Judge for yourselves her sanity:

Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those – one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

Sorry, Madam Speaker, but bringing a child into the world always generates more activity than ending its life in the womb.

Talk about a hullabaloo! And her apologists made it worse, as Brendan Daly, her spokesman, said on Tuesday, that she had based her view of conception on the “views of Saint Augustine, who said: ‘… the law does not provide that the act (abortion) pertains to homicide, for there cannot yet be said to be a live soul in a body that lacks sensation …”’

However, several Catholic leaders have corrected Pope Pelosi, who is now likely to never qualify for NC health insurance, as Cardinal Edward Egan of New York, Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William Lori, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, issued statements correcting Pelosi.

Said Rigali and Lori:

“Uninformed and inadequate theories about embryology” in the Middle Ages led “some theologians to speculate that specifically human life capable of receiving an immortal soul may not exist until a few weeks into pregnancy. While in canon law these theories led to a distinction in penalties between very early and later abortions, the Church’s moral teaching never justified or permitted abortion at any stage of development.”