Edited sentence: "To Ms.:  "The Christian tradition from the earliest days reveals a firm antiabortion attitude.Even during the many centuries when Church penal and penitential practice was based on the theory of delayed animation, the condemnation of abortion was never affected by it.John Connery, S.On August 25, Archbishop Chaput responded, completely dismantling Ms.Pelosi, and to all who might be swayed by her confusion and evasions, reiterating the constant, unchanging, and unequivocal truth that abortion is always a grave moral evil.Pelosi’s confused argument, in part simply by quoting this from the excellent book “Abortion: The Development of the Roman Catholic Perspective” (Loyola, 1977), by Fr.The Bishop of Sioux City, R.The condemnation of abortion did not depend on and was not limited in any way by theories regarding the time of fetal animation.Walker Nickless for example, stated:.Whatever one would want to hold about the time of animation, or when the fetus became a human being in the strict sense of the term, abortion from the time of conception was considered wrong, and the time of animation was never looked on as a moral dividing line between permissible and impermissible abortion