When Pope Francis spoke in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 10, 2018, he was not talking about gangsters when he spoke about a “hit man.” He was talking about abortion.

The pope started by citing the Fifth Commandment: “You shall not kill.”

“One could say that all the evil carried out in the world can be summed up in this: contempt for life,” he said.

“A contradictory approach even permits the termination of human life in the maternal womb, in the name of safeguarding other rights,” he said. “But how can an action that ends an innocent and defenseless life in its blossoming stage be therapeutic, civilized, or simply human?”

“Is it right to hire a hit man in order to solve a problem? One cannot,” he said. “It is not right to ‘do away with’ a human being, however small, in order to solve a problem.

“It is like hiring a hit man to solve a problem,” he said. Three years later, at an assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, he again likened abortion to hiring a hit man—and specifically called it murder.

“In his presentation, Msgr. Paglia referred to something: but there is the throwing away of children that we do not want to welcome, with that abortion law that sends them back to their sender and kills them,” said the pope. “Today this has become a ‘normal’ thing, a habit that is very bad; it is truly murder.

“In order to truly grasp this,” he said, “perhaps asking ourselves two questions may help: Is it right to eliminate, to end a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hit man to solve a problem? Abortion is this.”

On Sept. 15, 2021, while on a flight, Pope Francis also told reporters that abortion is murder and like hiring a hit man.

“Abortion is more than an issue. Abortion is murder,” he said, according to a Catholic News Agency transcript.

“It’s a human life, period,” he said. “This human life must be respected. This principle is so clear. And to those who can’t understand it I would ask two questions: Is it right, is it fair, to kill a human life to solve a problem? Scientifically it is a human life. Second question: Is it right to hire a hit man to solve a problem?”

This Jan. 1, Pope Francis delivered a homily that defended the unborn.

“For this reason,” he said, “‘I ask for a firm commitment to respect for the dignity of human life from conception to natural death, so that each person may cherish his or her own life and all may look with hope to the future.’”

When Pope Francis passed away on Monday, some Democrat leaders in Congress issued statements honoring his life—but not mentioning his passionate commitment to the right to life.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a Catholic ,yet voted against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act and voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act. She issued a statement of more than 270 words. “His Holiness Pope Francis personified our sacred responsibility in the Gospel of Matthew to honor the spark of divinity in the least of our brethren—championing the poor, the worker, the refugee, and the immigrant,” she said.

She did not mention the pope’s defense of the unborn.House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a statement of more than 170 words. He spoke of the pope’s defense of “the least” and “the vulnerable”— but not the unborn.

“Pope Francis dedicated his time on Earth to uplifting the least, the lost, and the left behind,” said Jeffries.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who chairs the Senate Democratic Steering and Policy Committee and voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act, issued a statement recalling when Pope Francis visited Congress a decade ago.

“I think the best way to (address abortion) is not a patchwork of state laws, but to codify Roe v. Wade, put it into law,” she said.

That would be like giving hit men federal protection to commit murder.

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