Colorado congressional candidate and sitting State Rep. Richard Holtorf ® received a tough grilling this week at the hands of local 9News anchor Kyle Clark over his apparent hypocrisy when it comes to abortion rights.

Holtorf made headlines back in January when he defended paying for his girlfriend’s abortion, despite being an adamant pro-life lawmaker and abortion critic. “Anti-abortion GOP lawmaker praises the impact of the abortion he paid for,” read the headline of a local report by Clark from the beginning of the year.

To his credit, Holtorf sat down with Clark to discuss the issue.

  • RatsOffToYa@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Catholic eh? Someone should contact his local church and remind the pastor of canon law:

    “Canon 1397 §2 is a paragraph of the canon 1397 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church; the paragraph states: “A person who actually procures an abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication”.”

    He was excommunicated the second his payment went through.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Not hard to get back in communion though. Francis made it so any literally priest can absolve you, not just Bishops.