Catholic vote despite differences with the Vatican on abortion.
The Vatican released the pope's remarks to Pelosi, saying Benedict spoke of the church's teaching "on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death." That is an expression often used by the pope when expressing opposition to abortion.
......it is the duty of catholic politicians to protect life? No. It is the duty of politicians to serve the people who voted for them.