When a reporter asked at White House press briefing on Thursday how President Biden reconciled his Catholic faith with his support for legal abortion, press secretary Jen Psaki discounted any notion of an ideological conflict.
The male reporter persisted. Psaki, who generally has good relations with journalists, suddenly indicated she’d had enough.It was a rare moment of acrimony in a White House press briefing room that has largely reverted to pre-Trump mores of civility.More than that, though, the brief but telling exchange was indicative of how fraught the issue of reproductive rights is to the nation’s second Catholic president .
The White House blasted the Supreme Court’s decision, issuing a Thursday statement calling it an “unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights” that would have a “devastating impact.”Progressives are concerned that other states could model their own anti-abortion laws after the one just passed in Texas, circumventing the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nearly a half-century ago.
“Of course we’re worried,” Psaki said of that possibility. The White House has said it is looking for ways to protect the rights allowed by the Roe ruling, though it provided no details about how it may do so. Biden’s support for abortion rights has made him anathema to conservative Catholics. In June, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishopsin favor of drafting a resolution that would rebuke Catholic officials who support abortion rights and continue to seek Communion. Biden was clearly the target of the vote, with one bishop charging him with advancing “the most radical pro-abortion agenda in history.”
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