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CV NEWS FEED // National Public Radio (NPR) last week featured a Missouri nun who is backing an effort to add a pro-abortion initiative to her state’s November ballot.
NPR’s Katia Riddle interviewed Sister Barbara for the taxpayer-funded network’s long-running news program “All Things Considered.”
“NPR is not using Sister Barbara’s last name,” Riddle said during the newscast. “She fears retribution from her local archdiocese for publicly expressing her beliefs on reproductive rights.”
“She doesn’t agree with the Church’s position that abortion is a sin and should be illegal,” the NPR reporter pointed out.
In the interview, Sister Barbara justified her support for abortion: “I just don’t see it in just real absolute terms.”
Per Riddle, the nun also claimed the Bible “does not say anything explicit about abortion.”
Sister Barbara added: “I want to put a sticker on the car that says ‘Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one.’”
Riddle noted that the nun is “supporting an effort in Missouri to enshrine abortion rights in the [Missouri] Constitution.”
“Several other nuns interviewed for this story said they feel the same,” the reporter added. “One was even collecting signatures to put the measure on the November ballot, though she didn’t want to talk about it on the record.”
Later on in the segment, Riddle said Sister Barbara is “hoping this abortion debate is a relatively brief distraction from what she sees as the faith’s fundamental aspirations.”
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NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham wrote that what made the segment even “more shocking” was NPR “touting … someone who is financially supported by the Church, and who should be accepting of all the Church teachings.”
“Church officials might want to know who this nun is, and why she would publicly – well, not all the way – bite the hand that’s feeding her,” Graham added.
NewsBusters is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC) dedicated to exposing left-wing media bias.
In his analysis, Graham also referred to a recent Pew Research Center study that found about 60% of self-identified American Catholics support abortion. Graham stated:
Leftists love to believe that churches should be run like clubs – the majority rules. So they’ll make a big deal out of polls, like the Pew Research Center finding six of ten Catholics disagree with the church’s opposition to abortion. They do not ask self-identified Catholics whether they actually go to church on Sundays, or if they stopped the minute they became an adult. You would get a more conservative result
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