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Pelosi: GOP is ‘politicizing’ abortion issue blaming Dems for violence against pro-life advocates

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday said Republicans were “politicizing” the abortion issue by blaming Democratic rhetoric for a spate of violent attacks on crisis pregnancy centers and Catholic churches around the country.

“Let me just say this. A woman has a right to choose to live up to her responsibility. It’s up to her, her doctor, her family, her husband, her significant other and her God. This talk of politicizing all of this, I think, is something uniquely American and not right,” the California Democrat said at her weekly press conference.

“Other countries, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, have had legislative initiatives to expand a woman’s right to choose — very Catholic countries.