Will Biden Protect Catholics from Pro-Abortion Zealots?

Will the country’s second Catholic president direct his Department of Justice to protect Catholic Mass–goers this Sunday from the thuggery of abortion zealots? It’s a little-known fact that they are protected from such disruption by a federal civil-rights law. Will President Biden — who will be attending Mass himself — choose to ignore it?

Several pro-abortion groups are calling for demonstrations at Catholic churches across the country this Sunday — Mother’s Day — in protest of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that would strike down Roe v. Wade. The group Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights will kick off a “week of action” to protest the not-yet-final Supreme Court opinion with “actions outside of churches” on Sunday. But the threat extends to the interior of churches, too. Militants calling themselves “Ruth Sent Us,” after the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have denounced the Supreme Court as “corrupt and illegitimate.” It wants its followers to “stand at or in a local Catholic Church” on Sunday. “Whether you’re a ‘Catholic for Choice’, ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe,” the group tweeted.

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Andrea Picciotti-Bayer

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is director of the Conscience Project and recipient of the Religious Freedom Institute’s 2025 Religious Freedom Impact Award.

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Will the country’s second Catholic president direct his Department of Justice to protect Catholic Mass–goers this Sunday from the thuggery of abortion zealots? It’s a little-known fact that they are protected from such disruption by a federal civil-rights law. Will President Biden — who will be attending Mass himself — choose to ignore it?

Several pro-abortion groups are calling for demonstrations at Catholic churches across the country this Sunday — Mother’s Day — in protest of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that would strike down Roe v. Wade. The group Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights will kick off a “week of action” to protest the not-yet-final Supreme Court opinion with “actions outside of churches” on Sunday. But the threat extends to the interior of churches, too. Militants calling themselves “Ruth Sent Us,” after the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have denounced the Supreme Court as “corrupt and illegitimate.” It wants its followers to “stand at or in a local Catholic Church” on Sunday. “Whether you’re a ‘Catholic for Choice’, ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe,” the group tweeted.