San Francisco archbishop: Nancy Pelosi to be denied Communion because she supports abortion rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released earlier this month, 55 percent of Catholics in the United States want the Supreme Court to uphold Roe. Catholic teaching opposes abortion, however, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last year debated the meaning of Communion and whether it is appropriate to withhold the sacrament from Catholic politicians such as Pelosi or President Joe Biden who support abortion rights.
42% :Democrats and abortion rights advocates have responded with alarm in recent weeks following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn the right to abortion established in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
38% : He did so, he said, after Pelosi invoked her religion in defending the right to abortion.
30% : Francis, however, reiterated that abortion is "murder."

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